RFC 5572 · EXPERIMENTAL · 2010

IPv6 Tunnel Broker with the Tunnel Setup Protocol

Overview

RFC 5572, “IPv6 Tunnel Broker with the Tunnel Setup Protocol”, is an Experimental document published in February 2010 by M. Blanchet, F. Parent. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

A tunnel broker with the Tunnel Setup Protocol (TSP) enables the establishment of tunnels of various inner protocols, such as IPv6 or IPv4, inside various outer protocols packets, such as IPv4, IPv6, or UDP over IPv4 for IPv4 NAT traversal. The control protocol (TSP) is used by the tunnel client to negotiate the tunnel with the broker. A mobile node implementing TSP can be connected to both IPv4 and IPv6 networks whether it is on IPv4 only, IPv4 behind a NAT, or on IPv6 only. A tunnel broker may terminate the tunnels on remote tunnel servers or on itself. This document describes the TSP within the model of the tunnel broker model. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

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What “Experimental” means

Describes a specification that is part of a research or development effort, published so the community can gain experience with it.

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