{"draft":"draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming-28","doc_id":"RFC8986","title":"Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Network Programming","authors":["C. Filsfils, Ed.","P. Camarillo, Ed.","J. Leddy","D. Voyer","S. Matsushima","Z. Li"],"format":["HTML","TEXT","PDF","XML"],"page_count":"40","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Source Packet Routing in Networking","abstract":"The Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Network Programming framework\r\nenables a network operator or an application to specify a packet\r\nprocessing program by encoding a sequence of instructions in the IPv6\r\npacket header.\r\n\r\nEach instruction is implemented on one or several nodes in the\r\nnetwork and identified by an SRv6 Segment Identifier in the packet.\r\n\r\nThis document defines the SRv6 Network Programming concept and\r\nspecifies the base set of SRv6 behaviors that enables the creation of\r\ninteroperable overlays with underlay optimization.","pub_date":"February 2021","keywords":["SRv6","Segment Routing","IPv6 Segment Routing"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8986","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc8986"}