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Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules for IPv6
RFC 8956

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['BGP Flow Specification', 'V6']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
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Changed author "S. Hares": changed name from "Sue Hares" to "S. Hares", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "USA"), changed order from …
Changed author "S. Hares": changed name from "Sue Hares" to "S. Hares", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "USA"), changed order from "2" to "3"
2026-05-20
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Changed author "R. Raszuk": changed name from "ROBERT RASZUK" to "R. Raszuk", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", changed affiliation from "Bloomberg LP" to "NTT …
Changed author "R. Raszuk": changed name from "ROBERT RASZUK" to "R. Raszuk", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", changed affiliation from "Bloomberg LP" to "NTT Network Innovations", cleared country (was "USA"), changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
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Changed author "C. Loibl": changed name from "Christoph Loibl" to "C. Loibl", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "AT"), changed order from …
Changed author "C. Loibl": changed name from "Christoph Loibl" to "C. Loibl", changed is_editor from "False" to "True", cleared country (was "AT"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2024-01-13
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Verified Errata tag)
2023-07-25
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2021-01-04
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC8956
2020-12-31
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Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8956, changed abstract to '"Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules" (RFC 8955) provides a …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8956, changed abstract to '"Dissemination of Flow Specification Rules" (RFC 8955) provides a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) extension for the propagation of traffic flow information for the purpose of rate limiting or filtering IPv4 protocol data packets.

This document extends RFC 8955 with IPv6 functionality. It also updates RFC 8955 by changing the IANA Flow Spec Component Types registry.', changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2020-12-31, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created updates relation between draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6 and RFC 8955)
2020-12-31
(System) RFC published