RFC 9096 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2021
WED · 29 JUL 2026
Improving the Reaction of Customer Edge Routers to IPv6 Renumbering Events
Overview
RFC 9096, “Improving the Reaction of Customer Edge Routers to IPv6 Renumbering Events”, is a Best Current Practice document published in August 2021 by F. Gont, J. Žorž, R. Patterson, B. Volz. It updates RFC 7084. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document specifies improvements to Customer Edge routers that help mitigate the problems that may arise when network configuration information becomes invalid without any explicit signaling of that condition to the local nodes. This document updates RFC 7084.
What “Best Current Practice” means
Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.
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