RFC 8025 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2016
TUE · 16 JUN 2026
IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network Paging Dispatch
Overview
RFC 8025, “IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network Paging Dispatch”, is a Proposed Standard document published in November 2016 by P. Thubert, R. Cragie. It updates RFC 4944. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This specification updates RFC 4944 to introduce a new context switch mechanism for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) compression, expressed in terms of Pages and signaled by a new Paging Dispatch.
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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