RFC 6437: IPv6 Flow Label Specification

This document specifies the IPv6 Flow Label field and the minimum requirements for IPv6 nodes labeling flows, IPv6 nodes forwarding labeled packets, and flow…

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Outgoing relationships (3 related RFCs)

Updates — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Updates — RFC 2205: Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) -- Version 1 Functional Specification
Obsoletes — RFC 3697: IPv6 Flow Label Specification

Incoming relationships (20 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8754: IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6438: Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and Link Aggregation in Tunnels
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6434: IPv6 Node Requirements
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8900: IP Fragmentation Considered Fragile
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8656: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7098: Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Load Balancing in Server Farms
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6674: Gateway-Initiated Dual-Stack Lite Deployment
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9415: On the Generation of Transient Numeric Identifiers
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7657: Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and Real-Time Communication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6936: Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8724: SCHC: Generic Framework for Static Context Header Compression and Fragmentation
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9008: Using RPI Option Type, Routing Header for Source Routes, and IPv6-in-IPv6 Encapsulation in the RPL Data Plane
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9040: TCP Control Block Interdependence
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9343: IPv6 Application of the Alternate-Marking Method
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6436: Rationale for Update to the IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8159: Keyed IPv6 Tunnel
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7600: IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - A Stateless Solution (4rd)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9516: Active Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) for Service Function Chaining (SFC)