RFC 6281: Understanding Apple's Back to My Mac (BTMM) Service

This document describes the implementation of Apple Inc.'s Back to My Mac (BTMM) service. BTMM provides network connectivity between devices so that a user…

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Outgoing relationships (13 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 5246: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 1918: Address Allocation for Private Internets
Informative reference — RFC 2782: A DNS RR for specifying the location of services (DNS SRV)
Informative reference — RFC 2136: Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)
Informative reference — RFC 4193: Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 4120: The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
Informative reference — RFC 5996: Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
Informative reference — RFC 2845: Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (TSIG)
Informative reference — RFC 4423: Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 4556: Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos (PKINIT)

Incoming relationships (7 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 6763: DNS-Based Service Discovery
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6762: Multicast DNS
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8765: DNS Push Notifications
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6886: NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7393: Using the Port Control Protocol (PCP) to Update Dynamic DNS
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8764: Apple's DNS Long-Lived Queries Protocol
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6538: The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Experiment Report