RFC 9008: Using RPI Option Type, Routing Header for Source Routes, and IPv6-in-IPv6 Encapsulation in the RPL Data Plane

This document looks at different data flows through Low-Power and Lossy Networks (LLN) where RPL (IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) is…

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Outgoing relationships (27 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 6550: RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 6553: The Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) Option for Carrying RPL Information in Data-Plane Datagrams
Updates, Normative reference — RFC 8138: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Routing Header
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 8200: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 6282: Compression Format for IPv6 Datagrams over IEEE 802.15.4-Based Networks
Normative reference — RFC 6040: Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion Notification
Normative reference — RFC 6554: An IPv6 Routing Header for Source Routes with the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Normative reference — RFC 7045: Transmission and Processing of IPv6 Extension Headers
Normative reference — RFC 8025: IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Paging Dispatch
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 2473: Generic Packet Tunneling in IPv6 Specification
Informative reference — RFC 6775: Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Informative reference — RFC 6437: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Informative reference — RFC 8505: Registration Extensions for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Neighbor Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 7102: Terms Used in Routing for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Informative reference — RFC 8504: IPv6 Node Requirements
Informative reference — RFC 8928: Address-Protected Neighbor Discovery for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Informative reference — RFC 8929: IPv6 Backbone Router
Informative reference — RFC 9010: Routing for RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) Leaves
Informative reference — RFC 7416: A Security Threat Analysis for the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPLs)
Informative reference — RFC 6997: Reactive Discovery of Point-to-Point Routes in Low-Power and Lossy Networks
Informative reference — RFC 5406: Guidelines for Specifying the Use of IPsec Version 2
Informative reference — RFC 801: NCP/TCP transition plan
Informative reference — RFC 8180: Minimal IPv6 over the TSCH Mode of IEEE 802.15.4e (6TiSCH) Configuration

Incoming relationships (8 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9030: An Architecture for IPv6 over the Time-Slotted Channel Hopping Mode of IEEE 802.15.4 (6TiSCH)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9010: Routing for RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) Leaves
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9288: Recommendations on the Filtering of IPv6 Packets Containing IPv6 Extension Headers at Transit Routers
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9914: Root-Initiated Routing State in the Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9035: A Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) Destination-Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) Configuration Option for the 6LoWPAN Routing Header
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9034: Packet Delivery Deadline Time in the Routing Header for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9453: Applicability and Use Cases for IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes (6lo)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9685: Listener Subscription for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Multicast and Anycast Addresses