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RFC 2026 Internet Standards Process The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3 The rulebook for how an idea becomes an Internet Standard, from Proposed Standard to full Standard. RFC 2119 MUST/SHOULD/MAY Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels Defining the precise meaning of MUST, SHOULD, MAY and other requirement keywords RFC 2578 SMIv2 Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) The rules for writing MIB modules: how to describe managed objects, notifications and their data types. RFC 2418 IETF WG IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures The rulebook for how IETF working groups are formed, run, staffed and closed down. RFC 2579 SMIv2 Conventions Textual Conventions for SMIv2 A way to give MIB data types their own names, meanings and display formats, plus the first set of ready-made ones. RFC 2580 SMIv2 Conformance Conformance Statements for SMIv2 The notation MIB authors use to say what an SNMP agent must implement, and what a given product actually does. RFC 8174 RFC 2119 Clarification Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words A short fix that says only ALL-CAPS MUST and SHOULD carry the special RFC 2119 meanings. RFC 2850 IAB charter Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) The charter that defines the IAB's membership, responsibilities and decision-making process. RFC 7841 RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates The fixed cover-page header and Status of This Memo text that tell readers which stream an RFC came from and how it was reviewed. RFC 2606 Reserved Domains Reserved Top Level DNS Names A set of top-level and example domain names kept aside so tests and examples never collide with real ones. RFC 8713 NomCom and recall IAB, IESG, IETF Trust, and IETF LLC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the IETF Nominating and Recall Committees How the IETF selects and confirms leaders, and how its community can request a recall. RFC 5727 Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area Defines how the IETF organizes core SIP changes and reviews new work in the RAI Area. RFC 7258 Pervasive Monitoring Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack The IETF consensus that pervasive monitoring is a technical attack to mitigate where possible. RFC 1958 Architectural Principles Architectural Principles of the Internet The foundational design philosophy behind the Internet's architecture RFC 3692 Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful Set aside protocol numbers for experiments rather than reusing temporary assignments. RFC 1011 Official Protocols Official Internet protocols A May 1987 checklist of which documents define the Internet's protocols, and how required each one was. RFC 1149 IP over Avian Carriers A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers IP datagrams on a paper scroll wrapped around a bird's leg. RFC 3967 Down-Refs Clarifying when Standards Track Documents may Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level The IETF process for openly reviewing a standards document that must rely on a less mature document. RFC 3710 IESG charter An IESG charter A written description of what the IESG does to run the IETF and keep its output good. RFC 33 New Host-Host Protocol An early proposal for connections and process communication across the ARPA Network. RFC 8729 RFC Series framework The RFC Series and RFC Editor The IAB's framework for who runs the RFC Series, who approves documents, and how its four streams fit together. RFC 36 Protocol Notes Crocker's 1970 notes refining RFC 33, covering connection setup, flow control, and reconnection for early ARPANET host-to-host communication. RFC 3987 IRI Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) A resource identifier that can be written in characters from the Unicode character set. RFC 5378 Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust The permissions contributors grant for IETF work, and the rights they retain. RFC 7776 IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures The IETF process for receiving, assessing, and acting on harassment reports. RFC 16 M.I.T A brief notice directing Network Working Group memos to a new recipient. RFC 8609 CCNx TLV Messages Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) Messages in TLV Format The packet layout and TLV encodings used for CCNx requests and content objects. RFC 7322 RFC Style Guide RFC Style Guide The house style for RFCs: how they are structured, punctuated, capitalized and referenced before the RFC Editor publishes them. RFC 8719 IETF meeting policy High-Level Guidance for the Meeting Policy of the IETF Sets high-level guidance for rotating IETF meetings among regions, with room to explore. RFC 7991 xml2rfc v3 The "xml2rfc" Version 3 Vocabulary The XML vocabulary that RFC and Internet-Draft authors use to prepare documents for publication. RFC 9245 IETF Discussion List IETF Discussion List Charter The charter for the IETF's general discussion mailing list: its purpose, boundaries, and moderation process. RFC 4846 Independent Submissions to the RFC Editor How the RFC Editor receives, reviews, and publishes documents outside the IETF standards process. RFC 8730 Independent Sub. Editor Independent Submission Editor Model The responsibilities and qualifications of the editor who manages the Independent Submission stream. RFC 8615 Well-Known URIs Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) A reserved /.well-known/ path so a protocol can find site-wide files without colliding with a site's own pages. RFC 1550 IPng white papers IP: Next Generation (IPng) White Paper Solicitation A call for papers about requirements and selection criteria for the next generation of IP. RFC 8718 Meeting venue process IETF Plenary Meeting Venue Selection Process The community's requirements for choosing where the IETF holds its plenary meetings, from room size to travel visas. RFC 385 FTP Comments Comments on the File Transfer Protocol Clarifies requirements and adds commands and transfer details to the 1972 FTP specification. RFC 24 Documentation Conventions Sets practical conventions for writing and distributing Network Working Group notes. RFC 116 Structure of the May NWG Meeting Proposes organizing the May Network Working Group meeting into three phases. RFC 1737 URN requirements Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names The functional and encoding requirements for permanent, location-independent resource names. RFC 3553 An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters Gives IANA-registered protocol parameters stable URN names under urn:ietf:params. RFC 3935 A Mission Statement for the IETF The IETF states what it is for, defines the words it uses, and lists the five principles its work follows. RFC 3234 Middleboxes Middleboxes: Taxonomy and Issues A taxonomy of network intermediaries that do more than forward IP packets. RFC 4838 DTN Architecture Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture A message-oriented overlay for networks with long delays, intermittent links, or extended disconnections. RFC 6920 Named Information Naming Things with Hashes Standard ways to name a digital object by the fingerprint of its bytes, so the name can prove the object is right. RFC 7154 IETF Guidelines for Conduct Four rules for how the people who write Internet standards treat each other while they write them. RFC 2014 IRTF Group Guidelines IRTF Research Group Guidelines and Procedures How IRTF research groups are formed, run and closed, and who does what. RFC 3238 IAB Architectural and Policy Considerations for Open Pluggable Edge Services The IAB's considerations for services that transform content inside a network. RFC 9920 RFC Editor Model v3 RFC Editor Model (Version 3) How the RFC Series sets policy, publishes documents, and gathers community input. RFC 6702 IPR Disclosure Rules Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Disclosure Rules Suggested checkpoints for reminding IETF contributors about intellectual property disclosures. RFC 7997 Non-ASCII in RFCs The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs Rules for using characters beyond ASCII in RFCs while keeping documents readable and searchable. RFC 2804 IETF Policy on Wiretapping The IETF's position on adding wiretapping features to its standards. RFC 2860 IANA MoU Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority The IETF-ICANN agreement recorded for IANA's technical parameter work. RFC 3933 A Model for IETF Process Experiments How the IETF can try out a change to its own rules for a limited time before making it permanent. RFC 4052 IAB Liaison Processes IAB Processes for Management of IETF Liaison Relationships How the IETF's governing board opens, runs and approves working relationships with other standards bodies. RFC 4048 RFC 1888 Is Obsolete RFC 1888 Is Obsolete A short memo that recommends reclassifying RFC 1888, on OSI addresses inside IPv6, as Historic. RFC 9720 RFC Formats and Versions RFC Formats and Versions How RFCXML, published versions, reissues, and archives fit together. RFC 8179 IETF IPR Policy Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology Who must tell the IETF about patents, when, and how, so working groups can choose technology with open eyes. RFC 9945 IETF moderation IETF Community Moderation How the IETF handles people who disrupt its mailing lists, chats and other public forums. RFC 1311 STD Notes Introduction to the STD Notes How the STD subseries labels which RFCs document Internet standards, and how STD numbers work. RFC 54 Protocol Proffering Official Protocol Proffering The June 1970 draft of the first official host-to-host protocol of the early ARPA network, offered for comment. RFC 6410 Two maturity levels Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels The IETF standards track goes from three maturity levels to two, and annual review is dropped. RFC 1160 IAB History Internet Activities Board A May 1990 account of the Internet Activities Board and its task forces. RFC 8714 IETF Trust trustees Update to the Process for Selection of Trustees for the IETF Trust Why the IETF Trust's five trustees are now picked on their own instead of coming from a defunct oversight committee. RFC 1715 H ratio The H Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency A logarithmic yardstick for how efficiently an address space is actually used. RFC 2555 30 Years of RFCs 30 Years of RFCs Recollections from people involved in the RFC series, marking its thirtieth anniversary in 1999. RFC 7992 HTML Format for RFCs The HTML structure and rendering rules for RFCs and Internet-Drafts. RFC 8280 Human Rights Review Research into Human Rights Protocol Considerations A research framework for considering how protocol choices can affect people's rights. RFC 1287 Towards the Future Internet Architecture An Internet architecture discussion that identifies growth, routing, security, and application challenges for future work. RFC 9389 NomCom Eligibility Nominating Committee Eligibility The three ways to qualify for the IETF Nominating Committee, and why online attendance now counts. RFC 5328 DVB URN Namespace A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) A permanent URN namespace for resources defined by the DVB Project. RFC 6756 IETF-ITU-T collaboration Internet Engineering Task Force and International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector Collaboration Guidelines Guidance for the IETF and ITU-T to coordinate standards work. RFC 7241 IEEE 802/IETF relationship The IEEE 802/IETF Relationship How IEEE 802 and the IETF coordinate work across network standards. RFC 8569 CCNx Semantics Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) Semantics A name-based request and response protocol for retrieving network content. RFC 27 Documentation Conventions Documentation Conventions The early rules for writing Network Working Group notes: short, informal, open to anyone, and mailed to a fixed list. RFC 308 Host Availability ARPANET host availability data The MIT-DMCG SURVEY program, which tried to reach every ARPANET host every 15 minutes to see who was answering. RFC 467 Host-Host resync Proposed change to Host-Host Protocol: Resynchronization of connection status A proposal to repair a single ARPANET connection whose two ends disagree, without resetting all connections. RFC 7575 Autonomic Networking Autonomic Networking: Definitions and Design Goals Definitions and design goals for network functions that manage themselves with limited detailed configuration. RFC 495 Telnet Telnet Protocol specifications The cover note that announced a new official TELNET specification and a phase-in schedule for it. RFC 2775 Internet Transparency An architectural look at how intermediaries affect end-to-end connectivity and addressing. RFC 6709 Design Considerations for Protocol Extensions Design principles for extending Internet protocols without breaking interoperability RFC 6949 RFC Series Format Requirements and Future Development Requirements proposed in 2013 for the canonical format and publication of RFCs. RFC 7927 ICN Research Challenges Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Research Challenges A research survey of the technical challenges in building a network around named data. RFC 2324 HTCPCP Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) HTTP, extended to brew coffee, and the origin of “418 I’m a teapot” RFC 6292 Requirements for a Working Group Charter Tool Requirements for a tool to manage IETF working-group chartering, rechartering, and closure. RFC 7405 Case-Sensitive String Support in ABNF ABNF prefixes for writing quoted strings that must match case exactly or ignore case. RFC 7993 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Requirements for RFCs Requirements for the default style sheet used in RFC HTML publications. RFC 7994 Plain-Text RFCs Requirements for Plain-Text RFCs Requirements for plain-text renderings of RFCs generated from XML source. RFC 7995 PDF for RFCs PDF Format for RFCs Recommendations for making RFC PDFs readable, searchable, accessible, and suitable for preservation. RFC 1983 Internet Users' Glossary Internet Users' Glossary An alphabetical guide to Internet terms, abbreviations and related references. RFC 3232 Assigned Numbers: RFC 1700 is Replaced by an On-line Database The memo that retires the printed Assigned Numbers RFC in favor of an online database. RFC 381 Network Operation Aids Three aids to improved network operation BBN reserves Tuesday mornings for IMP reloads, adds warnings before shutdowns, and reworks the IMP-to-Host messages. RFC 690 Host/IMP Comments Comments on the proposed Host/IMP Protocol changes Jon Postel annotates a proposed list of Host/IMP protocol changes, point by point. RFC 3677 ISOC Trustee Process IETF ISOC Board of Trustee Appointment Procedures How the IETF chooses the person it nominates to the Internet Society's Board of Trustees each year. RFC 4903 Multi-Link Subnet Issues Why assigning one subnet across multiple routed links conflicts with common IP assumptions. RFC 5218 What Makes for a Successful Protocol? A case-study-based look at factors that help Internet protocols succeed or fail. RFC 5887 Renumbering Still Needs Work Why changing a site's IP prefixes remains an operational challenge RFC 6963 Example URNs A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Examples A reserved 'example' prefix so documents and tests can use URNs that will never collide with real ones. RFC 8406 Network coding taxonomy Taxonomy of Coding Techniques for Efficient Network Communications Shared terminology for network coding techniques and their building blocks. RFC 101 Notes on the Network Working Group meeting, Urbana, Illinois, February 17, 1971 Richard Watson's notes on the February 1971 Network Working Group meeting, from site reports to the first committees. RFC 212 NWG meeting on network usage The October 1971 NWG meeting notice, with a new focus on how people use the network. RFC 288 Network host status A BBN snapshot of ARPANET host availability from December 20 to 30, 1971. RFC 319 Network Host Status A BBN report on ARPANET host tests from February 28 to March 10, 1972. RFC 330 Network Host Status A Network Host Status report covering March 27 to April 7, 1972. RFC 370 Network Host Status BBN's ARPANET host status report for July 17 to July 28, 1972. RFC 3797 Verifiable Random Selection Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection A reproducible method for making a random selection that anyone can verify. RFC 7100 Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document The IETF retires STD 1, the periodically published summary of Internet standards. RFC 7942 Implementation Status Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section How an Internet-Draft can list known implementations, and why the IETF thinks running code is worth recording. RFC 6585 HTTP Status 428/429/431/511 Additional HTTP Status Codes Introducing 429 Too Many Requests and other essential HTTP status codes RFC 5706 Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols and Protocol Extensions Questions protocol designers should consider before deployment and management become difficult. RFC 7476 Information-Centric Networking: Baseline Scenarios Baseline scenarios for comparing information-centric networking approaches. RFC 1 First RFC Host Software A tentative 1969 sketch of how ARPANET hosts could exchange messages and establish connections. RFC 1109 Net Mgmt Review Report of the second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group The IAB's 1989 recommendations on SNMP, CMOT, and Internet management information. RFC 111 Pressure from the Chairman The Network Working Group chair asks sites to schedule and test their software implementations. RFC 140 Agenda for the May NWG meeting The day-by-day agenda for the May 1971 Network Working Group meeting. RFC 497 Traffic Statistics (March 1973) A BBN table of ARPANET host packet output for March 1973. RFC 509 Traffic statistics (April 1973) The April 1973 edition of BBN's ARPANET host traffic statistics. RFC 579 Traffic statistics (September 1973) A September 1973 table of packet totals for hosts on the ARPANET. RFC 597 Host status A December 1973 snapshot of ARPANET maps, host names and connection status. RFC 603 Response to RFC 597: Host status Two questions about link counts and regional loops on an ARPANET map. RFC 1208 Networking Glossary A Glossary of Networking Terms A brief alphabetized glossary of Internet and OSI terms prepared for Interop 90. RFC 1900 Renumbering Needs Work Renumbering Needs Work The IAB urges network designers to make changing IP addresses easier. RFC 3233 Defining the IETF A short note that says what 'the IETF' means: an open community, not a company or a club with formal membership. RFC 3535 Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop The IAB's account of operators' network-management needs and its recommendations to the IETF. RFC 4084 Internet Connectivity Terminology for Describing Internet Connectivity A shared vocabulary so that 'Internet access' tells customers what they are really buying. RFC 4897 Handling Normative References to Standards-Track Documents The 'note and move on' rule: publish now and annotate references to less mature standards-track documents. RFC 5657 Draft Standard Reports Guidance on Interoperation and Implementation Reports for Advancement to Draft Standard What a good implementation report has to contain before a protocol can advance to Draft Standard. RFC 6174 WG Document States Definition of IETF Working Group Document States States and annotation tags for tracking working-group Internet-Drafts. RFC 6256 SDNV Using Self-Delimiting Numeric Values in Protocols A variable-length encoding for non-negative integers and bit strings. RFC 8546 Wire Image The Wire Image of a Network Protocol A way to describe the information a nonparticipant can observe in network traffic. RFC 8793 CCNx and NDN terms Information-Centric Networking (ICN): Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) and Named Data Networking (NDN) Terminology A shared vocabulary for the CCNx and Named Data Networking architectures. RFC 9712 IETF Venue Review IETF Meeting Venue Requirements Review The IETF tweaks its meeting venue rules: looser room blocks, a simpler exploratory meeting process and less ad hoc space. RFC 3061 A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers A standard way to write Object Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names. RFC 4794 RFC 1264 Is Obsolete RFC 1264 Is Obsolete Why the IETF reclassified its general routing protocol rules as Historic. RFC 1000 RFC Reference Guide Request for Comments Reference Guide A 1987 guide to RFCs 1 through 999, with categories, summaries, and cross-references. RFC 414 File Transfer Protocol (FTP) status and further comments A 1972 FTP status report with proposals for clearer commands and replies. RFC 454 FTP File Transfer Protocol - meeting announcement and a new proposed document A meeting call and a rewritten FTP proposal meant to settle the objections raised against RFC 354. RFC 1987 