Assignment of an Ethertype for IPv6 with Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN) Encapsulation
RFC 7973
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2026-05-20
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(System) | Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['6lowpan', 'header compression', 'ethertype']' from '[]' |
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2026-05-20
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(System) | Metadata update from RFC Editor |
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2026-05-20
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(System) | Changed author "P. Duffy": changed name from "Paul Duffy" to "P. Duffy", cleared country (was "United States of America"), changed order from "1" to "2" |
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2026-05-20
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(System) | Changed author "R. Droms": changed name from "Ralph Droms" to "R. Droms", changed order from "0" to "1" |
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2026-05-20
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(System) | Metadata update from RFC Editor |
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2016-11-16
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(System) | Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 7973, changed title to 'Assignment of an Ethertype for IPv6 with Low-Power Wireless Personal Area … Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 7973, changed title to 'Assignment of an Ethertype for IPv6 with Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN) Encapsulation', changed abstract to 'When carried over Layer 2 technologies such as Ethernet, IPv6 datagrams using Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (LoWPAN) encapsulation as defined in RFC 4944 must be identified so the receiver can correctly interpret the encoded IPv6 datagram. The IETF officially requested the assignment of an Ethertype for that purpose and this document reports that assignment.', changed pages to 5, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2016-11-16, changed IESG state to RFC Published) |
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2016-11-16
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(System) | RFC published |