RFC 7227 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2014
MON · 27 JUL 2026
Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options
Overview
RFC 7227, “Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options”, is a Best Current Practice document published in May 2014 by D. Hankins, T. Mrugalski, M. Siodelski, S. Jiang, S. Krishnan. It updates RFC 3315. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document provides guidance to prospective DHCPv6 option developers to help them create option formats that are easily adoptable by existing DHCPv6 software. It also provides guidelines for expert reviewers to evaluate new registrations. This document updates RFC 3315.
What “Best Current Practice” means
Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 2014
- RFC 7226 Requirements for Advanced Multipath in MPLS Networks
- RFC 7228 Terminology for Constrained-Node Networks
- RFC 7225 Discovering NAT64 IPv6 Prefixes Using the Port Control Protocol
- RFC 7229 Object Identifiers for Test Certificate Policies
- RFC 7224 IANA Interface Type YANG Module
- RFC 7230 Hypertext Transfer Protocol : Message Syntax and Routing
- RFC 7223 A YANG Data Model for Interface Management
- RFC 7231 Hypertext Transfer Protocol : Semantics and Content