RFC 9927 on Fixing the C-Flag in the Extended Address Registration Option (EARO)
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RFC 9927
Title: Fixing the C-Flag in the
Extended Address Registration Option (EARO)
Author: P. Thubert,
A. Rashid
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: February 2026
Mailbox: pascal.thubert@gmail.com,
adnan.rashid@poliba.it
Pages: 7
Updates: RFC 8928
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-6lo-updating-rfc-8928-05.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9927
DOI: 10.17487/RFC9927
This document updates "Address-Protected Neighbor Discovery for
Low-Power and Lossy Networks" (RFC 8928) by changing the position of
the C-flag in the Extended Address Registration Option (EARO) and
registering it with IANA.
This document is a product of the IPv6 over Networks of Resource-constrained Nodes Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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