Ipsilon GSMP Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1 A master-slave protocol for a controller to manage connections and ports on an ATM switch. RFC 5540 40 Years of RFCs 40 Years of RFCs The RFC Editor marks four decades of the RFC document series. RFC 1797 Class A Subnetting Class A Subnet Experiment A temporary experiment using IPv4 network 39 to test subnetted class A addresses. RFC 1175 Internetworking Reading FYI on where to start: A bibliography of internetworking information A reading list for people starting out with computer networking. RFC 1925 12 Networking Truths The Twelve Networking Truths An April 1st memo that lists twelve half-serious truths about network design. RFC 3113 3GPP-IETF Standardization Collaboration Guidelines for collaboration between 3GPP and the IETF on Internet-related specifications. RFC 3514 Evil Bit The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header An April 1st joke RFC proposing an IPv4 bit that marks packets as malicious. RFC 4101 Writing Protocol Models Writing Protocol Models A short guide to the overview document that lets reviewers grasp a protocol before wading into its details. RFC 4924 Reflections on Internet Transparency The IAB explains how network filtering and rewriting can affect Internet transparency RFC 4948 IAB Unwanted Traffic Report from the IAB workshop on Unwanted Traffic March 9-10, 2006 What operators, vendors and researchers told the IAB about spam, DDoS and the money behind unwanted traffic. RFC 5743 Definition of an Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Document Stream The review and publication path for documents in the Internet Research Task Force stream. RFC 7754 Technical Considerations for Internet Service Blocking and Filtering Technical trade-offs and consequences of blocking and filtering Internet services. RFC 9170 Long-Term Viability of Protocol Extension Mechanisms Why protocols need regular real-world use of their extension mechanisms. RFC 2151 Internet Tools Primer A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools and Utilities A 1997 guide to common TCP/IP tools, Internet services, and RFC documents. RFC 3929 Consensus-Blocked Decisions Alternative Decision Making Processes for Consensus-Blocked Decisions in the IETF Experimental tie-breaking processes for rare IETF working-group deadlocks. RFC 4633 List suspensions Experiment in Long-Term Suspensions From Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Mailing Lists An experiment that broadened the IESG's options for managing IETF mailing lists. RFC 5125 Reclassify RFC 3525 Reclassification of RFC 3525 to Historic RFC 3525 moves to Historic as ITU-T continued developing H.248.1. RFC 8712 IETF-ISOC relationship The IETF-ISOC Relationship A summary of the IETF and Internet Society relationship after the IASA 2.0 changes. RFC 9281 IETF Entities Entities Involved in the IETF Standards Process A who's who of the people and organizations behind the IETF standards process. RFC 3777 NomCom IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees The process RFC 3777 set out for choosing and confirming IAB and IESG members. RFC 4548 NSAP ICP assignments Internet Code Point (ICP) Assignments for NSAP Addresses Hands out the two code points that say whether an IPv4 or an IPv6 address is tucked inside an OSI NSAP address. RFC 2028 IETF Organizations The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process A who's who of the people and bodies that produce Internet standards, as of 1996. RFC 52 Updated distribution list A revised list of people and addresses for receiving network documents. RFC 70 Note on Padding Bit operations and lookup tables for finding the padding bit in a word. RFC 193 NETWORK CHECKOUT A matrix of ARPANET sites and the network software elements verified at each one. RFC 222 Subject: System programmer's workshop An invitation to a small system-programmer workshop testing Telnet connections at Project MAC. RFC 323 Formation of Network Measurement Group (NMG) A report on plans to measure ARPANET traffic, host behavior and network performance. RFC 387 Some experiences in implementing Network Graphics Protocol Level 0 Implementers resolve two practical questions about NGP-0 coordinates and text placement. RFC 396 Network Graphics Working Group Meeting - Second Iteration Steve Bunch weighs feedback and proposes a summer date for the Network Graphics Working Group. RFC 404 Host Address Changes Involving Rand and ISI A brief notice records address changes after the RAND IMP was temporarily removed. RFC 442 Current flow-control scheme for IMPSYS A participant's account of IMP buffer reservations, message ordering and packet acknowledgments. RFC 482 Traffic statistics (February 1973) BBN's February 1973 table of packets output by ARPANET hosts. RFC 523 SURVEY is in operation again MIT-DMCG announces that its host survey is running again and describes the NETSTATUS service. RFC 538 Traffic statistics (June 1973) BBN's table of packets output by ARPANET hosts during June 1973. RFC 566 Traffic statistics (August 1973) BBN's table of packets output by ARPANET hosts during August 1973. RFC 567 Cross Country Network Bandwidth A packet-count estimate for a cross-country key press and its echoed character. RFC 580 Note to Protocol Designers and Implementers Jon Postel asks protocol authors to submit proposals online and notes a Telnet change. RFC 661 Protocol information Jon Postel's November 1974 directory of ARPANET protocols, documents and contacts. RFC 1107 Internet Directory Plan Plan for Internet directory services A roadmap for building a unified Internet-wide directory service. RFC 1118 Hitchhiker's Guide Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet A guided tour of the Internet as it stood in 1989. RFC 1174 IAB Identifier Policy IAB recommended policy on distributing internet identifier assignment and IAB recommended policy change to internet "connected" status The IAB's advice to spread out the handing-out of network numbers and to stop tying registration to "connected" status. RFC 1178 Naming Computers Choosing a Name for Your Computer Practical guidelines for choosing computer names people can remember and use. RFC 1308 Executive Introduction to Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol An executive introduction to X.500 directory services and their limits in 1992. RFC 1363 A Proposed Flow Specification A proposed set of parameters for describing the service a network flow needs. RFC 1462 FYI on "What is the Internet?" A 1993 overview of the Internet's history, organization, funding and open questions. RFC 1588 White Pages Meeting Report A meeting report on Internet directory services for finding people, and how to make them work. RFC 1736 URL requirements Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators The minimum properties a web address must have to work anywhere on the Internet. RFC 1790 An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols The public record of an agreement about ONC RPC and XDR entering the Internet standards process. RFC 3131 3GPP2-IETF Collaboration 3GPP2-IETF Standardization Collaboration How a mobile network standards body and the IETF arrange to write specifications that fit together RFC 3439 Simplicity Principle Some Internet Architectural Guidelines and Philosophy Why the authors of this memo argue that complexity, not function, is what stops large networks scaling RFC 4521 LDAP extension guide Considerations for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Extensions Design advice for anyone adding new operations, schema or other features to LDAP. RFC 4663 Bridge MIB transfer Transferring MIB Work from IETF Bridge MIB WG to IEEE 802.1 WG The plan for moving future bridge MIB work from the IETF to IEEE 802.1. RFC 4714 IETF publication reqs Requirements for IETF Technical Publication Service What the IETF expects from whoever publishes its standards, written down so it can be put in a contract. RFC 4841 RFC 4181 Update to Recognize the IETF Trust A focused update to RFC 4181's copyright notice templates for the IETF Trust. RFC 4907 Architectural Implications of Link Indications How the link layer can tell higher layers about the link, without making the Internet worse. RFC 5434 Considerations for Having a Successful Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Session Practical advice for preparing, running, and following up an IETF BOF RFC 5612 Enterprise Number for Documentation Use Enterprise Number 32473 is reserved for examples in documentation. RFC 5632 Comcast P4P trial Comcast's ISP Experiences in a Proactive Network Provider Participation for P2P (P4P) Technical Trial What Comcast's 2008 trial found when a cable provider told file-sharing software which peers were nearby. RFC 6574 Smart Object Workshop Report from the Smart Object Workshop What a group of practitioners had to say about running ordinary internet protocols on devices with 2 KB of memory and a tiny battery. RFC 7254 GSMA IMEI URN A Uniform Resource Name Namespace for the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) and the International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI) A standard web-style name for the serial number that identifies a mobile phone. RFC 7475 Increasing the Number of Area Directors in an IETF Area Allows an IETF Area to have more than two Area Directors when needed. RFC 7957 DISPATCH-Style WGs DISPATCH-Style Working Groups and the SIP Change Process Untying the SIP change process from one IETF area, and sharing the DISPATCH way of sorting new work. RFC 8067 Updating When Standards Track Documents May Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level A Best Current Practice update that gives the IESG more flexibility when reviewing downrefs. RFC 8170 Planning for Protocol Adoption and Subsequent Transitions Principles for smooth transitions between network protocols RFC 8700 Fifty years of RFCs Fifty Years of RFCs How the RFC Series began, how it was run, and the questions its editors ask about its next fifty years. RFC 8805 IP geolocation feeds A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds A plain text file where a network operator tells everyone roughly where its IP address ranges are used. RFC 9282 RFC Series Change Responsibility Change for the RFC Series A Best Current Practice deletes an outdated responsibility statement from RFC 2026. RFC 9283 IAB Charter Update IAB Charter Update for RFC Editor Model Updates the IAB Charter to match version 3 of the RFC Editor Model. RFC 1402 Gold in the Networks There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places A 1993 guide to finding the information that was on the network, and the services that would help you find it. RFC 2664 FYI Q&A FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly Asked "New Internet User" Questions A plain-language question and answer sheet that explains the Internet to ordinary new users. RFC 30 NWG Conventions Documentation Conventions Early conventions for writing and distributing Network Working Group notes. RFC 501 Un-muddling "free file transfer" A critique of free file-transfer proposals that separate authentication, file access and accounting. RFC 1087 Ethics and the Internet Ethics and the Internet The Internet Activities Board's policy on responsible use of Internet resources. RFC 2223 RFC authors' guide Instructions to RFC Authors How to prepare a Request for Comments, and the rules for publishing one. RFC 493 Graphics Protocol GRAPHICS PROTOCOL An experimental byte-stream protocol for drawing graphics on a remote console. RFC 3427 SIP change process Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) How a proposal to change SIP gets from an idea to a standard, and how experiments stay out of the way. RFC 3979 IETF IPR Policy Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology The rules that keep patent holders from holding up Internet standards, and make people say what they know. RFC 7437 IETF nomcom IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees How the IETF chooses, confirms and can recall the people who run its working groups. RFC 800 RFC 700-799 index Request For Comments summary notes: 700-799 A short, annotated list of a hundred RFCs, with a note on each one. RFC 1207 FYI Q/A (Experienced) FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "experienced Internet user" questions The questions experienced operators kept asking, and the answers they had worked out. RFC 1216 Gigabit network economics and paradigm shifts An April 1st joke that proposes ultra-low-speed networking as a response to gigabit hype. RFC 1217 Slow Commotion Research Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) An April 1st reply to RFC 1216, proposing deliberately slow and inefficient networks. RFC 1309 Technical Overview of Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol A plain introduction to X.500, the standard for a global directory of people and objects. RFC 1326 Mutual Encapsulation Considered Dangerous A warning that routing loops can make mutually encapsulated packets grow and multiply. RFC 1355 Privacy and Accuracy Issues in Network Information Center Databases Guidelines for public Network Information Center databases and the people listed in them. RFC 1463 FYI on Introducing the Internet-- A Short Bibliography of Introductory Internetworking Readings A short 1993 bibliography for people learning about the Internet and its protocols. RFC 1560 The MultiProtocol Internet The Internet Architecture Board's strawman position on protocol coexistence and on the next version of IP. RFC 1821 Integration of Real-time Services in an IP-ATM Network Architecture Bridging two different approaches to reserving network resources for real-time traffic. RFC 1855 Netiquette Netiquette Guidelines A short rulebook of good manners for email, talk, mailing lists, NetNews and information services. RFC 1879 Class A Subnet Results Class A Subnet Experiment Results and Recommendations What happened when a slice of a Class A network was handed out as subnets, and what routers needed. RFC 1988 HP Patent Grant Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific Hewlett-Packard Patents In Conjunction With the Internet Engineering Task Force's Internet-Standard Network Management Framework A conditional Hewlett-Packard patent grant for certain standards-track network management modules. RFC 2549 Avian Carriers QoS IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service Extending IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service mechanisms RFC 3426 General Architectural and Policy Considerations A checklist of architectural questions for IETF protocol designers. RFC 3724 Future of End-to-End The Rise of the Middle and the Future of End-to-End: Reflections on the Evolution of the Internet Architecture An IAB essay on the Internet's core design rule, and on the pressure put on it by middleboxes and trust RFC 4440 IAB view on the IRTF IAB Thoughts on the Role of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) The Internet Architecture Board's view of what long-term research should look like, and how it relates to standards work. RFC 4845 Process for Publication of IAB RFCs The review and publication process for documents that the IAB publishes as RFCs. RFC 4981 P2P Search Survey Survey of Research towards Robust Peer-to-Peer Networks: Search Methods A survey of how peer-to-peer networks find data, and how well they survive failures. RFC 5594 P2P workshop report Report from the IETF Workshop on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Infrastructure, May 28, 2008 What an IETF workshop on peer-to-peer traffic concluded, and what it left to do. RFC 5704 Uncoordinated Protocol Development Considered Harmful Why two standards bodies writing the same protocol apart is a problem for the Internet. RFC 6175 Datatracker Requirements Requirements to Extend the Datatracker for IETF Working Group Chairs and Authors Features needed for IETF working group chairs to track the state of their drafts in the Datatracker. RFC 6462 Report from the Internet Privacy Workshop How the Internet community approaches privacy in technical standards. RFC 6778 Mail archive reqs Requirements for Archiving IETF Email Lists and for Providing Web-Based Browsing and Searching What a replacement archive for the IETF's mailing lists has to do, so that searching years of discussion is one query. RFC 7282 Rough Consensus On Consensus and Humming in the IETF Why the IETF decides by open issues rather than by votes, and what humming is really for. RFC 7288 Reflections on Host Firewalls Why software gets firewalled instead of fixed, updated, or stopped RFC 7297 IP Connectivity Provisioning Profile (CPP) A standard form for stating what an IP connection must do, so a provider can build it without weeks of meetings. RFC 7305 Report from the IAB Workshop on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition (ITAT) A report from an IAB workshop on why some Internet protocols spread and others stall. RFC 8137 IEEE 802.15.4 Information Element for the IETF How IETF protocols carry their own data in IEEE 802.15.4 low-power radio frames. RFC 8240 IoTSU Workshop Report Report from the Internet of Things Software Update (IoTSU) Workshop 2016 What a 2016 IAB workshop concluded about getting software and firmware updates onto small connected devices. RFC 8464 MEID URN A URN Namespace for Device Identity and Mobile Equipment Identity (MEID) A standard URN name for the identity number that 3GPP2 mobile equipment carries. RFC 8890 The Internet is for users The Internet is for End Users Why the IAB says standards work should favour the people who use the Internet, and how it thinks that can be done. RFC 9064 QoS for ICN Considerations in the Development of a QoS Architecture for CCNx-Like Information-Centric Networking Protocols How quality of service should work in information-centric networks, and why IP's approach does not fit. RFC 9217 Current Open Questions in Path-Aware Networking Eight open research questions about letting endpoints see and choose the paths their traffic takes. RFC 9315 Intent-Based Networking Intent-Based Networking - Concepts and Definitions What intent means in network management, and how it differs from policy and from a service model. RFC 9414 Unfortunate History of Transient Numeric Identifiers How weak choices of transient identifiers kept producing the same failures for more than thirty years. RFC 9415 On the Generation of Transient Numeric Identifiers How to pick transient identifiers so that they stay unique without becoming predictable. RFC 3978 IETF Contribution Rights IETF Rights in Contributions What an author gives up when they send a document to the IETF, and what they keep. RFC 4234 ABNF Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF The compact notation that most Internet specifications use to write down their syntax. RFC 8126 IANA Considerations Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs How to write an IANA Considerations section and choose the rules for handing out protocol numbers and names. RFC 67 Proposed Change to Host/IMP Spec to Eliminate Marking A proposal to send the Host/IMP leader and message text separately to avoid marking problems. RFC 100 Categorization and guide to NWG/RFCs A guide to the early Network Working Group notes and their status in February 1971. RFC 333 Proposed experiment with a Message Switching Protocol An experimental proposal to switch messages between ports using SEND, RECEIVE, and rendezvous hosts. RFC 357 Remote Echoing Echoing strategy for satellite links A proposal to reduce the effect of satellite delay by echoing terminal input at the user's site. RFC 438 FTP FTP server-server interaction An FTP extension proposal for two servers to exchange a file directly. RFC 448 FTP Print files in FTP A discussion of how FTP should represent files with printer format controls. RFC 451 Tentative proposal for a Unified User Level Protocol A tentative proposal to route user-level network services through Telnet. RFC 487 FTP Free file transfer A proposal for allowing FTP access to files marked as available to everyone. RFC 492 Response to RFC 467 A response to proposed fixes for stalled and half-closed Host-Host connections. RFC 516 Lost message detection Three proposals for detecting messages lost by the network communications subsystem. RFC 530 Report on the Survey Project How the SURVEY project checked ARPANET host availability and shared its results. RFC 692 Comments on IMP/Host Protocol changes (RFCs 687 and 690) A proposal to keep revised IMP and Host leaders at a workable combined length. RFC 3716 IETF in the Large IETF in the Large: Administration and Execution How the IETF's leadership and supporting organizations worked together, and what an advisory committee found. RFC 200 RFC list by number An August 1971 index listing the author, title, date, NIC number, and RFC number. RFC 4288 Media type registration Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures The rules for naming, describing and registering media types such as text/plain with IANA. RFC 1602 The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2 The rules by which the IETF turns a working