IP Mobility Support for IPv4, Revised
RFC 5944, “IP Mobility Support for IPv4, Revised”, is a Proposed Standard document published in November 2010 by C. Perkins. It obsoletes RFC 3344. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document specifies protocol enhancements that allow transparent routing of IP datagrams to mobile nodes in the Internet. Each mobile node is always identified by its home address, regardless of its current point of attachment to the Internet. While situated away from its home, a mobile node is also associated with a care-of address, which provides information about its current point of attachment to the Internet. The protocol provides for registering the care-of address with a home agent. The home agent sends datagrams destined for the mobile node through a tunnel to the care-of address. After arriving at the end of the tunnel, each datagram is then delivered to the mobile node. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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- RFC 5943 A Dedicated Routing Policy Specification Language Interface Identifier for Operational Testing
- RFC 5945 Resource Reservation Protocol Proxy Approaches
- RFC 5942 IPv6 Subnet Model: The Relationship between Links and Subnet Prefixes
- RFC 5946 Resource Reservation Protocol Extensions for Path-Triggered RSVP Receiver Proxy
- RFC 5941 Sharing Transaction Fraud Data
- RFC 5947 Requirements for Multiple Address of Record Reachability Information in the Session Initiation Protocol
- RFC 5940 Additional Cryptographic Message Syntax Revocation Information Choices
- RFC 5948 Transmission of IPv4 Packets over the IP Convergence Sublayer of IEEE 802.16