RFC 7510: Encapsulating MPLS in UDP

This document specifies an IP-based encapsulation for MPLS, called MPLS-in-UDP for situations where UDP (User Datagram Protocol) encapsulation is preferred to…

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Outgoing relationships (16 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 6347: Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2
Normative reference — RFC 3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding
Normative reference — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Normative reference — RFC 5332: MPLS Multicast Encapsulations
Normative reference — RFC 6936: Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums
Normative reference — RFC 6935: IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets
Informative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Informative reference — RFC 2914: Congestion Control Principles
Informative reference — RFC 4023: Encapsulating MPLS in IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Informative reference — RFC 6438: Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and Link Aggregation in Tunnels
Informative reference — RFC 5640: Load-Balancing for Mesh Softwires
Informative reference — RFC 4817: Encapsulation of MPLS over Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Version 3

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9025: Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane: MPLS over UDP/IP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8663: MPLS Segment Routing over IP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8660: Segment Routing with the MPLS Data Plane
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9012: The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9181: A Common YANG Data Model for Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9347: Aggregation and Fragmentation Mode for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Its Use for IP Traffic Flow Security (IP-TFS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9317: Operational Considerations for Streaming Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9469: Applicability of Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) to Network Virtualization over Layer 3 (NVO3) Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9889: A Realization of Network Slices for 5G Networks Using Current IP/MPLS Technologies