RFC 8992 · INFORMATIONAL · 2021

Autonomic IPv6 Edge Prefix Management in Large-Scale Networks

Overview

RFC 8992, “Autonomic IPv6 Edge Prefix Management in Large-Scale Networks”, is an Informational document published in May 2021 by S. Jiang, Z. Du, B. Carpenter, Q. Sun. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document defines two autonomic technical objectives for IPv6 prefix management at the edge of large-scale ISP networks, with an extension to support IPv4 prefixes. An important purpose of this document is to use it for validation of the design of various components of the Autonomic Networking Infrastructure.

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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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