RFC 7094: Architectural Considerations of IP Anycast

This memo discusses architectural implications of IP anycast and provides some historical analysis of anycast use by various IETF protocols.

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Outgoing relationships (41 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 4861: Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)
Informative reference — RFC 4033: DNS Security Introduction and Requirements
Informative reference — RFC 4862: IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
Informative reference — RFC 5905: Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3775: Mobility Support in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 2373: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 3056: Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds
Informative reference — RFC 6480: An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing
Informative reference — RFC 6275: Mobility Support in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 4213: Basic Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
Informative reference — RFC 4732: Internet Denial-of-Service Considerations
Informative reference — RFC 3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 1884: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 1546: Host Anycasting Service
Informative reference — RFC 3068: An Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers
Informative reference — RFC 2439: BGP Route Flap Damping
Informative reference — RFC 4786: Operation of Anycast Services
Informative reference — RFC 2526: Reserved IPv6 Subnet Anycast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 2893: Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers
Informative reference — RFC 4942: IPv6 Transition/Co-existence Security Considerations
Informative reference — RFC 2030: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI
Informative reference — RFC 2101: IPv4 Address Behaviour Today
Informative reference — RFC 2991: Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast Next-Hop Selection
Informative reference — RFC 3964: Security Considerations for 6to4
Informative reference — RFC 4924: Reflections on Internet Transparency
Informative reference — RFC 4610: Anycast-RP Using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)
Informative reference — RFC 4330: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI
Informative reference — RFC 3882: Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks
Informative reference — RFC 4778: Operational Security Current Practices in Internet Service Provider Environments
Informative reference — RFC 5001: DNS Name Server Identifier (NSID) Option
Informative reference — RFC 4339: IPv6 Host Configuration of DNS Server Information Approaches
Informative reference — RFC 6071: IP Security (IPsec) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Document Roadmap
Informative reference — RFC 2902: Overview of the 1998 IAB Routing Workshop
Informative reference — RFC 3258: Distributing Authoritative Name Servers via Shared Unicast Addresses
Informative reference — RFC 4892: Requirements for a Mechanism Identifying a Name Server Instance
Informative reference — RFC 5909: Securing Neighbor Discovery Proxy: Problem Statement
Informative reference — RFC 4085: Embedding Globally-Routable Internet Addresses Considered Harmful
Informative reference — RFC 6382: Unique Origin Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) per Node for Globally Anycasted Services

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 9293: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8811: DDoS Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Architecture
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7421: Analysis of the 64-bit Boundary in IPv6 Addressing