RFC 7844: Anonymity Profiles for DHCP Clients

Some DHCP options carry unique identifiers. These identifiers can enable device tracking even if the device administrator takes care of randomizing other…

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Outgoing relationships (20 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 3315: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 2131: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 3633: IPv6 Prefix Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) version 6
Normative reference — RFC 4941: Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 4702: The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Client Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) Option
Informative reference — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Informative reference — RFC 2132: DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions
Informative reference — RFC 7217: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)
Informative reference — RFC 7721: Security and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms
Informative reference — RFC 4704: The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) Client Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) Option
Informative reference — RFC 4361: Node-specific Client Identifiers for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Version Four (DHCPv4)
Informative reference — RFC 6059: Simple Procedures for Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 7824: Privacy Considerations for DHCPv6
Informative reference — RFC 4578: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Options for the Intel Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE)
Informative reference — RFC 6355: Definition of the UUID-Based DHCPv6 Unique Identifier (DUID-UUID)
Informative reference — RFC 3925: Vendor-Identifying Vendor Options for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 4 (DHCPv4)
Informative reference — RFC 7819: Privacy Considerations for DHCP
Informative reference — RFC 7618: Dynamic Allocation of Shared IPv4 Addresses

Incoming relationships (11 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9096: Improving the Reaction of Customer Edge Routers to IPv6 Renumbering Events
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9243: A YANG Data Model for DHCPv6 Configuration
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9463: DHCP and Router Advertisement Options for the Discovery of Network-designated Resolvers (DNR)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7824: Privacy Considerations for DHCPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9099: Operational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7969: Customizing DHCP Configuration on the Basis of Network Topology
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9915: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7943: A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers (IIDs) with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8117: Current Hostname Practice Considered Harmful
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8882: DNS-Based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) Privacy and Security Requirements
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8947: Link-Layer Address Assignment Mechanism for DHCPv6