group document into an Internet Standard. RFC 1700 Assigned Numbers Assigned Numbers A 1994 snapshot of the big registry of protocol numbers: IP protocol numbers, ports, ICMP types, ARP codes and much more. RFC 4844 RFC Series The RFC Series and RFC Editor The rules that keep the RFC Series a single series while several different communities feed it. RFC 1060 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers The quarterly status report of the numbers and keywords used in Internet protocols. RFC 62 Systems for Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network A 1970 proposal for message exchange between processes on networked computers. RFC 154 Exposition Style A short note on writing two formulas for a continuous piecewise function. RFC 236 Standard host names A revised table of proposed standard host names and four-character alternatives. RFC 247 Proffered set of standard host names A proposal for forming host names from short site and machine mnemonics. RFC 391 Traffic statistics (August 1972) A table of ARPANET traffic statistics for August 1972. RFC 431 Update on SMFS Login and Logout Login and logout commands for UCSB's Simple Minded File System. RFC 847 Summary of Smallberg surveys A summary of weekly Telnet, FTP, and SMTP server surveys from 1982 and 1983. RFC 9139 ICN over LoWPAN Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Adaptation to Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPANs) Compressing NDN and CCNx messages so they fit in low-power wireless packets. RFC 9531 CCNx path steering Path Steering in Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) and Named Data Networking (NDN) Discovering the path a content request took, then asking for the next one to take the same path. RFC 3552 Security Considerations Guide Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations A tutorial on security terms and attacks, plus the rules for writing a Security Considerations section in an RFC. RFC 760 IP (DoD) DoD Standard Internet Protocol The 1980 DoD Internet Protocol specification for datagrams across connected networks. RFC 10 Documentation conventions Early rules for writing and distributing Network Working Group notes. RFC 1336 Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members Biographies of the people who led the Internet standards work in 1992, collected in one FYI memo. RFC 1703 TPC.INT paging Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Radio Paging -- Technical Procedures How to reach a radio pager by email, by turning the pager's telephone number into a tpc.int domain name. RFC 1758 NADF standing documents NADF Standing Documents: A Brief Overview An overview of the North American Directory Forum's X.500 standing documents. RFC 1941 FAQ for Schools Frequently Asked Questions for Schools A 1996 plain-language Internet primer for teachers and school administrators, written as questions and answers. RFC 3352 CLDAP to Historic Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) to Historic Status Why the connection-less LDAP specification was moved to Historic status. RFC 5385 Word RFC Template Version 2.0 Microsoft Word Template for Creating Internet Drafts and RFCs A Microsoft Word template and post-processing script for writing Internet Drafts and RFCs with what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing. RFC 6254 RFC 2754 to Historic Request to Move RFC 2754 to Historic Status IANA is directed not to carry out the actions requested in RFC 2754. RFC 6360 Conclusion of FYI RFC Sub-Series The IESG closes the FYI RFC sub-series and moves RFC 1150 to Historic. RFC 6393 Moving RFC 4693 to Historic The IETF Operational Notes experiment ended, so RFC 4693 is moved to Historic. RFC 8458 Using National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names How national libraries turn their own local identifiers into permanent names on the Internet. RFC 8721 Trust rights advice Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to Be Granted in IETF Documents What the IETF wants the IETF Trust to let people do with the text and code in its documents. RFC 9592 Retiring the Tao Retiring the Tao of the IETF Why the IETF's guide for newcomers was retired, and what replaces it. RFC 9896 SVG in RFCs SVG in RFCs Policy for SVG drawings in RFCs, with tooling decisions assigned to the RFC Production Center. RFC 3683 IETF List Revocation A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists How the IETF can remove a disruptive person's right to post to its mailing lists. RFC 9280 RFC Editor Model v3 RFC Editor Model (Version 3) Who writes the rules for the RFC Series, who approves them, and who turns them into published documents. RFC 3066 Language Tags Tags for the Identification of Languages How language tags are formed, how to register new ones, and how to match one tag against another. RFC 66 NIC - third level ideas and other noise A 1970 note describing a proposed remote logger connection and a shared console format. RFC 1340 Assigned Numbers Assigned Numbers The 1992 master list of protocol numbers, port numbers, multicast groups and other values that Internet protocols agree on. RFC 3005 IETF Discussion List Charter The charter for the IETF's general discussion mailing list. RFC 7235 HTTP Authentication Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication The challenge-response authentication framework for HTTP RFC 39 Comments on Protocol Re: NWG/RFC #36 RAND's suggested additions and concerns about the protocol described in RFC 36. RFC 46 ARPA Network protocol notes A proposed layered design for the ARPA Network's host-to-host protocol. RFC 53 Official protocol mechanism A six-step process for proposing and approving the official Host-Host protocol. RFC 55 Prototypical implementation of the NCP A prose example of how a Network Control Program could be organized. RFC 57 Thoughts and Reflections on NWG/RFC 54 Proposals to distinguish NCP errors from resource overflow and recover after host crashes. RFC 93 ICP Initial Connection Protocol A short clarification about the first message in the Initial Connection Protocol. RFC 234 Network Working Group meeting schedule The schedule for the October 1971 Network Working Group meeting in Cambridge. RFC 322 Well-Known Sockets Well known socket numbers A request for each host to report socket numbers used by its network services. RFC 328 Suggested Telnet Protocol Changes A proposal to remove three features from the Telnet protocol unless users objected. RFC 346 Satellite Considerations A warning that satellite paths could add delay to interactive ARPANET sessions. RFC 347 Echo Echo process A suggested service that returns received data unchanged for debugging and measurement. RFC 348 Discard Discard Process A voluntary Discard process for network debugging and measurement. RFC 369 Evaluation of ARPANET services January-March, 1972 A UCSB group evaluates ARPANET services from the viewpoint of new users. RFC 377 Using TSO via ARPA Network Virtual Terminal Instructions for connecting to UCLA-CCN's IBM Time Sharing Option over Telnet. RFC 392 Measurement of host costs for transmitting network data Utah measures the TENEX CPU effort involved in transferring data over the network. RFC 418 Server File Transfer Under TSS/360 At NASA-Ames Research Center How NASA Ames adapted FTP server commands to TSS/360 files and catalogs. RFC 430 FTP Comments on File Transfer Protocol A report on a 1973 FTP meeting about server transfers, file types, and site-specific parameters. RFC 435 Telnet Telnet issues A discussion of Telnet echoing and broader principles for negotiating options. RFC 436 Announcement of RJS at UCSB A notice that UCSB offered a server for basic Remote Job Entry operations. RFC 459 Network questionnaires A complaint about the time that repeated network questionnaires required from sites. RFC 473 MIX and MIXAL? A question asking whether ARPANET hosts offered tools for Knuth's MIX computer. RFC 494 Availability of MIX and MIXAL in the Network A summary of reported locations for MIX and MIXAL software on the Network. RFC 512 More on lost message detection A proposal to detect lost host messages with a Sequence Control Byte in each message. RFC 522 Traffic Statistics (May 1973) BBN's host-by-host packet counts for ARPANET traffic in May 1973. RFC 529 Telnet Note on protocol synch sequences An argument for defining separate synchronization sequences at different protocol levels. RFC 531 Feast or famine? A response to two recent RFC's about network information A reply to two different complaints about finding and providing network information. RFC 556 Traffic Statistics (July 1973) BBN's host-by-host packet counts for ARPANET traffic in July 1973. RFC 557 REVELATIONS IN NETWORK HOST MEASUREMENTS A follow-up report on measurements of TENEX network-transfer performance. RFC 586 Traffic statistics (October 1973) Host-by-host packet output statistics for the ARPANET in October 1973. RFC 660 Some changes to the IMP and the IMP/Host interface Four planned changes to ARPANET message handling and the IMP/Host interface. RFC 696 Comments on the IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol changes Comments on a proposed international packet header and its fit with ARPANET protocols. RFC 1818 BCP Series Best Current Practices The memo that established the Best Current Practices RFC subseries. RFC 5785 Well-Known URIs Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) The reserved path prefix that lets a site publish one piece of standard information at a fixed address. RFC 3864 Header Registration Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields How message header field names for mail, HTTP and netnews get recorded in IANA registries. RFC 99 Network Meeting A notice giving the place, time and room-reservation plan for a Network Working Group meeting. RFC 899 Request For Comments summary notes: 800-899 An annotated index to 100 RFCs from 1982-1984, a period of rapid internet growth. RFC 1121 Act One Poems Act one - the poems A collection of poems celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ARPANET. RFC 1135 Internet Worm Helminthiasis of the Internet A comprehensive look at the 1988 Internet worm incident and its aftermath RFC 1169 GOSIP Role Explaining the role of GOSIP Clarifying how the U.S. government's OSI profile relates to Internet evolution. RFC 1193 Client requirements for real-time communication services What applications need from networks to deliver live audio, video, and time-sensitive data RFC 1221 HAP v2 Host Access Protocol (HAP) specification: Version 2 The network-layer protocol hosts used to reach the Terrestrial Wideband Network, with datagrams, guaranteed streams and multicast groups. RFC 1257 Isochronous applications do not require jitter-controlled networks An argument that bounded delay and bandwidth can support isochronous applications. RFC 1262 Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities IAB guidance for planning Internet measurement activities with care. RFC 1300 Remembrances of Things Past Remembrances of Things Past A poem that plays on changing meanings of computing and networking words. RFC 1306 Experiences Supporting By-Request Circuit-Switched T3 Networks Connecting supercomputers with on-demand high-speed circuits RFC 1324 A Discussion on Computer Network Conferencing Defining standards for online real-time chat and conferencing RFC 1335 A Two-Tier Address Structure for the Internet: A Solution to the Problem of Address Space Exhaustion A two-tier scheme to stretch the 32-bit IP address space by separating global and private addresses. RFC 1396 POISED The Process for Organization of Internet Standards Working Group (POISED) How the IETF rewrote the rules for choosing its own leaders in the winter of 1992. RFC 1432 Recent Internet Books A guide to books about the Internet and its networks as of 1993. RFC 1498 On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations A framework for understanding how networks name and locate destinations RFC 1580 Guide to Network Resource Tools A 1994 guide to network tools for exploring and sharing Internet resources. RFC 1640 POISED The Process for Organization of Internet Standards Working Group (POISED) Redesigning how the Internet standards community makes decisions. RFC 1667 DIS for IPng Modeling and Simulation Requirements for IPng Real-time, multicast, and reliability needs for military simulations. RFC 1671 IPng Transition IPng White Paper on Transition and Other Considerations Key requirements for switching from IPv4 to the next-generation Internet protocol. RFC 1677 Tactical Radio Frequency Communication Requirements for IPng Requirements for military radio networks to support the next Internet Protocol RFC 1679 HPN Working Group Input to the IPng Requirements Solicitation Naval requirements for the new Internet protocol generation. RFC 1686 IPng cable TV view IPng Requirements: A Cable Television Industry Viewpoint Requirements for the next-generation IP from the cable television industry perspective. RFC 1689 Networked info retrieval A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups A 1994 snapshot of the tools, people and groups behind finding information on the early Internet. RFC 1698 OSI upper layers Octet Sequences for Upper-Layer OSI to Support Basic Communications Applications The exact byte sequences for basic OSI communications over Session, Presentation, and ACSE. RFC 1705 TCPng Six Virtual Inches to the Left: The Problem with IPng A proposal to make TCP and UDP protocol-independent by adding a transport layer address. RFC 1726 IPng criteria Technical Criteria for Choosing IP The Next Generation (IPng) Technical requirements and evaluation criteria for the next generation of IP RFC 1727 A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service A blueprint for tying Gopher, WAIS, the Web and the rest into one information service. RFC 1728 Resource transponders Resource Transponders Automatic agents that keep resource directories up to date when files move. RFC 1761 Snoop capture format Snoop Version 2 Packet Capture File Format How Sun's snoop tool stores captured network packets on disk, so other programs can read and write the same files. RFC 1796 Not All RFCs are Standards Not All RFCs are Standards An explanation of why publication in the RFC series does not make a document a standard. RFC 1822 A Grant of Rights to Use a Specific IBM patent with Photuris IBM's public grant concerning use of a patent with the Photuris key management protocol. RFC 1862 Report of the IAB Workshop on Internet Information Infrastructure, October 12-14, 1994 Report from IAB workshop on Internet information architecture and infrastructure RFC 2007 Training Catalogue Catalogue of Network Training Materials A guide to quality network training materials for Internet educators and users. RFC 2100 The Naming of Hosts An April 1st poem about the difficulty of choosing hostnames. RFC 2235 Hobbes' Internet Timeline A year-by-year timeline of Internet history from 1957 to 1997, with growth tables for hosts, the Web and Usenet. RFC 2325 Coffee MIB Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2 An April 1st joke defining SNMP management objects for coffee equipment. RFC 2339 An Agreement Between the Internet Society, the IETF, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the matter of NFS V.4 Protocols The agreement that allowed Sun's NFS specifications to enter the IETF standards process. RFC 2360 Guide for Internet Standards Writers A checklist of habits that make a protocol specification clear enough for separate teams to build interoperable implementations. RFC 2438 Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track How the IESG decides whether a MIB specification has been implemented enough to move up the standards track. RFC 2550 Y10K Y10K and Beyond An April 1st joke that invents a date format for years beyond 9999. RFC 2691 ICANN PSO MoU A Memorandum of Understanding for an ICANN Protocol Support Organization The signed agreement that created ICANN's Protocol Support Organization RFC 2795 IMPS The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) An April 1st joke that specifies protocols for managing an infinite number of typing monkeys. RFC 2956 Overview of 1999 IAB Network Layer Workshop A workshop report on the future of the Internet's core delivery layer. RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo" An April 1st account of the origins and uses of foo, bar, and foobar. RFC 3349 BEEP transient prefix A Transient Prefix for Identifying Profiles under Development by the Working Groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force How IETF working groups name BEEP profiles while they are still drafts, before IANA hands out a permanent identifier. RFC 3541 Web3D URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Web3D Consortium (Web3D) A permanent name registry for 3D web documents and resources. RFC 3718 A Summary of Unicode Consortium Procedures, Policies, Stability, and Public Access How the Unicode Consortium decides what characters exist RFC 3774 IETF Problem Statement An analysis of problems in IETF structure and processes from the community's own feedback. RFC 4144 How to Gain Prominence and Influence in Standards Organizations Simple guidelines for gaining prominence and influence in standards organizations RFC 4358 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) A namespace for the Open Mobile Alliance to uniquely name mobile specifications and resources. RFC 4691 IETF liaison guidelines Guidelines for Acting as an IETF Liaison to Another Organization Guidelines for people who speak on behalf of the IETF to other standards organizations. RFC 4858 Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication Delegating document oversight to the working group level speeds up IETF publication RFC 5249 Templates for Internet-Drafts Containing MIB Modules Three templates for Internet-Drafts that contain MIB module definitions. RFC 5615 H.248/MEGACO Registration Procedures How new H.248/MEGACO packages, error codes, reasons and profile names get reviewed before IANA records them. RFC 5694 P2P architectures Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Architecture: Definition, Taxonomies, Examples, and Applicability A working definition of peer-to-peer, the ways such systems are classified, and when they pay off. RFC 6067 BCP 47 Extension U Extending language tags with Unicode locale data RFC 6322 Datatracker States and Annotations for the IAB, IRTF, and Independent Submission Streams Tracking drafts from the IAB, IRTF, and independent authors through to publication as RFCs. RFC 6385 Gen-ART General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) Experiences How a volunteer review team helps ensure IETF documents are ready for publication. RFC 6433 WG milestones tool Requirements for a Working Group Milestones Tool What IETF chairs and Area Directors would need from a tool that creates and updates working group milestones. RFC 6701 IETF IPR Sanctions Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy What the IETF does when a participant does not disclose intellectual property that matters for the work. RFC 6771 Bar BOF Considerations for Having a Successful "Bar BOF" Side Meeting Advice for running unofficial IETF side meetings that actually help develop new work. RFC 6924 Registration of Second-Level URN Namespaces under "ietf" Creates one IANA registry for sub-namespaces under the IETF URN namespace. RFC 7127 Characterization of Proposed Standards Updates the IETF's description of the maturity and review of Proposed Standards. RFC 7168 HTCPCP-TEA The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA) An April 1st joke extends the coffee-pot control protocol to tea appliances. RFC 7354 Update to the Registrant Information for the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace Updates the registrant information for the DVB URN namespace. RFC 7418 An IRTF Primer for IETF Participants Understanding how research groups differ from engineering groups RFC 7576 Autonomic Gap Analysis General Gap Analysis for Autonomic Networking What a self-managing network would still be missing, and the mechanisms it would have to be built on. RFC 7669 Assigning Digital Object Identifiers to RFCs Persistent identifiers for RFCs in scholarly publishing RFC 7687 STRINT Workshop Report Report from the Strengthening the Internet (STRINT) Workshop How to strengthen the Internet against mass surveillance RFC 7933 ICN Video Streaming Adaptive Video Streaming over Information-Centric Networking (ICN) How video streaming protocols must adapt to work over Information-Centric Networks. RFC 7962 Alternative Networks Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, Characterization, Technologies, and Architectures How communities and organizations build their own Internet infrastructure. RFC 7980 A Framework for Defining Network Complexity Understanding and measuring complexity in network design. RFC 7998 "xml2rfc" Version 3 Preparation Tool Description What the xml2rfc v3 prep tool does to an author's XML before it becomes an Internet-Draft or an RFC. RFC 8073 CARIS Workshop Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale (CARIS) Workshop