RFC 7620 · INFORMATIONAL · 2015

Scenarios with Host Identification Complications

Overview

RFC 7620, “Scenarios with Host Identification Complications”, is an Informational document published in August 2015 by M. Boucadair, B. Chatras, T. Reddy, B. Williams, B. Sarikaya. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes a set of scenarios in which complications when identifying which policy to apply for a host are encountered. This problem is abstracted as "host identification". Describing these scenarios allows commonalities between scenarios to be identified, which is helpful during the solution design phase.

This document does not include any solution-specific discussions.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Informational” means

Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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