RFC 9962 · INFORMATIONAL · 2026
MON · 27 JUL 2026
A Decentralized Locator/ID Separation Protocol Mapping System
Overview
RFC 9962, “A Decentralized Locator/ID Separation Protocol Mapping System”, is an Informational document published in May 2026 by D. Farinacci, C. Cantrell. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes how the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) Mapping System can be distributed for scale and decentralized for management, while maintaining trust among data plane nodes. This is an Informational RFC and should be used by LISP-Decent implementations to interoperate with each other.
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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