Report Report on coordinating attack response at Internet scale RFC 8153 Digital Preservation Considerations for the RFC Series How to preserve RFCs as digital technology changes. RFC 8165 Design Considerations for Metadata Insertion Why endpoints should add metadata themselves instead of letting intermediaries do it. RFC 8465 Using the Mobile Equipment Identity (MEID) URN as an Instance ID Using mobile device IDs as unique identifiers in SIP networks. RFC 8592 KPI Stamping NSH Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Stamping for the Network Service Header (NSH) Monitoring latency and quality of service in service function chains. RFC 8743 MAMS Multiple Access Management Services Multi-Access Management Services (MAMS) Framework for intelligent path selection when devices have multiple network connections RFC 8752 IAB ESCAPE report Report from the IAB Workshop on Exploring Synergy between Content Aggregation and the Publisher Ecosystem (ESCAPE) Workshop proceedings on Web Packaging, content aggregation, and the publisher ecosystem. RFC 8789 IETF rough consensus IETF Stream Documents Require IETF Rough Consensus Requires rough consensus before publishing RFCs on the IETF Stream. RFC 8874 GitHub Guidelines Working Group GitHub Usage Guidance Best practices for IETF working groups using GitHub for standards development. RFC 8875 WG GitHub Admin Working Group GitHub Administration Conventions for IETF working groups using GitHub to manage their work. RFC 9137 Cancelling IETF Meetings Considerations for Cancellation of IETF Meetings How the IETF decides whether to move, virtualize, postpone or cancel an in-person meeting when events get in the way. RFC 9138 ICN Name Resolution Design Considerations for Name Resolution Service in Information-Centric Networking (ICN) How to translate persistent data names into network locations in Information-Centric Networking. RFC 9311 IETF Hackathons Running an IETF Hackathon Practical guide to organizing collaborative code events RFC 9340 Architectural Principles for a Quantum Internet A framework for networks that distribute quantum entanglement between distant nodes. RFC 9413 Maintaining Robust Protocols Evolving specifications and implementations to preserve long-term protocol interoperability. RFC 9501 Open participation Open Participation Principle regarding Remote Registration Fee The IETF principle that every meeting must offer a free way to take part remotely. RFC 9518 Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards What role can standards play in resisting the concentration of Internet control? RFC 9620 HRPC guidelines Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations A questionnaire for protocol designers on how their technical choices can help or harm human rights on the Internet. RFC 3272 Traffic Engineering Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering A framework for measuring, modelling and steering traffic so IP networks use their capacity well and avoid congestion. RFC 6890 Special-Purpose IPs Special-Purpose IP Address Registries One common table format for every IPv4 and IPv6 address block set aside for a special purpose. RFC 1603 IETF WG Guidelines IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures The 1994 rulebook for how IETF working groups are formed, run, and wound down. RFC 2727 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees The rulebook for how the Internet's standards leaders are picked, confirmed and, if needed, recalled. RFC 1010 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers The official registry of Internet protocol numbers, ports, and addresses. RFC 3932 The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: Procedures How the IETF's leadership reviews documents submitted for independent RFC publication. RFC 5741 RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates How RFC documents are labeled and what their front matter means. RFC 1543 Instructions to RFC Authors A 1993 style guide telling authors how to format, label and submit an RFC. RFC 990 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers The November 1986 edition of the Internet's master list of assigned protocol numbers, ports and addresses. RFC 3934 Updates to RFC 2418 Regarding the Management of IETF Mailing Lists A working-group chair can temporarily suspend disruptive mailing-list posting. RFC 214 Network checkpoint A dated report of protocol checks performed on ARPANET hosts in August 1971. RFC 273 More on standard host names A proposed host-naming scheme with formal names and optional nicknames. RFC 359 Status of the Release of the New IMP System (2600) A June 1972 update on repeated attempts to bring the new IMP system online. RFC 384 Official site idents for organizations in the ARPA Network Lists official site identifiers and network addresses for ARPA Network organizations. RFC 423 UCLA Campus Computing Network Liaison Staff for ARPANET Lists UCLA Campus Computing Network contacts for ARPANET users. RFC 476 IMP/TIP memory retrofit schedule (rev 2) A revised schedule for adding core memory to ARPANET IMPs and TIPs. RFC 704 IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol change Sketches an expanded IMP/host protocol with larger addresses and gradual compatibility. RFC 774 Internet Protocol Handbook: Table of contents A draft table of contents for a planned Internet Protocol Handbook. RFC 1039 DoD statement on Open Systems Interconnection protocols Reproduces a DoD memo adopting OSI protocols as experimental co-standards. RFC 1307 DSLCP Dynamically Switched Link Control Protocol Protocol for a host to control circuit-switched network links. RFC 6919 Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels An April 1st joke that invents extra RFC requirement phrases. RFC 9507 ICN Traceroute Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Traceroute Protocol Specification Discover paths through name-based networks the way traceroute maps IP networks. RFC 9508 ICN Ping Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Ping Protocol Specification Test reachability and measure latency in name-based networks. RFC 8711 IASA 2.0 Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity, Version 2.0 How the IETF's money, staff and legal home are organised under the IETF LLC and its Board. RFC 3668 IETF IPR rules Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology The rules for telling the IETF about patents and other rights that may cover a proposed technology. RFC 4371 BCP 101 Update for IPR Trust Updates BCP 101 to account for the IETF Trust holding and licensing IETF intellectual property. RFC 1111 RFC Author Guide Request for comments on Request for Comments: Instructions to RFC authors Instructions for writing RFCs in consistent formats. RFC 7996 SVG RFC SVG Drawings for RFCs: SVG 1.2 RFC A black-and-white, no-frills subset of SVG for line drawings in RFCs. RFC 1310 Standards Process The Internet Standards Process How Internet protocols evolve from proposals to official standards. RFC 1601 Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) How the Internet Architecture Board is composed, selected, and organized. RFC 687 IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol changes A 1975 design sketch for expanding the IMP/host protocol while retaining old formats. RFC 3667 IETF Rights in Contributions The IETF's rulebook for what rights authors give away, and keep, when they submit a document. RFC 4748 RFC 3978 Update to Recognize the IETF Trust Updates the IETF contribution-rights document to recognize the IETF Trust. RFC 9141 Updating References to the IETF FTP Service Replaces dead ftp:// links to the IETF FTP service in older RFCs with HTTPS links to the same material. RFC 1325 FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions A guide for new Internet users answering frequently asked questions RFC 1417 NADF NADF Standing Documents: A Brief Overview A guide to the North American Directory Forum's cooperative directory documents. RFC 6635 RFC Editor Model v2 RFC Editor Model (Version 2) Dividing RFC Series responsibilities among three entities RFC 1140 IAB Standards List IAB official protocol standards Updated listing of Internet protocol standardization status RFC 3000 Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of Internet protocol standards as of October 2001. RFC 2978 Charset Registration IANA Charset Registration Procedures The rules and review steps for getting a character set name and number added to the IANA charset registry. RFC 5742 IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions How the IESG reviews documents from outside the main IETF track RFC 7120 Early Allocation Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points How a draft can get IANA code points reserved before it becomes an RFC, without early implementers guessing values. RFC 2 Host software A working outline for host links, message checks, and network monitoring. RFC 5 DEL Decode Encode Language (DEL) A working paper on a language for interactive communication across the ARPA network. RFC 15 Network subsystem for time sharing hosts A proposal for terminal access to remote time-sharing hosts using Telnet. RFC 23 Transmission of Multiple Control Messages Send multiple control messages together instead of one at a time. RFC 28 Time Standards A one-paragraph request from SRI: how accurate should a network-wide clock be? RFC 38 Comments on Network Protocol from NWG/RFC #36 A comment proposing that several connections share one ARPANET link. RFC 40 More Comments on the Forthcoming Protocol Proposals for protocol error messages, connection queries, and NCP host status. RFC 44 Comments on NWG/RFC 33 and 36 Suggestions to simplify connection handling in the proposed Host-to-Host protocol. RFC 47 BBN's Comments on NWG/RFC #33 BBN's comments on buffering and traffic flow in the proposed host protocol. RFC 63 Belated Network Meeting Report Decisions on record formats from a May 1970 Network Working Group meeting. RFC 65 Comments on Host/Host Protocol document #1 D. C. Walden's comments on a 1970 host-to-host protocol draft. RFC 69 Distribution List Change for MIT A short request to change the recipients on an MIT distribution list. RFC 78 NCP Status Report: UCSB/Rand Results of console-to-console NCP testing between UCSB and RAND. RFC 87 Topic for Discussion at the Next Network Working Group Meeting A request to plan an April 1971 meeting about network graphics. RFC 106 User/Server Site Protocol Network Host Questionnaire A ten-question survey for learning how ARPANET hosts handled terminals and character input. RFC 108 Attendance list at the Urbana NWG meeting, February 17-19, 1971 An attendance list for the February 1971 Urbana Network Working Group meeting. RFC 112 User/Server Site Protocol: Network Host Questionnaire A summary of ARPANET host questionnaire responses about terminal support. RFC 115 Some Network Information Center policies on handling documents NIC policies for cataloging, identifying, and revising network documents. RFC 124 Typographical error in RFC 107 A one-sentence correction to RFC 107. RFC 130 Response to RFC 111: Pressure from the chairman A reply explaining why implementation schedules awaited a TELNET specification. RFC 131 Response to RFC 116: May NWG meeting Rand's report on its network software, computing plans, and views of the Network Working Group. RFC 134 Network Graphics meeting An announcement for the July 1971 Network Graphics Meeting at MIT's Endicott House. RFC 149 Best Laid Plans A revised agenda and reading correction for an NWG meeting. RFC 225 Rand/UCSB network graphics experiment A progress report on using UCSB's On-Line System from Rand graphics consoles. RFC 227 Data transfer rates (Rand/UCLA) Measured file-transfer rates between Rand and UCLA, with a note on blocking. RFC 231 Service center standards for remote usage: A user's view A user's view of common procedures for ARPANET service centers. RFC 302 Exercising The ARPANET A UCSB study of the questions new users encounter on the ARPANET. RFC 325 NETRJS Network Remote Job Entry program - NETRJS A program for submitting jobs to UCLA's Remote Job Service from Utah TENEX. RFC 338 EBCDIC/ASCII Mapping for Network RJE Updated character mappings for NETRJS users with ASCII, EBCDIC, and Teletype terminals. RFC 364 Serving remote users on the ARPANET Suggestions for helping remote users find information and support at service hosts. RFC 365 TIP Users Letter Letter to All TIP Users A BBN letter on TIP commands, buffers, echoing and user support. RFC 376 Network Host Status A weekly table of ARPANET host reachability tests and status reports. RFC 388 NCP statistics A method for hosts to send daily NCP statistics to UCLA-NMC. RFC 398 UCSB Online Graphics A directory of UCSB graphics sockets for IMLAC, TEKTRONIX and Level 0 users. RFC 400 Traffic Statistics (September 1972) Host packet-output totals for the ARPANET in September 1972. RFC 401 Conversion of NGP-0 Coordinates to Device Specific Coordinates An integer method for mapping NGP-0 fractions to device screen coordinates. RFC 405 Correction to RFC 404 A correction to the IMP address given in RFC 404. RFC 406 Scheduled IMP Software Releases A reminder of the IMP maintenance window and host warning messages. RFC 413 Traffic statistics (October 1972) October 1972 ARPANET packet statistics, including the ICCC demonstration period. RFC 415 Tenex bandwidth A TENEX test of network throughput and the CPU used for transfers. RFC 422 Traffic statistics (November 1972) BBN's host-by-host packet counts for ARPANET traffic in November 1972. RFC 426 Reconnection Protocol A proposed method for moving one or both ends of a connection to another host. RFC 429 Chargen Character Generator Process A proposed process that sends characters for network testing RFC 440 Scheduled network software maintenance A longer weekly window for scheduled IMP software maintenance. RFC 449 Current flow-control scheme for IMPSYS A note directing readers to formal sources on IMPSYS flow control. RFC 455 Traffic statistics (January 1973) BBN's host-by-host packet counts for ARPANET traffic in January 1973. RFC 460 NCP survey A questionnaire about how network sites built their Network Control Programs. RFC 462 Responding to user needs A proposal to let network sites maintain information about their own services. RFC 464 Resource notebook framework A framework for coordinating the collection and sharing of network resource information. RFC 468 FTP FTP data compression A proposed FTP mode that encodes repeated bytes and filler more compactly. RFC 474 Announcement of NGWG meeting: Call for papers A notice proposing an Illinois meeting for the Network Graphics Working Group. RFC 485 MIX and MIXAL at UCSB A UCSB report on a MIXAL assembler and a partly debugged MIX simulator. RFC 491 What is "Free"? A proposal for making network mail free without requiring a different login at each host. RFC 505 FTP Two solutions to a file transfer access problem Two proposals for sending a file without knowing the recipient's password. RFC 513 Telnet Comments on the new Telnet specifications Comments on the proposed Telnet protocol and option specifications. RFC 514 Network make-work A complaint about repeated information requests burdening small network sites. RFC 519 Resource Evaluation A UCSB test group's evaluation of Network resources and proposals for concise user manuals. RFC 520 FAP Memo to FTP group: Proposal for File Access Protocol A proposed FTP extension for reading or writing selected parts of a remote file. RFC 525 MIT-MATHLAB meets UCSB-OLS -an example of resource sharing An experiment that moved mathematical expressions from MIT MATHLAB to UCSB OLS. RFC 533 Message-ID numbers A wider IMP/Host field that can identify individual messages rather than only links. RFC 534 Lost message detection How the message-id bits could help hosts detect lost messages and retransmit them. RFC 568 Response to RFC 567 - cross country network bandwidth A correction to packet-size estimates in a discussion of remote echoing and network bandwidth. RFC 582 Comments on RFC 580: Machine readable protocols A request for a general way to convert formatted text into NLS files. RFC 601 Traffic statistics (November 1973) Host-by-host ARPANET packet output statistics for November 1973. RFC 613 Network connectivity: A response to RFC 603 A response arguing that network reliability depends on the connections left after a node fails. RFC 663 Lost message detection and recovery protocol A proposed Host-to-Host extension for detecting lost messages and coordinating recovery. RFC 672 Multi-site data collection facility A protocol for sending data to multiple possible collectors without recording it twice. RFC 674 Procedure call documents: Version 2 An announcement of the second version of the National Software Works procedure-call document set. RFC 684 Commentary on procedure calling as a network protocol A critique of using procedure calls as the foundation for distributed systems. RFC 694 Protocol information A directory of ARPANET protocols, documents, contacts and recent developments. RFC 714 Host-Host Protocol for an ARPANET-Type Network A proposed host protocol combining full-duplex connections with sequence-based flow control. RFC 722 Thoughts on Interactions in Distributed Services Design principles for reliable interactions between programs providing a network service. RFC 871 Perspective on the ARPANET reference model Explaining the architectural principles behind ARPANET and TCP/IP. RFC 874 X.25 critique Critique of X.25 Identifying fundamental design flaws in a widely adopted network interface. RFC 902 ARPA Internet Protocol policy How the ARPA-Internet research community adopted official protocol standards. RFC 980 Protocol document order information A guide to obtaining protocol standards documents for the DARPA research community. RFC 1077 Critical issues in high bandwidth networking Research agenda for gigabit-speed networks and high-bandwidth applications RFC 3160 Tao of IETF The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force A practical guide to understanding IETF meetings, working groups, and the Internet standards process. RFC 3356 IETF/ITU-T collaboration Internet Engineering Task Force and International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunications Standardization Sector Collaboration Guidelines How two major standards organizations coordinate their work on overlapping topics. RFC 4677 Tao of the IETF The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force A guide to how the IETF works, its meetings, and the standards process RFC 7729 ForCES FE Management Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Logical Functional Block (LFB) Subsidiary Management A ForCES building block that lets a control element configure the forwarding element itself: its CEs, its LFB classes and its debug logging. RFC 943 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers A registry of numbers and addresses used in Internet protocols. RFC 1100 IAB Standards List IAB official protocol standards The IAB's framework for standardizing Internet protocols RFC 2200 Official Protocols List Internet Official Protocol Standards How Internet protocols move through stages to become standards. RFC 1292 A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations A reference list of X.500 directory software implementations and their capabilities. RFC 5620 RFC Editor model v1 RFC Editor Model (Version 1) Organizing the RFC editing, publishing and series management into four specialized roles. RFC 8318 IAOC Advisor for NomCom IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: IAOC Advisor for the Nominating Committee Advising the Nominating Committee about IETF administration RFC 8788 2020 NomCom eligibility Eligibility for the 2020-2021 Nominating Committee A one-time NomCom eligibility interpretation for the 2020-2021 cycle. RFC 1206 FYI Q/A (New Users) FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "new Internet user" questions Frequently asked questions about the Internet for newcomers. RFC 1594 FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions A 1994 beginner's FAQ for the Internet: what it is, where documents live, which services exist and how to use them. RFC 2282 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees The rulebook for electing Internet standards leaders. RFC 8728 RFC Editor model v2 RFC Editor Model (Version 2) How the RFC Editor is organized into specialized roles and oversight. RFC 790 Assigned numbers An early catalog of assigned network, protocol, and port numbers. RFC 4622 XMPP IRIs and URIs Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) URLs and internationalized links for instant messaging and presence systems RFC 4053 Liaison Statements Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETF How the IETF receives, tracks, answers and sends official letters to other standards bodies. RFC 6648 X- Prefix Deprecation Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols Why new protocol parameters should stop being named with an X- prefix, and what to do instead. RFC 8717 IASA 2.0 terminology IETF Administrative Support Activity 2.0: Consolidated