RFC 8768: Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Hop-Limit Option

The presence of Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) proxies may lead to infinite forwarding loops, which is undesirable. To prevent and detect such loops,…

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Outgoing relationships (6 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 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
Normative reference — RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Normative reference — RFC 8075: Guidelines for Mapping Implementations: HTTP to the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informative reference — RFC 8586: Loop Detection in Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9132: Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8782: Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel Specification
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9953: DNS over CoAP (DoC)