RFC 9119: Multicast Considerations over IEEE 802 Wireless Media

Well-known issues with multicast have prevented the deployment of multicast in 802.11 (Wi-Fi) and other local-area wireless environments. This document…

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Outgoing relationships (21 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 2131: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Informative reference — RFC 826: An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware
Informative reference — RFC 4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
Informative reference — RFC 6763: DNS-Based Service Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 6762: Multicast DNS
Informative reference — RFC 7761: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
Informative reference — RFC 6282: Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks
Informative reference — RFC 8415: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Informative reference — RFC 4541: Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches
Informative reference — RFC 8505: Registration Extensions for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Neighbor Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 9030: An Architecture for IPv6 over the Time-Slotted Channel Hopping Mode of IEEE 802.15.4 (6TiSCH)
Informative reference — RFC 4286: Multicast Router Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router
Informative reference — RFC 5796: Authentication and Confidentiality in Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Link-Local Messages
Informative reference — RFC 7450: Automatic Multicast Tunneling
Informative reference — RFC 5757: Multicast Mobility in Mobile IP Version 6 (MIPv6): Problem Statement and Brief Survey
Informative reference — RFC 6970: Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Internet Gateway Device - Port Control Protocol Interworking Function (IGD-PCP IWF)
Informative reference — RFC 8777: DNS Reverse IP Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) Discovery

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 9365: IPv6 Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (IPWAVE): Problem Statement and Use Cases
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9898: Neighbor Discovery Considerations in IPv6 Deployments