Updates to IETF Administrative Terminology How IASA 2.0 reorganized IETF's administrative structure and what changed in the terminology RFC 758 Assigned numbers Registry of numbers assigned for use in internet protocols and networks. RFC 870 Assigned numbers The early registry of assigned network numbers, protocol identifiers, and port numbers RFC 923 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers Registry of assigned values for Internet protocols and network addresses RFC 960 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers Updated registry of protocol numbers, addresses, ports, and network identifiers as of December 1985 RFC 1358 Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) The founding rules of the Internet technical advisory board. RFC 5377 Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to Be Granted in IETF Documents Guiding principles for intellectual property rights in IETF documents. RFC 6722 Tao of the IETF Publishing the "Tao of the IETF" as a Web Page How the Tao of the IETF moved from RFCs to a maintained web page. RFC 739 Assigned numbers A 1977 catalog of assigned link, socket, network, and message numbers. RFC 6557 Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database Who looks after the Time Zone Database, how changes get made, and how a new maintainer is chosen. RFC 7249 Internet Numbers Registries The official registries that track Internet address space allocations. RFC 7299 Object Identifier Registry for the PKIX Working Group A registry of object identifiers allocated to the PKIX Working Group. RFC 11 Implementation of the Host - Host Software Procedures in GORDO How the GORDO operating system implemented host-to-host network procedures. RFC 226 Standardization of host mnemonics A 1971 proposal to give every Telnet program the same short names for network hosts. RFC 1150 FYI Introduction FYI on FYI: Introduction to the FYI Notes An introduction to FYI notes as an informational subseries of RFCs. RFC 503 Socket number list A registry of socket numbers and the network services assigned to them RFC 900 Assigned Numbers Assigned Numbers Official registry of protocol numbers, port assignments, and network identifiers RFC 991 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols The 1986 reference for official Internet protocols and their status. RFC 1280 IAB Protocol Standards IAB Official Protocol Standards The IAB's official list of Internet protocol standards and their status. RFC 1360 IAB Standards IAB Official Protocol Standards The official status and maturity of Internet protocols RFC 1540 Internet Official Protocol Standards The authoritative guide to Internet protocol standardization RFC 1780 Official Standards list Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's map of protocol standardization status. RFC 1920 Official Protocol Stds Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's inventory of protocol standardization status. RFC 2300 Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's periodic snapshot of which protocols are standards. RFC 2600 Official Standards List Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of which Internet protocols had official status as of March 2000. RFC 5000 Protocol Standards Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of internet standards as of February 2008 RFC 3936 Procedures for Modifying the Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP) The rulebook for who may change RSVP and how new message types, object classes and error codes get their numbers. RFC 6309 IANA Rules for MIKEY (Multimedia Internet KEYing) Loosens the sign-up rules for the MIKEY key-management protocol's IANA registries, so new values need less ceremony. RFC 1295 User Bill of Rights for entries and listings in the Public Directory Rights for people listed in public directories. RFC 1366 Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space Guidelines for fairly allocating IP addresses to regions and organizations. RFC 1392 Internet Glossary Internet Users' Glossary A 1993 dictionary of Internet terms, written for people who had just arrived. RFC 1714 RWhois Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois) A distributed system for looking up network and domain registration information RFC 3184 IETF Guidelines for Conduct Guidelines for respectful, reasoned, and prepared participation in the IETF. RFC 5633 NomCom early notice Nominating Committee Process: Earlier Announcement of Open Positions and Solicitation of Volunteers Allow the IETF to request NomCom volunteers before its chair is named. RFC 5680 The Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees Allows the IETF Nominating Committee to disclose the list of volunteers willing to serve in leadership positions. RFC 6859 Update to RFC 3777 to Clarify Nominating Committee Eligibility of IETF Leadership Clarifies which IETF leadership members may serve on the NomCom. RFC 1539 Tao of IETF The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force A newcomer's guide to understanding the IETF and attending its meetings. RFC 1718 Tao of IETF The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force An updated guide for newcomers to the IETF meetings and organization. RFC 4775 Procedures for Protocol Extensions and Variations Guidance for vendors and other standards bodies on when and how to get IETF review before extending an IETF protocol. RFC 6548 Independent Submission Editor Model The role and responsibilities of the Independent Submission Editor. RFC 1871 IETF Variance Procedure Addendum to RFC 1602 -- Variance Procedure A public procedure for handling cases where IETF rules do not work RFC 750 Assigned numbers A consolidated list of number assignments used by network protocols RFC 755 Assigned numbers An updated registry of numbers assigned to network protocols in 1979 RFC 924 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols for connecting personal computers to the Internet The official Internet protocols catalog for 1984. RFC 944 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols The 1985 update to the official Internet protocols catalog. RFC 961 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols A status report on the official Internet protocols and their implementation status in late 1985. RFC 999 RFC Notes 900-999 Requests For Comments summary notes: 900-999 An annotated summary of the contents of RFCs 900 through 999, serving as a reference guide to a hundred RFCs. RFC 1020 Internet Numbers Internet numbers The official record of assigned IP networks and autonomous system numbers. RFC 1500 Internet Standards Internet Official Protocol Standards The authoritative registry of Internet protocol standards and their status. RFC 1600 Internet Standards 1994 Internet Official Protocol Standards The official record of Internet protocol standards and their standardization status. RFC 2000 Official Standards List Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of protocol standardization status in early 1997 RFC 2400 Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's updated list of Internet protocol standards for late 1998. RFC 2700 Internet Official Protocol Standards The IETF's snapshot of which protocols were standards in 2000. RFC 2900 Internet Official Protocol Standards The IETF's snapshot of standards and best practices as of summer 2001. RFC 1251 Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members Biographies of the Internet's leadership in 1991. RFC 1290 There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places A practical guide to finding information and resources on the early Internet. RFC 1578 FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly Asked "Primary and Secondary School Internet User" Questions A Q&A guide for schools connecting to the Internet RFC 2027 IAB/IESG Selection IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees How the IETF community selects and recalls its leaders RFC 2031 IETF-ISOC Relationship IETF-ISOC relationship A summary of proposed boundaries between IETF and ISOC responsibilities RFC 2777 Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection A fair, publicly verifiable way to select committee members at random. RFC 3536 Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF A glossary of terms for discussing internationalization in IETF standards work RFC 5078 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Revision of the Nominating and Recall Committees Timeline A revised calendar for how the IETF picks its leaders. RFC 7990 RFC Format Framework Transitioning RFCs from plain text ASCII to XML for richer publishing. RFC 3 Documentation conventions The original conventions for sharing Network Working Group notes. RFC 675 TCP Original Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program A 1974 design for reliable communication between processes across connected networks. RFC 997 Internet Numbers Internet numbers A status report of Internet network numbers and autonomous system assignments as of March 1987. RFC 8536 TZif The Time Zone Information Format (TZif) Binary file format for representing time zone information and rules. RFC 2434 IANA Considerations Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs How protocol specifications should document the rules for managing IANA registries. RFC 211 ARPA Network Mailing Lists Three mailing lists for distributing RFCs and other network documents RFC 240 Site Status A corrected reissue of BBN's first ARPANET site status report RFC 255 Status of network hosts A snapshot of ARPANET host accessibility from October 12 to 22, 1971 RFC 267 Network Host Status A November 1971 report of host tests and changes in host roles RFC 287 Status of Network Hosts A December 1971 report of ARPANET host tests and excluded hosts RFC 300 ARPA Network mailing lists Three postal mailing lists for distributing ARPANET documents RFC 303 ARPA Network mailing lists Three distribution lists for ARPA Network documents and their recipients. RFC 315 Network Host Status A February 1972 snapshot of ARPANET host status and service predictions RFC 342 Network Host Status A Network Host Status report covering April 24 through May 5, 1972. RFC 343 IMP System change notification A notice explaining why the May 1972 IMP software release failed RFC 344 Network Host Status A report of ARPANET host status from May 8 to May 19, 1972. RFC 353 Network host status A report of ARPANET host status from May 22 to June 2, 1972. RFC 362 Network Host Status A report of ARPANET host status from June 5 through June 16, 1972. RFC 367 Network host status A July 1972 report of which ARPANET hosts answered connection tests. RFC 433 Socket number list A record of service numbers assigned to public functions on the early network. RFC 447 IMP/TIP memory retrofit schedule The revised schedule for adding memory to network IMPs and TIPs. RFC 604 Assigned link numbers The assigned link numbers for traffic on the ARPANET host-to-host protocol RFC 776 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers A January 1981 list of assigned network, protocol, port, and link numbers. RFC 820 Assigned numbers A registry of the numbers needed for Internet protocol implementations. RFC 880 Official protocols A 1983 catalog of the Internet protocols in use, with their status and known issues. RFC 1062 Internet Numbers Internet numbers The official registry of IP network numbers and autonomous system numbers in use on the Internet. RFC 1250 IAB Protocol Standards IAB Official Protocol Standards The authoritative guide to the standardization state and status of Internet protocols. RFC 1410 IAB protocol standards IAB Official Protocol Standards The standardization process and maturity levels for Internet protocols as of 1993. RFC 1610 Internet protocol standards Internet Official Protocol Standards The standardization process and maturity levels for Internet protocols as of 1994. RFC 1800 Official Standards List Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's periodic snapshot of which protocols are official standards. RFC 1880 Official Standards List Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of protocol standardization status in late 1995 RFC 2500 Protocol Standards Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of which Internet protocols were standards, experimental, or historic as of June 1999 RFC 2800 Internet Official Protocol Standards The IETF's snapshot of which protocols were standards in 2001. RFC 3300 Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of Internet protocol standards as of October 2002. RFC 3600 Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of official Internet protocols and standards from 2003 RFC 3700 STD 1 Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of official Internet protocol standards as of July 2004. RFC 5226 IANA Considerations Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs Guidelines for writing the part of an RFC that tells IANA how to manage numbered registries. RFC 8892 Guidelines and Registration Procedures for Interface Types and Tunnel Types The rules for adding new interface types and tunnel types to the IANA registries, now independent of MIB or YANG. RFC 35 Network Meeting An announcement for a 1970 meeting to discuss the network protocol. RFC 96 An Interactive Network Experiment to Study Modes of Access the Network Information Center A plan to compare ways of using the Network Information Center over the network. RFC 699 Request For Comments summary notes: 600-699 An annotated list of RFCs numbered 600 through 699. RFC 1012 Bibliography of Request For Comments 1 through 999 A complete bibliographic guide to nearly a thousand Internet memos from the first two decades. RFC 1099 RFC Summary 1000-1099 Request for Comments Summary: RFC Numbers 1000-1099 A catalog of RFCs 1000 through 1099, summarizing each document's purpose and scope. RFC 1127 Host Reqs Perspective Perspective on the Host Requirements RFCs Behind-the-scenes insights into the development of comprehensive Internet host standards. RFC 1152 High-Speed Workshop Workshop report: Internet research steering group workshop on very-high-speed networks Research insights on protocols, applications, and technologies for gigabit-speed networks RFC 1167 NREN Thoughts Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network A vision for a U.S. national research and education network. RFC 1173 Oral Tradition Responsibilities of host and network managers: A summary of the "oral tradition" of the Internet An informational account of host and network managers' responsibilities. RFC 1181 RIPE Terms of Reference RIPE Terms of Reference The stated purpose and working scope of the RIPE coordinating body. RFC 1192 Commercialization of the Internet summary report A 1990 workshop report on commercializing Internet infrastructure RFC 1197 Using ODA for translating multimedia information Experience using Office Document Architecture to exchange multimedia documents. RFC 1199 Request for Comments Summary Notes: 1100-1199 An annotated guide to 100 RFCs documenting the standards and developments of the early Internet. RFC 1210 Network and infrastructure user requirements for transatlantic research collaboration: Brussels, July 16-18, and Washington July 24-25, 1990 What networking and infrastructure scientists need for research collaboration across the Atlantic. RFC 1259 Building the open road: The NREN as test-bed for the national public network A vision for the NREN as a model for the national digital network RFC 1261 Transition of Nic Services An announcement of the planned transfer of Network Information Center services. RFC 1273 Measurement Study of Changes in Service-Level Reachability in the Global TCP/IP Internet: Goals, Experimental Design, Implementation, and Policy Considerations A longitudinal study tracking which Internet services sites are willing to run. RFC 1291 Mid-Level Networks Potential Technical Services Technical services mid-level networks should offer to strengthen the Internet's hierarchy. RFC 1296 Internet Growth (1981-1991) Measuring how the Internet grew from 213 hosts in 1981 to over 700,000 in 1992 RFC 1299 Summary of 1200-1299 A catalog of 100 RFCs covering the Internet protocols from 1991-1992 RFC 1302 Building a Network Information Services Infrastructure A blueprint for Internet help desks and information centers RFC 1303 A Convention for Describing SNMP-based Agents A macro that lets an SNMP agent publish exactly which MIB groups it supports and how it deviates from them. RFC 1313 Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio A fictional radio schedule filled with Internet engineering references. RFC 1330 Recommendations for the Phase I Deployment of OSI Directory Services (X.500) and OSI Message Handling Services (X.400) within the ESNET Community ESnet's guide to deploying global directory and mail services using OSI standards. RFC 1359 Connecting to the Internet - What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate A 1992 checklist for institutions deciding whether and how to connect their campus to the Internet. RFC 1365 An IP Address Extension Proposal Using IP options to extend addresses without breaking backward compatibility RFC 1373 Portable DUAs How to set up programs that access the X.500 directory RFC 1375 Suggestion for New Classes of IP Addresses Adding smaller IP address sizes to reduce waste RFC 1394 Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet Domains A reference mapping of country telex codes to Internet domains RFC 1399 Summary of 1300-1399 An index of 100 RFCs documenting the Internet standards process and protocols RFC 1400 Transition and Modernization of the Internet Registration Service Moving Internet registration services to a new organization RFC 1438 SOBs Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs) A satirical proposal for an RFC subseries that approves and then discards documents. RFC 1439 The Uniqueness of Unique Identifiers Making sure every person's account name is truly unique. RFC 1499 Summary of 1400-1499 A reference guide to one hundred RFCs spanning networking, standards, and management. RFC 1501 OS/2 User Group A request for feedback on forming a national OS/2 user group. RFC 1527 What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network? A 1993 policy analysis of what the U.S. Congress should decide about the network RFC 1599 Summary of 1500-1599 Annotated summary and index of RFC numbers 1500 through 1599. RFC 1605 SONNET SONET to Sonnet Translation A comic proposal to represent SONET frames as English sonnets. RFC 1606 A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9 A comic future history of an imaginary IP Version 9. RFC 1607 A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY A fictional set of future letters about Internet history and growth. RFC 1669 Market Viability as a IPng Criteria A 1994 analysis of market viability as a criterion for IPng proposals. RFC 1670 Input to IPng Engineering Considerations Personal recommendations for organizing IPng decisions and transition work. RFC 1672 Accounting Requirements for IPng A proposal to carry accounting information in IPng packets. RFC 1673 Electric Power Research Institute Comments on IPng The Electric Power Research Institute's comments on IPng requirements. RFC 1674 A Cellular Industry View of IPng The CDPD consortium's proposed requirements for IPng. RFC 1676 INFN Requirements for an IPng INFN's proposed requirements for an IPng plan and transition. RFC 1678 Corporate IPng Needs IPng Requirements of Large Corporate Networks Business requirements for the next-generation Internet protocol from large enterprises. RFC 1680 IPng Support for ATM Services Making a new Internet protocol work efficiently on fast ATM networks. RFC 1681 On Many Addresses per Host A discussion of reasons a host might need multiple IP addresses. RFC 1682 IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis Engineering analysis of how to add a new Internet protocol to BSD operating systems. RFC 1683 Multiprotocol Interoperability In IPng How to design a network protocol that works alongside others RFC 1687 Corporate view of IPng A Large Corporate User's View of IPng What large corporations need from the next-generation internet protocol RFC 1688 IPng mobility IPng Mobility Considerations Design criteria for mobile hosts in the next-generation internet protocol RFC 1690 IEPG Introducing the Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) The charter and open membership of an Internet service-operator forum. RFC 1699 RFC summary 1600-1699 Summary of 1600-1699 An annotated index of 100 RFCs published between 1994 and 1997, organized by number with abstracts. RFC 1708 NTP PICS NTP PICS PROFORMA - For the Network Time Protocol Version 3 A checklist form for NTP implementations to declare supported features RFC 1709 K-12 networking K-12 Internetworking Guidelines A 1994 planning guide for connecting schools, districts and counties to the Internet with TCP/IP. RFC 1719 A Direction for IPng How to organize the effort to pick the next version of IP RFC 1729 Z39.50 usage Using the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol How libraries' search systems work together