RFC 9916 on Updates to the Usage of TLS to Provide a Secure Transport for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)
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Subject: RFC 9916 on Updates to the Usage of TLS to Provide a Secure Transport for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)
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RFC 9916
Title: Updates to the Usage of TLS to Provide a Secure Transport for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)
Author: D. Dhody,
S. Turner,
R. Housley
Status: Proposed Standard
Stream: IETF
Date: July 2026
Mailbox: dd@dhruvdhody.com,
sean@sn3rd.com,
housley@vigilsec.com
Pages: 5
Updates: RFC 8253
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-pce-pceps-tls13-04
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9916
DOI: 10.17487/RFC9916
Section 3.4 of RFC 8253 specifies TLS connection establishment restrictions for PCEPS; PCEPS refers to usage of TLS to provide a secure transport for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP). This document adds restrictions to specify what PCEPS implementations do if they support more than one version of the TLS protocol and to restrict the use of TLS 1.3's early data.
This document is a product of the Path Computation Element Working Group of the IETF.
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