RFC 8931 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2020
WED · 29 JUL 2026
IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network Selective Fragment Recovery
Overview
RFC 8931, “IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network Selective Fragment Recovery”, is a Proposed Standard document published in November 2020 by P. Thubert. It updates RFC 4944. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document updates RFC 4944 with a protocol that forwards individual fragments across a route-over mesh and recovers them end to end, with congestion control capabilities to protect the network.
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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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 2020
- RFC 8930 On Forwarding 6LoWPAN Fragments over a Multi-Hop IPv6 Network
- RFC 8932 Recommendations for DNS Privacy Service Operators
- RFC 8929 IPv6 Backbone Router
- RFC 8933 Update to the Cryptographic Message Syntax for Algorithm Identifier Protection
- RFC 8928 Address-Protected Neighbor Discovery for Low-Power and Lossy Networks
- RFC 8934 PCE Communication Protocol Extensions for Label Switched Path Scheduling with Stateful PCE
- RFC 8927 JSON Type Definition
- RFC 8935 Push-Based Security Event Token Delivery Using HTTP