over the Internet. RFC 1744 Observations on the Management of the Internet Address Space An early analysis of how IPv4 address allocation policies might shape the Internet when addresses run out. RFC 1746 Ways to Define User Expectations A framework for understanding the fundamentals of user agreements and acceptable use policies on the Internet. RFC 1754 IP over ATM requirements IP over ATM Working Group's Recommendations for the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF Version 1 IETF recommendations for the ATM Forum's work on connecting IP networks with ATM. RFC 1775 To Be "On" the Internet Four terms for different levels of user and provider Internet access. RFC 1776 IPng address joke The Address is the Message A satirical claim that IPng chose addresses with no room for messages. RFC 1799 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1700-1799 A reference guide to Internet standards and protocols from RFCs 1700–1799. RFC 1882 12 Days of Technology The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas A Christmas-carol parody that adds one computer-support problem each day. RFC 1899 RFC Summary 1800-1899 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1800-1899 An index of 100 RFC documents covering the decade's worth of Internet work. RFC 1931 Dynamic RARP Dynamic RARP Extensions for Automatic Network Address Acquisition Extensions to RARP for automatic IP address acquisition during system installation. RFC 1934 Ascend MP+ Ascend's Multilink Protocol Plus (MP+) Adding session management to bundled network links RFC 1935 What is the Internet? What is the Internet, Anyway? Defining the Internet by its interactive services and boundaries RFC 1999 RFC Summary 1900-1999 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1900-1999 A guide to 100 RFCs covering network protocols, services, and technologies. RFC 2057 Source Directed Access Control on the Internet Why content filtering by the sender is technically impractical on the Internet RFC 2099 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2000-2099 An index of the 100 RFCs published in 1996-1997. RFC 2134 Articles of Incorporation of Internet Society The Internet Society's articles of incorporation, published for the IETF community. RFC 2135 Internet Society By-Laws The governance rules of the Internet Society as of June 1996. RFC 2150 Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet A guide to the Internet for artists, writers, and humanities scholars. RFC 2199 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2100-2199 A guide to the 100 RFCs published in the 2100–2199 range. RFC 2299 Request for Comments Summary A snapshot of 100 RFCs from January 1999 with their status and abstracts. RFC 2321 RITA RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent An April 1st joke about a rubber-chicken network troubleshooting tool. RFC 2322 peg-dhcp Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp An April 1st joke protocol that hands out IP numbers using clothes-pegs. RFC 2399 Request for Comments Summary A catalog of 100 standards and protocols from 1998, with notes on each. RFC 2441 Working with Jon, Tribute delivered at UCLA, October 30, 1998 A personal tribute to Jon Postel, the Internet's custodian and visionary editor. RFC 2499 Request for Comments Summary A reference index and summary of 100 RFCs published between 2400 and 2499. RFC 2551 The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III An April 1st parody of a standards process, recast for an imaginary Roman community. RFC 2599 RFC Index 2500-2599 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2500-2599 A reference guide to 100 technical standards and protocols published between 1999 and 2000 RFC 2690 ICANN PSO Proposal A Proposal for an MOU-Based ICANN Protocol Support Organization A proposal for how protocol standards organizations should advise ICANN RFC 2699 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2600-2699 A summary of one hundred RFCs published in a specific time period. RFC 2768 Network Policy and Services: A Report of a Workshop on Middleware Report on middleware requirements and architecture for advanced network applications. RFC 2799 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2700-2799 An index and brief summary of 100 RFCs covering a span of Internet standards. RFC 2899 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2800-2899 An index and summary of 100 RFCs published between RFC 2800 and RFC 2899. RFC 2999 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2900-2999 A reference guide to 100 RFCs from 2900 to 2999 RFC 3002 Overview of 2000 IAB Wireless Internetworking Workshop Internet experts discuss challenges for wireless networks. RFC 3026 Liaison to IETF/ISOC on ENUM A letter from an ITU-T working party on who supplies telephone-number data for DNS-based ENUM. RFC 3043 The Network Solutions Personal Internet Name (PIN): A URN Namespace for People and Organizations The Network Solutions PIN namespace for persistent names of people and organizations. RFC 3091 PIgen Pi Digit Generation Protocol An April 1st joke protocol for requesting digits of pi over a network. RFC 3093 FEP Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) An April 1st satire that wraps TCP/IP packets inside HTTP messages to cross firewalls. RFC 3099 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3000-3099 An index and guide to RFCs published from 3000 through 3099 RFC 3109 Request to Move STD 39 to Historic Status Moves the obsolete BBN Report 1822 host-to-IMP interface from Standard to Historic. RFC 3117 BXXP On the Design of Application Protocols Design principles for building generic application protocols that handle asynchronous message exchange. RFC 3130 DNSSEC Notes Notes from the State-Of-The-Technology: DNSSEC Status update on security extensions for the DNS system. RFC 3166 Request to Move RFC 1403 to Historic Status Requests Historic status for the BGP-OSPF interaction described in RFC 1403. RFC 3167 Request to Move RFC 1745 to Historic Status Requests Historic status for the BGP4/IDRP and OSPF interaction described in RFC 1745. RFC 3199 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3100-3199 A directory of the hundred RFCs published in 2001-2003. RFC 3245 The History and Context of Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) Operational Decisions: Informational Documents Contributed to ITU-T Study Group 2 (SG2) Why ENUM uses one domain, .ARPA, and RIPE NCC RFC 3251 MPLampS Electricity over IP An April 1st joke about carrying electricity over IP with an MPLS control plane. RFC 3254 Definitions for talking about directories A shared vocabulary for describing information access systems RFC 3271 The Internet is for Everyone The Internet Society's call for universal, inclusive access to the global network. RFC 3299 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3200-3299 A catalog and brief summary of all RFCs numbered 3200 through 3299. RFC 3386 Multilayer survivability Network Hierarchy and Multilayer Survivability What service providers need from a network that must keep working after a failure RFC 3387 SMRG QoS considerations Considerations from the Service Management Research Group (SMRG) on Quality of Service (QoS) in the IP Network How IP network management must change when networks provide differentiated service levels RFC 3499 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3400-3499 A summary and index of the one hundred RFCs numbered 3400 through 3499 with brief descriptions of each. RFC 3599 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3500-3599 Annotated summary of RFCs 3500 through 3599, with brief descriptions of each. RFC 3669 WG IPR Guidelines Guidelines for Working Groups on Intellectual Property Issues Case studies and rules of thumb to help IETF working groups decide what to do about patents and other IPR claims. RFC 3675 .sex Considered Dangerous Why a special domain for adult content would not work RFC 3751 Omniscience Protocol Requirements An April 1st satire listing impossible requirements for an Omniscience Protocol. RFC 3844 IETF Problem Resolution IETF Problem Resolution Process How the IETF analyzed and began to fix its organizational problems RFC 3869 IAB Research Concerns IAB Concerns and Recommendations Regarding Internet Research and Evolution A call for sustained, non-commercial funding to evolve the Internet. RFC 3905 Patent Disclosure Form A Template for IETF Patent Disclosures and Licensing Declarations A standard form for disclosing patents that affect IETF standards. RFC 3930 The Protocol versus Document Points of View in Computer Protocols Why protocol design and document design require different approaches. RFC 3937 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) Assigning persistent identifiers to news industry standards and resources. RFC 3975 OMA-IETF Standardization Collaboration Framework for coordination between mobile standards (OMA) and Internet standards (IETF). RFC 4152 CLEI URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Common Language Equipment Identifier (CLEI) Code A Uniform Resource Name namespace for equipment identifiers in telecommunications RFC 4179 NCA UCI URN Using Universal Content Identifier (UCI) as Uniform Resource Names (URN) A permanent naming system for Korea's digital content managed by the National Computerization Agency. RFC 4195 TV-Anytime URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the TV-Anytime Forum A stable naming system for TV specifications and documents. RFC 4198 Federated content URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Federated Content A naming scheme for content in loose networks without a central authority. RFC 4228 Requirements for an IETF Draft Submission Toolset A web-based system to streamline submitting Internet-Drafts for review. RFC 4350 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Formal Namespace for the New Zealand Government A persistent naming standard for New Zealand Government documents and data. RFC 4417 IAB Messaging Workshop Report of the 2004 IAB Messaging Workshop Unified messaging challenges and research directions for email, IM, and voice RFC 4445 Media Delivery Index A Proposed Media Delivery Index (MDI) Measures network jitter and loss for streaming media delivery. RFC 4450 Obsolete RFC cleanup Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents The results of reclassifying obsolete Proposed Standards to Historic status. RFC 4603 NAS-Port-Type values Additional Values for the NAS-Port-Type Attribute Five additional RADIUS NAS-Port-Type values for PPP connection types. RFC 4617 Latvian URN namespace A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Formal Namespace for the Latvian National Government Integration Project A standard way to name and find resources in the Latvian government. RFC 4824 IP over Semaphore Flags The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) An April 1st joke specifying how to transmit IP datagrams by waving semaphore flags. RFC 4840 Multiple Encapsulation Methods Considered Harmful Why link-layer protocols should not support multiple ways to wrap IP packets RFC 4854 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Extensions to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) A permanent naming system for additions to the XMPP messaging protocol RFC 4926 A URN Namespace for GEANT Stable names for resources across European research networks RFC 4965 CableLabs Collaboration CableLabs - IETF Standardization Collaboration How IETF and cable television standards bodies collaborate. RFC 5165 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Permanent, location-independent names for geospatial resources. RFC 5174 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) A standard namespace for naming EBU resources and documents. RFC 5237 IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field Allocation rules for IPv4 Protocol and IPv6 Next Header values without Expert Review. RFC 5241 Naming Rights Naming Rights in IETF Protocols An April 1st satire proposing that companies buy naming rights to protocol fields. RFC 5242 Unified Character Code A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections An April 1st joke proposing one elaborate character code for several scripts. RFC 5279 3GPP URN Namespace A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Permanent names for mobile phone standards documents RFC 5290 Comments on the Usefulness of Simple Best-Effort Traffic Why the Internet's simple, classless approach to traffic is worth keeping RFC 6029 A Survey on Research on the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Problem Surveying research approaches to help peer-to-peer applications choose peers more intelligently using network topology knowledge. RFC 6061 Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) Reserve the URN prefix 'nena' for the emergency services organization to identify resources. RFC 6288 DGIWG URN URN Namespace for the Defence Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) A namespace identifier for defence geospatial resources and specifications. RFC 6289 CableLabs URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for CableLabs A namespace for identifying cable industry specifications and resources. RFC 6293 Requirements for Internet-Draft Tracking by the IETF Community in the Datatracker Specifications for letting community members track Internet-Drafts and RFCs through their publishing lifecycle. RFC 6301 A Survey of Mobility Support in the Internet Two decades of solutions for keeping mobile devices connected RFC 6328 NLPID IANA Considerations for Network Layer Protocol Identifiers How IANA hands out the one-byte network layer protocol identifiers that ISO/IEC defined and some IETF protocols use. RFC 6338 SCHAC URN Definition of a Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Schema for Academia (SCHAC) A persistent namespace for educational institution vocabulary values RFC 6417 How to Contribute Research Results to Internet Standardization A guide for academic researchers bringing ideas to internet standards RFC 6453 OGF URN namespace A URN Namespace for the Open Grid Forum (OGF) Persistent identifiers for grid computing resources and standards RFC 6497 BCP 47 Extension T BCP 47 Extension T - Transformed Content Language tag extension for specifying the source of transformed content. RFC 6556 Eyeballs Testing Testing Eyeball Happiness How to measure whether apps connect quickly in dual-stack networks. RFC 6588 URN Namespace for ucode A URN Namespace for ucode A name format for identifying real-world objects with tags. RFC 6592 The Null Packet An April 1st joke that defines a packet containing nothing at all. RFC 6640 IETF Meeting Attendees' Frequently Asked (Travel) Questions A guidebook for meeting hosts to help travelers find local information RFC 6730 NomCom tool requirements Requirements for IETF Nominations Committee Tools Tools to help the committee that picks IETF leaders work smoothly and securely. RFC 6821 Improving Peer Selection in Peer-to-peer Applications: Myths vs. Reality Testing claims about making peer-to-peer networks faster by preferring local peers. RFC 6852 OpenStand Affirmation of the Modern Paradigm for Standards A signed affirmation of principles for open, global standards development. RFC 6875 The P2P Network Experiment Council's Activities and Experiments with Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) in Japan How Japan tested ALTO-like peer selection to reduce P2P traffic RFC 6893 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) A naming system for the Open IPTV Forum specifications. RFC 6921 FTL Communication Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication An April 1st thought experiment about Internet protocols if packets arrived before they were sent. RFC 7101 List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by a Web Page Why RFC numbers ending in 00 are no longer reserved for standards lists. RFC 7207 Eurosystem URN Namespace A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Eurosystem Messaging A registered namespace for identifying Eurosystem financial messaging resources RFC 7221 Handling of Internet-Drafts by IETF Working Groups How working groups develop and adopt documents through consensus RFC 7255 Using the International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI) Uniform Resource Name (URN) as an Instance ID Using a phone's serial number as its unique identifier in SIP RFC 7270 Cisco-Specific Information Elements Reused in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Standard names for flow export fields from Cisco networking equipment. RFC 7452 Architectural Considerations in Smart Object Networking How to design Internet-connected embedded devices that actually work RFC 7467 URN Namespace for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) NATO registers the formal URN namespace identifier "nato" so its XML message specifications get stable, unique names. RFC 7491 PCE ABNO A PCE-Based Architecture for Application-Based Network Operations Architecture for applications to request on-demand network resources and services RFC 7528 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) Association Reserved naming space for the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV standard. RFC 7620 Scenarios with Host Identification Complications When networks can't tell which host is which behind a shared address RFC 7663 SEMI Workshop Report Report from the IAB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI) How middleboxes block new transport protocols and what to do about it RFC 7703 MAP-T Testing Experience with Testing of Mapping of Address and Port Using Translation (MAP-T) What happens when many users share one IPv4 address through double translation RFC 7704 An IETF with Much Diversity and Professional Conduct Building a more welcoming and respectful standards community RFC 7735 Tracking Reviews of Documents Integration requirements for IETF review team tools and the Datatracker. RFC 7738 URN Namespace for CCSDS A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) Permanent names for space data system standards and documents. RFC 7760 Statement of Work for Extensions to the IETF Datatracker for Author Statistics Tracking who writes IETF standards and where they work RFC 7803 Changing the Registration Policy for the NETCONF Capability URNs Registry A Best Current Practice changes how NETCONF capability URNs are reviewed. RFC 7818 URN Namespace for MEF URN Namespace for MEF Documents The MEF Forum's registered namespace identifier for persistent resource names. RFC 7827 The Role of the IRTF Chair Job description and expectations for the IRTF chair RFC 7842 Requirements for Improvements to the IETF Email List Archiving, Web-Based Browsing, and Search Tool Making the IETF email archive search tool faster and easier to use. RFC 7853 A URN Namespace for Globus A namespace for Globus to give persistent names to its resources. RFC 8023 Report from the Workshop and Prize on Root Causes and Mitigation of Name Collisions Workshop findings on domain name collisions when new TLDs clash with private networks. RFC 8057 Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespaces for Broadband Forum Unique naming identifiers for Broadband Forum specifications and resources RFC 8069 URN Namespace for IEEE Namespace identifier ieee for URNs identifying IEEE resources RFC 8107 Ad-ID URN Advertising Digital Identifier (Ad-ID) URN Namespace Definition A global naming system for advertising assets across all media platforms. RFC 8140 Arte of ASCII The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character An April 1st collection of ASCII pictures, described in mock-archaic prose. RFC 8369 IPv6 Unicode Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode An April 1st joke imagines using 128-bit Unicode code points as IPv6 addresses. RFC 8423 Suite B historic Reclassification of Suite B Documents to Historic Status Archive of superseded NSA Suite B cryptographic standards RFC 8477 IOTSI Workshop Report from the Internet of Things (IoT) Semantic Interoperability (IOTSI) Workshop 2016 Bridging the language gap between smart devices from different vendors. RFC 8515 URN ETSI URN Namespace for ETSI Documents A permanent naming scheme for ETSI standards documents. RFC 8568 Network Virtualization Research Challenges Open problems in network virtualization for research and standards RFC 8597 CLAS for SDN Cooperating Layered Architecture for Software-Defined Networking (CLAS) Split network control into separate layers for services and transport. RFC 8716 Anti-harassment update Update to the IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures for the Replacement of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) with the IETF Administration LLC Updating IETF harassment procedures to reflect changes in governance structure. RFC 8763 ICN deployment Deployment Considerations for Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Roadmap and configurations for deploying Information-Centric Networking as internet infrastructure evolves. RFC 8772 BNG S-CUSP The China Mobile, Huawei, and