RFC 9251: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Proxies for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)

This document describes how to support endpoints running the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) or Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) efficiently for…

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Outgoing relationships (15 related RFCs)

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 4364: BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Normative reference — RFC 3376: Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 3
Normative reference — RFC 3810: Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 2710: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 7432: BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
Normative reference — RFC 6513: Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Normative reference — RFC 6514: BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Normative reference — RFC 2236: Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2
Normative reference — RFC 7606: Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
Normative reference — RFC 4684: Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Normative reference — RFC 6625: Wildcards in Multicast VPN Auto-Discovery Routes
Informative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 4541: Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping Switches

Incoming relationships (7 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9252: BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9572: Updates to EVPN Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) Procedures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9624: EVPN Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9625: EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9856: Multicast Source Redundancy in EVPNs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9469: Applicability of Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) to Network Virtualization over Layer 3 (NVO3) Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 10018: Multicast and Ethernet VPN with Segment Routing Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) and Ingress Replication