Skip to main content

Invalid TLV Handling in IS-IS
RFC 8918

Revision differences

Document history

Date By Action
2020-09-25
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC8918
2020-09-24
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8918, changed abstract to 'The key to the extensibility of the Intermediate System to Intermediate …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8918, changed abstract to 'The key to the extensibility of the Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol has been the handling of unsupported and/or invalid Type-Length-Value (TLV) tuples. Although there are explicit statements in existing specifications, deployment experience has shown that there are inconsistencies in the behavior when a TLV that is disallowed in a particular Protocol Data Unit (PDU) is received.

This document discusses such cases and makes the correct behavior explicit in order to ensure that interoperability is maximized.

This document updates RFCs 5305 and 6232.', changed pages to 8, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2020-09-24, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created updates relation between draft-ietf-lsr-isis-invalid-tlv and RFC 5305, created updates relation between draft-ietf-lsr-isis-invalid-tlv and RFC 6232)
2020-09-24
(System) RFC published