ZTE Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) Simple Control and User Plane Separation Protocol (S-CUSP) Protocol for splitting BNG control and forwarding functions into separate planes. RFC 8774 The Quantum Bug The Quantum Bug An April 1st RFC imagines protocol failures when round-trip time reaches zero. RFC 8802 Q4S The Quality for Service (Q4S) Protocol Application-level protocol for monitoring end-to-end quality of service RFC 8822 5WE 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence User Plane Encapsulation (5WE) Encapsulation for 5G residential gateway traffic over wireline networks. RFC 8884 Research Directions for Using Information-Centric Networking (ICN) in Disaster Scenarios How information-centric networking can help people communicate after large-scale disasters when normal networks break. RFC 8953 CARIS2 Report Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale 2 (CARIS2) Workshop Report Report from a 2019 workshop on coordinating Internet-scale incident response. RFC 8962 Protocol Police Establishing the Protocol Police An April 1st satire pretends to establish a body that enforces protocol behavior. RFC 8963 Evaluation of a Sample of RFCs Produced in 2018 A study of how long Internet standards take to publish. RFC 8975 Network Coding Satellite Network Coding for Satellite Systems Using clever data mixing to recover from satellite link losses RFC 8980 Report from the IAB Workshop on Design Expectations vs. Deployment Reality in Protocol Development How Internet protocols often deploy in unexpected, centralized ways RFC 9049 Path Aware Networking Path Aware Networking: Obstacles to Deployment (A Bestiary of Roads Not Taken) Why decades of attempts to let apps choose network paths have mostly failed RFC 9075 IAB COVID-19 Workshop Report from the IAB COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop 2020 How the pandemic changed Internet traffic and what it revealed about networks RFC 9225 Software Defects Considered Harmful An April 1st RFC states the obvious: software defects cause harm. RFC 9236 Architectural Considerations of Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Using a Name Resolution Service Mapping content names to their locations in a next-generation Internet. RFC 9307 AID Workshop Report Report from the IAB Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID) 2021 How researchers are studying the IETF through its own data RFC 9316 Intent Classification Intent Classification How to categorize and understand different types of network intent RFC 9318 Network Quality Report IAB Workshop Report: Measuring Network Quality for End-Users What makes a good Internet connection beyond just speed. RFC 9400 Guidelines for the Organization of Fully Online Meetings How to organize large engineering meetings entirely online: timing, duration, and structure. RFC 9402 Concat Notation An April 1st notation describes cats, containers, and their positions in text. RFC 9405 AI Sarcasm Detection: Insult Your AI without Offending It An April 1st framework proposes training AI systems to identify sarcasm. RFC 9419 Considerations on Application - Network Collaboration Using Path Signals Design principles for explicit communication between apps and network elements RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations Four perspectives on ten years since the NSA surveillance revelations RFC 9473 Path properties A Vocabulary of Path Properties A shared vocabulary for describing network paths and their characteristics RFC 9517 DDI URN namespace A URN Namespace for the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) A persistent naming scheme for research data documents. RFC 9547 Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022 What the Internet Architecture Board learned about designing networks for environmental sustainability. RFC 9556 Internet of Things (IoT) Edge Challenges and Functions Why computing at the edge solves IoT problems that the cloud cannot RFC 9564 FLIP Faster Than Light Speed Protocol (FLIP) An April 1st proposal claims AI can predict packets before they arrive. RFC 9583 Application Scenarios for the Quantum Internet Vision for quantum network applications including cryptography, sensing and computing RFC 9614 Privacy partitioning Partitioning as an Architecture for Privacy Spreading data across parties to protect identity while preserving function. RFC 9676 LEX URN Namespace LEX: A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Sources of Law A standard way to name legal documents so they can be found anywhere. RFC 9680 IETF Antitrust Policy Antitrust Guidelines for IETF Participants Guidelines for competing companies collaborating safely at the IETF. RFC 9707 IAB BIAS Workshop Report from the IAB Workshop on Barriers to Internet Access of Services (BIAS) Reports on barriers to internet access including community networks, digital divide, and censorship. RFC 9759 Two-Week Principle Unified Time Scaling for Temporal Coordination Frameworks An April 1st joke maps every time estimate to two weeks. RFC 9775 IRTF code of conduct IRTF Code of Conduct How to treat people fairly in an Internet research organization RFC 9817 COIN use cases Use Cases for In-Network Computing Applications and opportunities for computing deployed directly in network devices like switches and NICs. RFC 9948 IPP punishments Internet Protocol Police (IPP) - Schedule of Punishments An April 1st schedule of punishments from the imaginary Internet Protocol Police. RFC 9968 IAB NEMOPS report Report from the IAB Workshop on the Next Era of Network Management Operations (NEMOPS) Following up on network management operator requirements two decades later. RFC 9969 IAB AI-CONTROL report Report from the IAB Workshop on AI-CONTROL Standardizing how website owners communicate preferences about AI training and use. RFC 9998 IAB/W3C age report Report from the IAB/W3C Workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access What experts learned about protecting children online through technical design. RFC 4071 IASA Structure Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) How the IETF's administrative and financial operations are organized and overseen. RFC 61 Note on Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network A 1970 proposal for matching messages between local and remote processes. RFC 95 Distribution of NWG/RFC's through the NIC A 1971 note routes network working group documents through designated site contacts. RFC 132 Typographical Error in RFC 107 Corrects a range at the end of RFC 107's flow-control section. RFC 198 Site Certification - Lincoln Labs 360/67 A short report says Lincoln Laboratory's 360/67 network software passed its checks. RFC 207 September Network Working Group meeting An August 1971 announcement outlines a three-phase NWG meeting at MIT. RFC 235 Site status A BBN report combines operator information with daily host login tests. RFC 237 NIC view of standard host names The NIC's 1971 recommendations for a standard form of network host name. RFC 326 Network Host Status A March 1972 report records host status and daily connection tests. RFC 332 Network Host Status An April 1972 host report records two new network connections and test results. RFC 399 SMFS SMFS Login and Logout Two Simple-Minded File System commands for user identification and accounting RFC 825 Request for comments on Requests For Comments A guide to identifying an RFC's purpose and formatting it for distribution. RFC 1849 Son of 1036 "Son of 1036": News Article Format and Transmission The format and procedures for network news articles, a de facto standard before official adoption. RFC 3044 Using The ISSN (International Serial Standard Number) as URN (Uniform Resource Names) within an ISSN-URN Namespace How the number printed on magazines and journals can double as a permanent Uniform Resource Name. RFC 1120 IAB History Internet Activities Board The coordinating body for internet design, engineering, and management in 1989. RFC 1177 FYI Q and A FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "new internet user" questions Answers to the most commonly asked questions by new Internet users. RFC 1367 Schedule for IP Address Space Management Guidelines A proposed timeline for putting an IP address allocation plan into practice. RFC 1391 Tao of the IETF The Tao of the IETF: A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force A friendly 1993 field guide to how the IETF works and how to survive your first meeting. RFC 1739 A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools A beginner's guide to TCP/IP utilities and Internet tools RFC 2436 Collaboration between ISOC/IETF and ITU-T The framework for joint standards work between the Internet Engineering Task Force and the International Telecommunication Union. RFC 3001 A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers A URN format for expressing Object Identifiers as URIs. RFC 3285 Using Microsoft Word to create Internet Drafts and RFCs How to set up Microsoft Word to produce RFC-compliant documents RFC 4441 IEEE 802 and IETF The IEEE 802/IETF Relationship How IEEE 802 and IETF coordinate on standards for network hardware and protocols. RFC 5744 Independent Stream Rights Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC Independent Submission Stream The copyright rules for Independent Submission RFCs: what authors grant, and what readers may do with the text. RFC 6255 DTN IANA registries Delay-Tolerant Networking Bundle Protocol IANA Registries How the Delay-Tolerant Networking research group handed its Bundle Protocol number lists to IANA. RFC 5797 FTP Command Registry FTP Command and Extension Registry An IANA registry that keeps FTP command names and extension names from colliding. RFC 6075 The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) Vendor Subtrees Registry A registry for company-specific namespace extensions in Internet protocols RFC 7280 IANA Guidance for Managing the Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) Next-Header Registry Clearer rules for who can add entries to the ULE Next-Header registry, now shared by ULE and GSE. RFC 252 Network host status An ARPANET host status report covering September 30 to October 8, 1971 RFC 266 Network host status A BBN table of ARPANET host test results from October 26 to November 5, 1971 RFC 298 Network host status A report on ARPANET host status from January 17 to January 28, 1972. RFC 306 Network host status A report of ARPANET host status from January 31 to February 11, 1972. RFC 366 Network Host Status A report of ARPANET host status from June 19 to June 30, 1972. RFC 762 Assigned numbers The January 1980 list of assigned numbers used by network protocols. RFC 770 Assigned numbers A 1980 edition of the assigned-number lists for network protocols RFC 901 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols Status report of the protocols used in the ARPA-Internet with specifications and implementation notes RFC 1130 IAB Standards List IAB official protocol standards The October 1989 status report on which Internet protocols were at which stage of standardization. RFC 1200 IAB Protocol Standards IAB official protocol standards The official status and standardization track of Internet protocols as determined by the Internet Activities Board. RFC 1720 Official Standards list Internet Official Protocol Standards Status report on Internet protocol standardization as of November 1994 RFC 2498 IPPM Connectivity IPPM Metrics for Measuring Connectivity Standard definitions for measuring whether packets can travel between two hosts RFC 6982 Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section Documenting implementations to improve protocol standards RFC 8989 NomCom Eligibility Additional Criteria for Nominating Committee Eligibility Temporary expanded paths for volunteers to lead IETF governance RFC 6082 Deprecating Unicode Language Tag Characters: RFC 2482 is Historic Moves the Unicode language tag character facility in RFC 2482 to Historic status. RFC 8720 IANA registry principles Principles for Operation of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Registries Principles for keeping the authoritative registries of internet protocol numbers fair and trustworthy. RFC 8722 Registry operators Defining the Role and Function of IETF Protocol Parameter Registry Operators Who manages the shared number lists that keep protocols compatible. RFC 160 RFC brief list A May 1971 index lists early RFC titles alongside NIC catalog numbers. RFC 170 RFC List by Number A 1971 RFC index adds authors, dates, titles, and NIC numbers to the list. RFC 229 Standard host names A proposal for eight-character names for hosts on the ARPA Network. RFC 289 What we hope is an official list of host names A proposed list of formal host names, nicknames, and network addresses. RFC 293 Network Host Status A report of ARPANET host status from January 3 to January 15, 1972. RFC 331 IMP System Change Notification A planned BBN software change for the ARPANET's IMPs. RFC 349 Proposed Standard Socket Numbers A proposal for assigning ARPANET socket numbers to standard services. RFC 378 Traffic statistics (July 1972) BBN's monthly summary of ARPANET host packet output for July 1972. RFC 389 UCLA Campus Computing Network Liaison Staff for ARPA Network A directory of UCLA CCN contacts for ARPA Network users. RFC 434 IMP/TIP memory retrofit schedule A preliminary schedule for adding core memory to IMPs and TIPs. RFC 766 Internet Protocol Handbook: Table of contents A draft table of contents for a handbook of Internet protocol documents. RFC 945 DoD statement on the NRC report A Defense Department letter about recommendations on transport protocols. RFC 4693 IETF Operational Notes IETF Operational Notes A proposal for a middle tier of documents to hold IETF operational procedures. RFC 7319 CFM IANA IANA Considerations for Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Code Points IANA registration rules for the CFM OpCode and TLV type blocks. RFC 8715 Trustee rationale IETF Administrative Support Activity 2.0: Update to the Process for Selection of Trustees for the IETF Trust Why the IETF changed how it selects trustees for the IETF Trust. RFC 9371 PEN Registration Registration Procedures for Private Enterprise Numbers (PENs) How to get and manage a Private Enterprise Number for your organization. RFC 4020 Early IANA Allocation Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points When IANA hands out protocol code points before a standard is final RFC 5342 IEEE 802 Parameters IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters How IANA hands out Ethernet addresses and protocol numbers from the IETF's own block of IEEE space. RFC 4879 Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC 3979 A one-word clarification to the third-party IPR disclosure process. RFC 1986 ETFTP Experiments with a Simple File Transfer Protocol for Radio Links using Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ETFTP) File transfer optimized for slow, unreliable radio networks RFC 5111 Exploratory Groups Experiment in Exploratory Group Formation within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Early-stage work groups to test prerequisites for formal IETF team formation. RFC 5984 Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding: ESPBasedForwarding An April 1st proposal for reaching infinite bandwidth using psychic forwarding RFC 6217 Atmospheric link layer Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer An April 1st joke proposing skywriting to broadcast network messages. RFC 6258 DTN metadata block Delay-Tolerant Networking Metadata Extension Block Extra information blocks that help DTN nodes make routing and storage decisions. RFC 6259 DTN previous-hop block Delay-Tolerant Networking Previous-Hop Insertion Block A one-hop block that tells the next node who just forwarded the bundle. RFC 8771 I-DUNNO The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO) An April 1st joke proposing deliberately unreadable Unicode IP notation. RFC 9226 Bioctal Bioctal: Hexadecimal 2.0 An April 1st joke proposing Bioctal as an alternative to hexadecimal. RFC 228 Clarification A one-line correction to a FORTRAN program in RFC 70. RFC 2050 IP Allocation Guidelines Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines The 1996 rulebook for how address registries handed out IPv4 space, now replaced. RFC 4333 IAOC Selection The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) Member Selection Guidelines and Process How the IETF picks members of its administrative oversight committee. RFC 6220 Defining the Role and Function of IETF Protocol Parameter Registry Operators How IETF entrusts the management of shared code point registries. RFC 7691 Updating the Term Dates of IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) Members Updates the timing rules for IAOC member terms and chair selection. RFC 2278 IANA Charset Registration Procedures The process for registering character encodings with IANA. RFC 1346 Resource Allocation, Control, and Accounting for the Use of Network Resources Challenges in allocating and controlling shared network resources. RFC 2468 I REMEMBER IANA Vint Cerf's remembrance of Jon Postel and his work for the Internet community. RFC 2901 Guide to Administrative Procedures of the Internet Infrastructure A practical checklist for networks joining the Internet RFC 4089 IETF Admin Restructure IAB and IESG Recommendation for IETF Administrative Restructuring How the IETF chose to reorganize its business operations. RFC 5513 Three Letter Acronyms IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms An April 1st joke about a registry for three-letter acronyms. RFC 5745 IAB Stream Rights Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC IAB Stream What authors give, and what readers may do, with the text of RFCs published through the IAB stream. RFC 6359 Datatracker Extensions to Include IANA and RFC Editor Processing Information Requirements for showing IANA and RFC Editor progress in the IETF Datatracker, from first draft to published RFC. RFC 7036 Object Identifier Registry for the Long-Term Archive and Notary Services (LTANS) Working Group A bookkeeping record of the object identifiers the LTANS working group handed out, and the rules for adding more. RFC 7979 IANA Transition Response Response to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) Request for Proposals on the IANA Protocol Parameters Registries The IETF's formal answer on how the IANA protocol parameters registries should be run once the US government steps back. RFC 8090 CCG Appointments Appointment Procedures for the IETF Representatives to the Community Coordination Group (CCG) How the IAB picks, removes and reports on the IETF's three seats on the group that advises on IANA trademarks and domain names. RFC 8101 IANA Registration of New Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Resource-Priority Namespace for Mission Critical Push To Talk Service Two new SIP priority namespaces, mcpttp and mcpttq, registered so Mission Critical Push To Talk calls can be prioritized. RFC 8128 IETF Appointment Procedures for the ICANN Root Zone Evolution Review Committee How the IAB selects the IETF's member of ICANN's RZERC. RFC 8726 Independent IANA How Requests for IANA Action Will Be Handled on the Independent Stream Rules for IANA registries in documents outside the main IETF track. RFC 7302 Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) URN Namespace Definition A standard naming scheme for unique identifiers of movies and TV shows. RFC 7500 Principles for Operation of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Registries Seven principles for running the global registries that Internet protocols depend on. RFC 4 Network timetable A task schedule for preparing SRI to connect to the ARPANET. RFC 6 Conversation with Bob Kahn A note recording a conversation about character conversion and Host-IMP communication. RFC 7 Host-IMP interface A 1969 sketch of the two programs that move a host computer's messages to and from its IMP. RFC 8 ARPA Network Functional Specifications A May 1969 working document titled ARPA Network Functional Specifications. RFC 9 Host Software The host-to-host dialogue of the early ARPANET: logical links, a link-opening exchange, service calls and tables. RFC 12 IMP-Host interface flow diagrams Flow diagrams of the hardware sequence for messages between an IMP and a host. RFC 13 Zero Text Length EOF Message A proposal to use a zero-text-length message to mark the end of a file. RFC 17 Some questions re: Host-IMP Protocol Questions and responses about the early Host-IMP protocol. RFC 18 IMP-IMP and HOST-HOST Control Links A brief proposal assigning separate links to two kinds of control traffic. RFC 21 Network meeting Notes on topics discussed at an October 1969 ARPANET meeting. RFC 25 No High Link Numbers A proposal to keep link numbers at or below 63. RFC 29 Response to RFC 28 A response explaining the IMP's hardware and software clocks. RFC 32 Some Thoughts on SRI's Proposed Real Time Clock Thoughts on using host clocks to measure network message delays. RFC 34 Some Brief Preliminary Notes on the Augmentation Research Center Clock How the ARC