RFC 8754: IPv6 Segment Routing Header (SRH)

Segment Routing can be applied to the IPv6 data plane using a new type of Routing Extension Header called the Segment Routing Header (SRH). This document…

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Outgoing relationships (18 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 2104: HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
Normative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Normative reference — RFC 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 8402: Segment Routing Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Normative reference — RFC 2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification
Normative reference — RFC 3704: Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks
Normative reference — RFC 4107: Guidelines for Cryptographic Key Management
Normative reference — RFC 6437: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Normative reference — RFC 5095: Deprecation of Type 0 Routing Headers in IPv6
Normative reference — RFC 6438: Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and Link Aggregation in Tunnels
Normative reference — RFC 6407: The Group Domain of Interpretation
Informative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 5340: OSPF for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 5308: Routing IPv6 with IS-IS

Incoming relationships (28 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9800: Compressed SRv6 Segment List Encoding
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9256: Segment Routing Policy Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9252: BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9513: OSPFv3 Extensions for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
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 9602: Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Segment Identifiers in the IPv6 Addressing Architecture
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9259: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) in Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9487: Export of Segment Routing over IPv6 Information in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
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 9288: Recommendations on the Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers at Transit Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9723: BGP Colored Prefix Routing (CPR) for Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
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
Normatively referenced by — RFC 10038: Distributing the Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Locator Using DHCPv6
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9181: A Common YANG Data Model for Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPNs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8799: Limited Domains and Internet Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9025: Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Data Plane: MPLS over UDP/IP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9343: IPv6 Application of the Alternate-Marking Method
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9514: Border Gateway Protocol - Link State (BGP-LS) Extensions for Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9604: Carrying Binding Label/SID in PCE-Based Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9960: Segment Routing Point-to-Multipoint Policy
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8883: ICMPv6 Errors for Discarding Packets Due to Processing Limits
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9914: Root-Initiated Routing State in the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9938: A Framework for the Deterministic Networking (DetNet) Controller Plane
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9947: Application of the Alternate-Marking Method to the Segment Routing Header
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9951: Export of Delay Performance Metrics in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX)