RFC 7837
IPv6 Destination Option for Congestion Exposure (ConEx), May 2016
- File formats:
- Status:
- EXPERIMENTAL
- Authors:
- S. Krishnan
M. Kuehlewind
B. Briscoe
C. Ralli - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- conex (tsv)
DOI: 10.17487/RFC7837
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Abstract
Congestion Exposure (ConEx) is a mechanism by which senders inform the network about the congestion encountered by packets earlier in the same flow. This document specifies an IPv6 destination option that is capable of carrying ConEx markings in IPv6 datagrams.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.