clock stored absolute time and elapsed-time counts. RFC 37 Network Meeting Epilogue, etc Notes from an early network protocol design meeting in 1970. RFC 41 IMP-IMP Teletype Communication A request to add time and time-zone information to some IMP teletype messages. RFC 43 Proposed Meeting An announcement of a working meeting about LIL and the TSP system. RFC 45 New Protocol is Coming An announcement that a clean version of the Network protocol was being prepared. RFC 48 Possible protocol plateau A 1970 discussion of design choices for the Network Control Program. RFC 49 Conversations with S. Crocker (UCLA) A record of discussions about NCP and user login protocol choices. RFC 50 Comments on the Meyer Proposal RAND's comments on the Meyer proposal and related protocol choices. RFC 56 Logger Protocol Third Level Protocol: Logger Protocol A proposed way to connect a user's teletype to a foreign host monitor. RFC 64 Getting rid of marking A proposed Host-IMP interface change to avoid marking bits. RFC 72 Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol A proposal to pause most protocol changes while implementation proceeds. RFC 73 Response to NWG/RFC 67 A response recommending implementation before nonessential protocol changes. RFC 75 Network Meeting An announcement of a Network Working Group meeting during the FJCC. RFC 77 Network meeting report Jon Postel's report on Network Working Group meetings in Houston. RFC 79 Logger Protocol error A note identifying a conflict between the logger proposal and the NCP protocol. RFC 81 Request for Reference Information A request for references on data communications and communications theory. RFC 82 Network Meeting Notes A record of discussions at three Network Working Group meetings in Houston. RFC 84 List of NWG/RFC's 1-80 An index listing Network Working Group RFCs numbered 1 through 80. RFC 85 Network Working Group meeting An announcement of a recurring Network Working Group meeting schedule. RFC 89 Some historic moments in networking Reports of remote terminal and graphics experiments between MIT, Multics and Harvard. RFC 90 CCN as a Network Service Center A description of UCLA's planned computing services for ARPANET hosts. RFC 118 Recommendations for facility documentation Recommendations for documenting services available to network users. RFC 136 Host accounting and administrative procedures A working paper listing questions about network and host accounting. RFC 152 SRI Artificial Intelligence status report SRI's AI group describes its planned ARPANET connection and research services. RFC 153 SRI ARC-NIC status SRI reports on its system conversion, network service plans and NIC operations. RFC 156 Status of the Illinois site: Response to RFC 116 An April 1971 update on the Illinois site's network connection work. RFC 157 Invitation to the Second Symposium on Problems in the Optimization of Data Communications Systems A call for papers on data communication systems and network software. RFC 164 Minutes of Network Working Group meeting, 5/16 through 5/19/71 Notes from a 1971 Network Working Group meeting, recorded for attendees' reference. RFC 169 COMPUTER NETWORKS An invitation to a small IEEE workshop on computer networks. RFC 182 Compilation of list of relevant site reports The Network Information Center asks sites to identify useful reports. RFC 185 NIC distribution of manuals and handbooks The Network Information Center requests manuals for network-wide distribution. RFC 188 Data management meeting announcement An announcement and agenda for the first Network Data Management meeting. RFC 208 Address tables A prospective directory of ARPANET host and IMP addresses. RFC 215 NCP, ICP, and Telnet: The Terminal IMP implementation How a Terminal IMP implemented NCP, ICP and TELNET under tight resource limits. RFC 223 Network Information Center schedule for network users The Network Information Center publishes its service hours and login instructions. RFC 230 Toward reliable operation of minicomputer-based terminals on a TIP Why automated or remote terminals need error control beyond character-by-character transmission. RFC 232 Postponement of network graphics meeting The Network Graphics meeting is postponed because of a scheduling conflict. RFC 233 Standardization of host call letters A proposal for short host call letters in Telnet programs. RFC 239 Host mnemonics proposed in RFC 226 (NIC 7625) UCLA-CCN's critique of the host mnemonic proposal in RFC 226. RFC 245 Reservations for Network Group meeting Hotel reservation details for Network Working Group meeting attendees. RFC 246 Network Graphics meeting An announcement of the next Network Graphics meeting. RFC 249 Coordination of equipment and supplies purchase A feasibility study of coordinated equipment and supply purchases. RFC 253 Second Network Graphics meeting details Travel, lodging and registration details for the second Network Graphics meeting. RFC 268 Graphics Facilities Graphics facilities information A request for site information about network graphics equipment. RFC 274 MITRE Network Guide Establishing a local guide for network usage A plan for a practical, locally tailored guide to network resources. RFC 276 NIC Course NIC course A two-day course on the NIC online system and NLS Journal. RFC 280 A Draft of Host Names A draft list of formal host names, nicknames and ARPANET addresses. RFC 286 Network Library System Network Library Information System A request to explore sharing library retrieval systems across the network. RFC 295 Report of the Protocol Workshop, 12 October 1971 Decisions and open questions from the October 1971 protocol workshop. RFC 296 DS-1 Display System A proposed terminal with a memory display and its own processor RFC 305 Unknown Host Numbers Why temporary IMP tests can produce unfamiliar host numbers RFC 313 Computer based instruction How a general computer network might support instruction RFC 314 Network Graphics Working Group Meeting Meeting details for the Network Graphics Working Group RFC 320 Workshop on Hard Copy Line Graphics An announcement and program for a hard-copy graphics workshop RFC 321 CBI Networking Activity at MITRE MITRE's report on using network resources for instruction RFC 324 RJE Protocol meeting A notice for a meeting about Remote Job Entry protocols RFC 327 Data and File Transfer workshop notes Workshop decisions on data and file transfer RFC 334 Network Use on May 8 A warning about heavy-traffic network experiments RFC 335 New Interface - IMP/360 A replacement network interface for the UCSB 360-75 RFC 336 Level 0 Graphic Input Protocol A simple message format for graphics input RFC 339 MLTNET MLTNET: A "Multi Telnet" Subsystem for Tenex One TENEX console for controlling jobs on several hosts RFC 340 Proposed Telnet Changes Why Telnet should keep data types and input hiding RFC 345 Interest in Mixed Integer Programming (MPSX on NIC 360/91 at CCN) Seeking shared interest in an MPSX programming package RFC 350 User Accounts for UCSB On-Line System New login details for users of the UCSB On-line System RFC 351 Graphics information form for the ARPANET graphics resources notebook A questionnaire for the ARPANET graphics resources notebook RFC 352 TIP Survey TIP Site Information Form A form for documenting TIP sites and their access details RFC 355 Response to NWG/RFC 346 A response on handling interactive sessions over long-delay satellite links. RFC 356 NCC Update ARPA Network Control Center Round-the-clock Network Control Center coverage and contact details RFC 361 Echo and Discard Deamon Processes on Host 106 MIT-DMCG announces two network test processes RFC 368 RJE Feedback Comments on "Proposed Remote Job Entry Protocol" Suggestions for improving a proposed Remote Job Entry protocol RFC 371 ICCC Demo Demonstration at International Computer Communications Conference A plan for hands-on network demonstrations at the October 1972 ICCC. RFC 372 ICCC Logistics Notes on a Conversation with Bob Kahn on the ICCC Planning notes for the ARPANET demonstration at the ICCC RFC 374 IMP System Announcement A release update on IMP software and site power problems RFC 379 Using TSO at CCN Instructions for accessing UCLA CCN's IBM Time Sharing Option over the network. RFC 382 Mathematical Software on the ARPA Network Sharing mathematical software libraries through the network RFC 386 Letter to TIP users-2 Updates and troubleshooting advice for TIP users RFC 390 TSO Scenario A worked example of editing, compiling and running a Fortran program RFC 393 Comments on Telnet Protocol Changes Comments on Telnet input hiding, data types and Reverse Break RFC 395 Switch Settings on IMPs and TIPs A checklist of front-panel switch settings for IMPs and TIPs RFC 403 Desirability of a Network 1108 Service A request for feedback on a possible Utah Univac 1108 service RFC 408 NETBANK NETBANK A proposed single system for network accounts and billing RFC 409 SMFS Tenex interface to UCSB's Simple-Minded File System A TENEX interface to UCSB's remote file storage RFC 411 New MULTICS Network Software Features Two Multics network software changes for terminals and transfers RFC 412 User FTP Documentation The Utah-10 FTP user's help file and command reference RFC 416 ARC System Will Be Unavailable for Use During Thanksgiving Week Planned Thanksgiving maintenance for the ARC system RFC 417 Link usage violation A warning about TENEX link numbers outside the protocol range RFC 419 To: Network liaisons and station agents A notice about a holiday shutdown at MIT Project MAC RFC 420 CCA ICCC weather demo A networked program for asking questions about weather data RFC 421 Software Consulting Service for Network Users An experimental software consulting service for network users RFC 425 "But my NCP costs $500 a day" A shared host-status service to reduce repeated network surveys RFC 432 Network logical map A request to review the ARPANET logical map RFC 437 Data Reconfiguration Service at UCSB How UCSB's Data Reconfiguration Service changed data between network processes. RFC 439 PARRY encounters the DOCTOR A recorded exchange between PARRY and DOCTOR, shared for entertainment. RFC 441 Inter-Entity Communication - an experiment A status report on an experiment in communication across network hosts. RFC 443 Traffic statistics (December 1972) BBN's table of ARPANET host traffic for December 1972. RFC 445 IMP/TIP preventive maintenance schedule A monthly schedule for preventive maintenance on IMPs and TIPs. RFC 446 Proposal to consider a network program resource notebook A proposal for the NIC to collect information about network programs. RFC 450 MULTICS sampling timeout change A change to the anonymous Multics session time limit. RFC 452 Telnet TELNET Command at Host LL How Host LL's CP/CMS TELNET command supported remote terminals. RFC 457 TIPUG A request to add TIP users to the guide and notes distribution list. RFC 461 Telnet Telnet Protocol meeting announcement A call for a working meeting to discuss an official TELNET protocol. RFC 463 FTP FTP comments and response to RFC 430 Abhay Bhushan's response to comments on the evolving FTP specification. RFC 466 Telnet Telnet logger/server for host LL-67 How the Lincoln Laboratory CP/CMS TELNET logger and server worked. RFC 470 Change in socket for TIP news facility A notice that the TIP News facility moved to a new socket. RFC 471 Workshop on multi-site executive programs A tentative workshop on command programs for accessing resources across hosts. RFC 472 Illinois' reply to Maxwell's request for graphics information (NIC 14925) Illinois reports on graphics work and plans in response to a network survey. RFC 477 Remote Job Service at UCSB How UCSB's Remote Job Service accepted, tracked and returned batch jobs. RFC 478 FTP FTP server-server interaction - II A proposal for FTP servers to establish a direct data connection. RFC 479 FTP Use of FTP by the NIC Journal SRI-ARC's proposed FTP commands for submitting and delivering NIC Journal mail. RFC 480 FTP Host-dependent FTP parameters A pathname convention for passing host-specific information to an FTP server. RFC 483 Cancellation of the resource notebook framework meeting Cancellation of the Resource Notebook Framework meeting. RFC 486 FTP Data transfer revisited A proposal to combine shared parts of FTP and Remote Job Entry. RFC 488 NLS classes at network sites SRI-ARC asks whether network sites want on-site NLS classes. RFC 489 Comment on resynchronization of connection status proposal Jon Postel's naming change for a connection-allocation recovery procedure. RFC 490 Surrogate RJS for UCLA-CCN How UCSB users could submit jobs to UCLA-CCN through UCSB's RJS. RFC 496 TNLS quick reference card is available An announcement of a quick reference card for TNLS users. RFC 499 Harvard's network RJE A guide to Harvard's remote job entry program for UCLA's RJS. RFC 500 Integration of data management systems on a computer network A common-language approach to sharing data across management systems. RFC 504 Distributed resources workshop announcement An announcement for a workshop on automating ARPANET resource sharing. RFC 506 FTP FTP command naming problem A proposal to add clearer synonyms for FTP's STOR and RETR commands. RFC 508 Real-time data transmission on the ARPANET UCSB's experiment measuring gaps in simulated real-time network data. RFC 511 Enterprise phone service to NIC from ARPANET sites A current list of phone arrangements for calling the Network Information Center. RFC 515 Specifications for Datalanguage, Version 0/9 The syntax and operations of the Datacomputer's Datalanguage version 0/9. RFC 518 ARPANET accounts A directory of account information for ARPANET computer sites. RFC 521 Restricted use of IMP DDT A plan to restrict access to the IMP debugging facility. RFC 526 Technical meeting: Digital image processing software systems An announcement and agenda for a digital image processing meeting at USC. RFC 527 ARPAWOCKY A poem that recasts ARPANET terms in a nonsense-verse style. RFC 528 Software checksumming in the IMP and network reliability How IMP software checksums were used to detect network and hardware errors. RFC 532 FTP UCSD-CC Server-FTP facility Commands and restrictions in the UCSD Computer Center FTP service. RFC 535 FTP Comments on File Access Protocol Suggestions for extending the proposed File Access Protocol. RFC 537 Announcement of NGG meeting July 16-17 Confirmation and travel details for a Network Graphics Group meeting. RFC 544 Locating on-line documentation at SRI-ARC How to find network and SRI-ARC documentation in NLS. RFC 545 Of what quality be the UCSB resources evaluators? UCSB's response to criticism of its resource evaluations. RFC 546 Tenex load averages for July 1973 Weekday hourly load averages for two TENEX systems in July 1973. RFC 549 Minutes of Network Graphics Group meeting, 15-17 July 1973 Minutes of discussions and experiments at a Network Graphics Group meeting. RFC 550 NIC NCP experiment Message and opcode statistics from the NIC's NCP experiment. RFC 551 NYU, ANL, and LBL Joining the Net A proposal to submit remote computer jobs through FTP. RFC 552 Single access to standard protocols A proposal for one access protocol that could direct users to several network services. RFC 553 Draft design for a text/graphics protocol A draft design for sending text and graphics through a TELNET connection. RFC 570 Experimental input mapping between NVT ASCII and UCSB On Line System An experimental way to type UCSB On-Line System keys over Telnet. RFC 576 Proposal for modifying linking A proposed change to how TENEX users join linked conversations. RFC 584 Charter for ARPANET Users Interest Working Group The charter for a group that represented ARPANET user interests. RFC 585 ARPANET users interest working group meeting Notes from a meeting about making the ARPANET easier to use. RFC 592 Some thoughts on system design to facilitate resource sharing A proposal to make network systems available as reusable computer services. RFC 598 RFC index - December 5, 1973 An index of RFC documents available in December 1973. RFC 600 PLATO Terminal Interfacing an Illinois plasma terminal to the ARPANET An interface design for connecting a PLATO plasma terminal to the ARPANET. RFC 602 Network Security "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care" A warning about weak passwords, unauthenticated TIP access and break-ins. RFC 612 Traffic Stats Traffic statistics (December 1973) A table of ARPANET host throughput for December 1973. RFC 616 LATEST NETWORK MAPS Geographic and logical maps of the ARPANET in January 1974. RFC 617 Note on socket number assignment Why protocols should avoid assuming hosts can use fixed socket numbers. RFC 618 Few observations on NCP statistics Observations from NCP and IMP statistics collected at Harvard. RFC 619 Mean round-trip times in the ARPANET Measured ARPANET round-trip times from two seven-day periods in 1973. RFC 628 Status of RFC numbers and a note on pre-assigned journal numbers RFC number requests move online from SRI-ARC to NLS at OFFICE-1. RFC 631 International meeting on minicomputers and data communication: Call for papers A call for papers for a 1975 meeting in Liege, Belgium. RFC 659 Announcing additional Telnet options An announcement that RFCs 651 through 658 added Telnet options. RFC 662 Performance improvement in ARPANET file transfers from Multics An experiment using larger Multics output buffers to improve file transfers. RFC 667 Host Ports An approved BBN scheme for connecting host computers to IMPs. RFC 671 Note on Reconnection Protocol Implementation notes for using Telnet reconnection to remove an intermediary. RFC 678 Standard file formats Six proposed formats for exchanging documents that can be printed on different systems. RFC 681 Network UNIX How one UNIX system connected to the ARPANET while keeping network access in user programs. RFC 685 Response time in cross network debugging Measurements of the extra wait when a debugger communicates across the ARPANET. RFC 689 Tenex NCP finite state machine for connections The connection-state machine used by the TENEX NCP implementation. RFC 695 Official change in Host-Host Protocol A protocol correction that assigns separate ERR codes to distinct error cases. RFC 705 Front-end Protocol B6700 version A working host-to-front-end protocol that lets a front-end provide network access. RFC 707 High-level framework for network-based resource sharing A framework for making remote resources easier for programs to use and combine. RFC 708 Elements of a Distributed Programming System Proposed extensions to a remote procedure-call model for distributed programs. RFC 712 DCCS Distributed Capability Computing System (DCCS) A preprint describing remote capability access across different computer systems. RFC 716 Interim Revision to Appendix F of BBN 1822 An interim clarification of message ordering and retransmission for a Very Distant Host interface. RFC 828 Data communications: IFIP's international "network" of experts An overview of international research and standards work in data communications. RFC 840 Official protocols An official registry of Internet protocols and their standardization status. RFC 873 Illusion of vendor support Why waiting for vendor-backed ISO standards is a false hope. RFC 875 Gateways, architectures, and heffalumps Why protocol translating gateways between different networks cause deep problems. RFC 967 All victims together A proposal for collecting accounts of networking code integration in operating systems. RFC 968 Twas the night before start-up A poem about troubleshooting a network that fails on startup. RFC 1015 Implementation plan for interagency research Internet A blueprint for connecting federal research networks into a unified internet. RFC 1017 Network requirements for scientific research: Internet task force on scientific computing What networks need to do for science and engineering research. RFC 1019 Report of the Workshop on Environments for Computational Mathematics Notes from a workshop on how computers should represent and exchange mathematical expressions. RFC 1083 IAB Standards List IAB official protocol standards The Internet standards status report from December 1988: which protocols were standard, draft, proposed, experimental or historic. RFC 1124 Policy Issues Workshop Policy issues in interconnecting networks Workshop findings on policies and technology for interconnecting research networks. RFC 1707 CATNIP CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet A unified network layer format that bridges IPv4, CLNP, and IPX RFC 1980 Client-Side Image Maps A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image Maps Clickable image regions defined by the page, not the server. RFC 6123 PCE Manageability Inclusion of Manageability Sections in Path Computation Element (PCE) Working Group Drafts A historic guide asking PCE working group drafts to say how their protocols will be operated and managed. RFC 6529 Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network The protocol that connected computers on the original ARPANET. RFC 7649 The Jabber Scribe Role at IETF Meetings Volunteers who relay meeting discussions to online participants