RFC 6636: Tuning the Behavior of the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for Routers in Mobile and Wireless Networks

The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) are the protocols used by hosts and multicast routers to exchange their…

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Outgoing relationships (9 related RFCs)

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 4607: Source-Specific Multicast for IP
Normative reference — RFC 5790: Lightweight Internet Group Management Protocol Version 3 (IGMPv3) and Multicast Listener Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 5213: Proxy Mobile IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 6275: Mobility Support in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 5944: IP Mobility Support for IPv4, Revised
Informative reference — RFC 4605: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) / Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)-Based Multicast Forwarding ("IGMP/MLD Proxying")
Informative reference — RFC 6224: Base Deployment for Multicast Listener Support in Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Domains

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7390: Group Communication for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9166: A YANG Data Model for Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7161: Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) Multicast Handover Optimization by the Subscription Information Acquisition through the LMA (SIAL)