Formally Obsoleting some Historic IPv4 Options
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Int-Area C. Pignataro
Internet-Draft Cisco Systems
Intended status: Standards Track F. Gont
Expires: September 1, 2012 UTN-FRH / SI6 Networks
February 29, 2012
Formally Obsoleting some Historic IPv4 Options
draft-gp-intarea-obsolete-ipv4-options-iana-00
Abstract
A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have
never been formally obsoleted. This document obsoletes such IPv4
options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry, and
serving as a basis for providing advice about the filtering of
packets containing these options.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Discussion of Obsoleted Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Stream ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Extended Internet Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3. Traceroute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.4. Address Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.5. Selective Directed Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.6. Dynamic Packet State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.7. Upstream Multicast Pkt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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1. Introduction
The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) [RFC0791] provides for
expansion of the protocol by supporting a number of "options" in the
variable-length IPv4 header. IPv4 options are identified by an
option "type" value, whose registration is managed by IANA [IANA-IP].
A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have
never been formally obsoleted. This document obsoletes such IPv4
options, "cleaning up" the corresponding IANA registry.
2. Discussion of Obsoleted Options
2.1. Stream ID
The Stream ID option is obsolete. It is specified in RFC 791
[RFC0791], and obsoleted in Section 3.2.1.8 of RFC 1122 [RFC1122] and
Section 4.2.2.1 of RFC 1812 [RFC1812].
2.2. Extended Internet Protocol
The Extended Internet Protocol option is defined in [RFC1385], and is
superseded by [RFC2460].
2.3. Traceroute
The Traceroute option is defined in [RFC1393]. The Traceroute option
is defined as "experimental" and it was never widely deployed on the
public Internet.
2.4. Address Extension
The Address Extension option is defined in the Experimental
[RFC1475], and marked as IPv7.
2.5. Selective Directed Broadcast
The Selective Directed Broadcast option is originally defined in
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