RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router

This document updates RFCs 6775 and 8505 in order to enable proxy services for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery by Routing Registrars called "Backbone Routers".…

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Outgoing relationships (26 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 8505: Registration Extensions for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Neighbor Discovery
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 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 8201: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Normative reference — RFC 4429: Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 6059: Simple Procedures for Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 7772: Reducing Energy Consumption of Router Advertisements
Normative reference — RFC 7048: Neighbor Unreachability Detection Is Too Impatient
Normative reference — RFC 7559: Packet-Loss Resiliency for Router Solicitations
Informative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Informative reference — RFC 5340: OSPF for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 6275: Mobility Support in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 7432: BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
Informative reference — RFC 6550: RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Informative reference — RFC 6830: The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
Informative reference — RFC 4389: Neighbor Discovery Proxies (ND Proxy)
Informative reference — RFC 5415: Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol Specification
Informative reference — RFC 4903: Multi-Link Subnet Issues
Informative reference — RFC 8928: Address-Protected Neighbor Discovery for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Informative reference — RFC 6606: Problem Statement and Requirements for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing
Informative reference — RFC 8273: Unique IPv6 Prefix per Host

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9030: An Architecture for IPv6 over the Time-Slotted Channel Hopping Mode of IEEE 802.15.4 (6TiSCH)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9008: Using RPI Option Type, Routing Header for Source Routes, and IPv6-in-IPv6 Encapsulation in the RPL Data Plane
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9010: Routing for RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) Leaves
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9032: Encapsulation of 6TiSCH Join and Enrollment Information Elements
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9119: Multicast Considerations over IEEE 802 Wireless Media
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9034: Packet Delivery Deadline Time in the Routing Header for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9685: Listener Subscription for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast and Anycast Addresses
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9898: Neighbor Discovery Considerations in IPv6 Deployments