RFC 7450: Automatic Multicast Tunneling

This document describes Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT), a protocol for delivering multicast traffic from sources in a multicast-enabled network to…

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Outgoing relationships (23 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture
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 4787: Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP
Normative reference — RFC 4607: Source-Specific Multicast for IP
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Informative reference — RFC 1191: Path MTU discovery
Informative reference — RFC 792: Internet Control Message Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 1112: Host extensions for IP multicasting
Informative reference — RFC 2663: IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations
Informative reference — RFC 4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
Informative reference — RFC 1981: Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
Informative reference — RFC 2710: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 3552: Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations
Informative reference — RFC 2236: Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2
Informative reference — RFC 1546: Host Anycasting Service
Informative reference — RFC 6936: Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums
Informative reference — RFC 4786: Operation of Anycast Services
Informative reference — RFC 6935: IPv6 and UDP Checksums for Tunneled Packets

Incoming relationships (5 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 8777: DNS Reverse IP Automatic Multicast Tunneling (AMT) Discovery
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9601: Propagating Explicit Congestion Notification across IP Tunnel Headers Separated by a Shim
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8313: Use of Multicast across Inter-domain Peering Points
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9706: TreeDN: Tree-Based Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Live Streaming to Mass Audiences
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9119: Multicast Considerations over IEEE 802 Wireless Media