RFC 8656: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)

If a host is located behind a NAT, it can be impossible for that host to communicate directly with other hosts (peers) in certain situations. In these…

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Outgoing relationships (49 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 5766: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 6156: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extension for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Normative reference — RFC 8446: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
Normative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Normative reference — RFC 3168: The Addition of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP
Normative reference — RFC 2474: Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
Normative reference — RFC 792: Internet Control Message Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 6347: Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2
Normative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 7525: Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Normative reference — RFC 6437: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Normative reference — RFC 8305: Happy Eyeballs Version 2: Better Connectivity Using Concurrency
Normative reference — RFC 8489: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normative reference — RFC 7350: Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) as Transport for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normative reference — RFC 7915: IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm
Normative reference — RFC 7065: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Uniform Resource Identifiers
Normative reference — RFC 7982: Measurement of Round-Trip Time and Fractional Loss Using Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3550: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
Informative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Informative reference — RFC 3711: The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
Informative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Informative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Informative reference — RFC 4821: Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 4787: Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP
Informative reference — RFC 8445: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal
Informative reference — RFC 6056: Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization
Informative reference — RFC 3424: IAB Considerations for UNilateral Self-Address Fixing (UNSAF) Across Network Address Translation
Informative reference — RFC 7413: TCP Fast Open
Informative reference — RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5
Informative reference — RFC 7657: Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and Real-Time Communication
Informative reference — RFC 8311: Relaxing Restrictions on Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Experimentation
Informative reference — RFC 5128: State of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Communication across Network Address Translators (NATs)
Informative reference — RFC 5482: TCP User Timeout Option
Informative reference — RFC 6062: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Extensions for TCP Allocations
Informative reference — RFC 6263: Application Mechanism for Keeping Alive the NAT Mappings Associated with RTP / RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) Flows
Informative reference — RFC 7983: Multiplexing Scheme Updates for Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) Extension for Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Informative reference — RFC 5928: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Resolution Mechanism
Informative reference — RFC 7478: Web Real-Time Communication Use Cases and Requirements
Informative reference — RFC 7635: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Extension for Third-Party Authorization
Informative reference — RFC 8155: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) Server Auto Discovery

Incoming relationships (4 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8835: Transports for WebRTC
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9622: An Abstract Application Programming Interface (API) for Transport Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9623: Implementing Interfaces to Transport Services
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9028: Native NAT Traversal Mode for the Host Identity Protocol