@techreport{li-6man-app-aware-ipv6-network-03, number = {draft-li-6man-app-aware-ipv6-network-03}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-6man-app-aware-ipv6-network/03/}, author = {Zhenbin Li and Shuping Peng and Cong Li and Chongfeng Xie and Daniel Voyer and Xing Li and Peng Liu and Chang Liu and Kentaro Ebisawa}, title = {{Application-aware IPv6 Networking (APN6) Encapsulation}}, pagetotal = 17, year = 2021, month = feb, day = 22, abstract = {Application-aware IPv6 Networking (APN6) framework makes use of IPv6 encapsulation in order to convey the application-aware information along with the data packet to the network so to facilitate the service deployment and SLA guarantee. This document defines the encodings of the application characteristic information, for the APN6 framework, that can be exchanged between an application or a network edge device such as CPE (Customer-Premises Equipment) and the network infrastructure through the use of IPv6 extension headers.}, }