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Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Network Programming
RFC 8986

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Date By Action
2022-10-24
Jenny Bui Posted related IPR disclosure Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd's Statement about IPR related to RFC 8986
2022-05-27
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Verified Errata tag)
2022-05-26
Tina Dang Posted related IPR disclosure Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Statement about IPR related to RFC 8986, RFC 8754, and RFC 8402
2022-01-06
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2021-02-26
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC8986
2021-02-22
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8986, changed title to 'Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Network Programming', changed abstract to 'The …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8986, changed title to 'Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Network Programming', changed abstract to 'The Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Network Programming framework enables a network operator or an application to specify a packet processing program by encoding a sequence of instructions in the IPv6 packet header.

Each instruction is implemented on one or several nodes in the network and identified by an SRv6 Segment Identifier in the packet.

This document defines the SRv6 Network Programming concept and specifies the base set of SRv6 behaviors that enables the creation of interoperable overlays with underlay optimization.', changed pages to 40, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2021-02-22, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2021-02-22
(System) RFC published