RFC 8660: Segment Routing with the MPLS Data Plane

Segment Routing (SR) leverages the source-routing paradigm. A node steers a packet through a controlled set of instructions, called segments, by prepending…

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Outgoing relationships (19 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 3031: Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding
Normative reference — RFC 8402: Segment Routing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 5462: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic Class" Field
Normative reference — RFC 3443: Time To Live (TTL) Processing in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks
Normative reference — RFC 7274: Allocating and Retiring Special-Purpose MPLS Labels
Informative reference — RFC 5036: LDP Specification
Informative reference — RFC 5331: MPLS Upstream Label Assignment and Context-Specific Label Space
Informative reference — RFC 8665: OSPF Extensions for Segment Routing
Informative reference — RFC 8667: IS-IS Extensions for Segment Routing
Informative reference — RFC 7855: Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING) Problem Statement and Requirements
Informative reference — RFC 8287: Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping/Traceroute for Segment Routing (SR) IGP-Prefix and IGP-Adjacency Segment Identifiers (SIDs) with MPLS Data Planes
Informative reference — RFC 7510: Encapsulating MPLS in UDP
Informative reference — RFC 8666: OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment Routing
Informative reference — RFC 8661: Segment Routing MPLS Interworking with LDP
Informative reference — RFC 8403: A Scalable and Topology-Aware MPLS Data-Plane Monitoring System
Informative reference — RFC 4817: Encapsulation of MPLS over Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol Version 3

Incoming relationships (24 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9256: Segment Routing Policy Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8664: Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) Extensions for Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8665: OSPF Extensions for Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8667: IS-IS Extensions for Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8669: Segment Routing Prefix Segment Identifier Extensions for BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8661: Segment Routing MPLS Interworking with LDP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9830: Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9855: Topology Independent Fast Reroute Using Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8662: Entropy Label for Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING) Tunnels
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9020: YANG Data Model for Segment Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9491: Integration of the Network Service Header (NSH) and Segment Routing for Service Function Chaining (SFC)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9831: Segment Type Extensions for BGP Segment Routing (SR) Policy
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9717: A Routing Architecture for Satellite Networks
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9860: Multicast-Only Fast Reroute (MoFRR) Based on Topology Independent Loop-Free Alternate (TI-LFA) Fast Reroute
Normatively referenced by — RFC 10018: Multicast and Ethernet VPN with Segment Routing Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) and Ingress Replication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8964: Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane: MPLS
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9181: A Common YANG Data Model for Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9573: MVPN/EVPN Tunnel Aggregation with Common Labels
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9960: Segment Routing Point-to-Multipoint Policy
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9723: BGP Colored Prefix Routing (CPR) for Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9938: A Framework for the Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Controller Plane
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9160: Export of MPLS Segment Routing Label Type Information in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9716: Mechanisms for MPLS Ping and Traceroute Procedures in Inter-Domain Segment Routing Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9732: A Framework for NRP-Based Enhanced Virtual Private Networks