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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)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7837
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Abstract
Congestion Exposure (ConEx) is a mechanism by which senders informthe network about the congestion encountered by packets earlier inthe same flow. This document specifies an IPv6 destination optionthat is capable of carrying ConEx markings in IPv6 datagrams.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.