RFC 9516: Active Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) for Service Function Chaining (SFC)

A set of requirements for active Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) for Service Function Chaining (SFC) in a network is presented in this…

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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 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 7665: Service Function Chaining (SFC) Architecture
Normative reference — RFC 8300: Network Service Header (NSH)
Normative reference — RFC 9145: Integrity Protection for the Network Service Header (NSH) and Encryption of Sensitive Context Headers
Normative reference — RFC 9451: Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Packet and Behavior in the Network Service Header (NSH)
Normative reference — RFC 9015: BGP Control Plane for the Network Service Header in Service Function Chaining
Informative reference — RFC 8126: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Informative reference — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Informative reference — RFC 792: Internet Control Message Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Informative reference — RFC 4443: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 5880: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
Informative reference — RFC 8029: Detecting Multiprotocol Label Switched (MPLS) Data-Plane Failures
Informative reference — RFC 5706: Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols and Protocol Extensions
Informative reference — RFC 7799: Active and Passive Metrics and Methods (with Hybrid Types In-Between)
Informative reference — RFC 6437: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Informative reference — RFC 7110: Return Path Specified Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping
Informative reference — RFC 8595: An MPLS-Based Forwarding Plane for Service Function Chaining
Informative reference — RFC 9263: Network Service Header (NSH) Metadata Type 2 Variable-Length Context Headers
Informative reference — RFC 7555: Proxy MPLS Echo Request
Informative reference — RFC 8924: Service Function Chaining (SFC) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Framework