RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification

This document describes the format of a set of control messages used in ICMPv6 (Internet Control Message Protocol). ICMPv6 is the Internet Control Message…

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Outgoing relationships (14 related RFCs)

Updates, Informative reference — RFC 2780: IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers
Obsoletes — RFC 2463: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Normative reference — RFC 792: Internet Control Message Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2461: Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
Normative reference — RFC 3978: IETF Rights in Contributions
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2401: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 4203: OSPF Extensions in Support of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)
Informative reference — RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Informative reference — RFC 3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture

Incoming relationships (80 related RFCs)

Showing 50 of 80 related RFCs.

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 4884: Extended ICMP to Support Multi-Part Messages
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6347: Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6275: Mobility Support in IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6550: RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5085: Pseudowire Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV): A Control Channel for Pseudowires
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9147: The Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Protocol Version 1.3
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8201: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6296: IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5798: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6554: An IPv6 Routing Header for Source Routes with the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7084: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6092: Recommended Simple Security Capabilities in Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) for Providing Residential IPv6 Internet Service
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4942: IPv6 Transition/Co-existence Security Considerations
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5461: TCP's Reaction to Soft Errors
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8926: Geneve: Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6744: IPv6 Nonce Destination Option for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for IPv6 (ILNPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7401: Host Identity Protocol Version 2 (HIPv2)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7676: IPv6 Support for Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6743: ICMP Locator Update Message for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for IPv6 (ILNPv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6745: ICMP Locator Update Message for the Identifier-Locator Network Protocol for IPv4 (ILNPv4)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Packets for End-Host to End-Host Communication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5837: Extending ICMP for Interface and Next-Hop Identification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7112: Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains
Normatively referenced by — RFC 4950: ICMP Extensions for Multiprotocol Label Switching
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6204: Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8656: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6998: A Mechanism to Measure the Routing Metrics along a Point-to-Point Route in a Low-Power and Lossy Network
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8956: Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7588: A Widely Deployed Solution to the Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Fragmentation Problem
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9568: Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9777: Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6791: Stateless Source Address Mapping for ICMPv6 Packets
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6946: Processing of IPv6 "Atomic" Fragments
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8883: ICMPv6 Errors for Discarding Packets Due to Processing Limits
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9634: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) for Deterministic Networking (DetNet) with the IP Data Plane
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9914: Root-Initiated Routing State in the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7600: IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - A Stateless Solution (4rd)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8678: Enterprise Multihoming using Provider-Assigned IPv6 Addresses without Network Prefix Translation: Requirements and Solutions
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9062: Framework and Requirements for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9511: Attribution of Internet Probes
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9631: The IPv6 Compact Routing Header (CRH)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9899: Extensions to the YANG Data Model for Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8754: IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5102: Information Model for IP Flow Information Export