RFC 9790: IANA Registry and Processing Recommendations for the First Nibble Following a Label Stack

This document creates a new IANA registry (called the "Post-Stack First Nibble" registry) for the first nibble (4-bit field) immediately following an MPLS…

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Outgoing relationships (24 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 4928: Avoiding Equal Cost Multipath Treatment in MPLS Networks
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 791: Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding
Normative reference — RFC 4385: Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3) Control Word for Use over an MPLS PSN
Normative reference — RFC 5462: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field
Normative reference — RFC 6790: The Use of Entropy Labels in MPLS Forwarding
Normative reference — RFC 2780: IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers
Normative reference — RFC 8296: Encapsulation for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) in MPLS and Non-MPLS Networks
Normative reference — RFC 6391: Flow-Aware Transport of Pseudowires over an MPLS Packet Switched Network
Normative reference — RFC 8964: Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane: MPLS
Normative reference — RFC 9789: MPLS Network Actions (MNAs) Framework
Normative reference — RFC 8469: Recommendation to Use the Ethernet Control Word
Informative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 7432: BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
Informative reference — RFC 5586: MPLS Generic Associated Channel
Informative reference — RFC 4762: Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) Signaling
Informative reference — RFC 4761: Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling
Informative reference — RFC 4446: IANA Allocations for Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3)
Informative reference — RFC 8300: Network Service Header (NSH)
Informative reference — RFC 7274: Allocating and Retiring Special-Purpose MPLS Labels
Informative reference — RFC 9546: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) for Deterministic Networking (DetNet) with the MPLS Data Plane

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 9789: MPLS Network Actions (MNAs) Framework