Internet Official Protocol Standards
RFC 2400
Document | Type |
RFC - Historic
(September 1998; No errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 2500
Obsoletes RFC 2300
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Last updated | 2013-03-02 | ||
Stream | Legacy | ||
Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
Stream | Legacy state | (None) | |
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RFC Editor Note | (None) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 2400 (Historic) | |
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Network Working Group Internet Architecture Board Request for Comments: 2400 J. Postel Obsoletes: 2300, 2200, 2000, 1920, 1880, J. Reynolds 1800, 1780, 1720, 1610, 1600, 1540, 1500, 1410, Editors 1360, 1280, 1250, 1200, 1140, 1130, 1100, 1083 September 1998 STD: 1 Category: Standards Track INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS Status of this Memo This memo describes the state of standardization of protocols used in the Internet as determined by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). This memo is an Internet Standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998). All Rights Reserved. Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1. The Standardization Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. The Request for Comments Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Other Reference Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.1. Assigned Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.2. Gateway Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3. Host Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.4. The MIL-STD Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4. Explanation of Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. Definitions of Protocol State (Maturity Level) . . . . . 8 4.1.1. Standard Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.1.2. Draft Standard Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.1.3. Proposed Standard Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.1.4. Experimental Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.1.5. Informational Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.1.6. Historic Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2. Definitions of Protocol Status (Requirement Level) . . . 9 4.2.1. Required Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2.2. Recommended Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2.3. Elective Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2.4. Limited Use Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2.5. Not Recommended Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5. The Standards Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Internet Architecture Board Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 2400 Internet Standards September 1998 5.1. The RFC Processing Decision Table . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5.2. The Standards Track Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6. The Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6.1. Recent Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6.1.1. New RFCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6.1.2. Other Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 6.2. Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6.3. Network-Specific Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . 23 6.4. Draft Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 6.5. Proposed Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 6.6. Telnet Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6.7. Experimental Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 6.8. Informational Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 6.9. Historic Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 6.10 Obsolete Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 7. Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 7.1. IAB, IETF, and IRTF Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 7.1.1. Internet Architecture Board (IAB) Contact . . . . . . 42 7.1.2. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Contact . . . . 42 7.1.3. Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Contact . . . . . 43 7.2. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Contact . . . 44 7.3. Request for Comments Editor Contact . . . . . . . . . . 45 7.4. Network Information Center Contact . . . . . . . . . . . 45 7.5. Sources for Requests for Comments . . . . . . . . . . . 46 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 9. Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 10. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Introduction A discussion of the standardization process and the RFC document series is presented first, followed by an explanation of the terms. Sections 6.2 - 6.10 contain the lists of protocols in each stage of standardization. Finally, there are pointers to references and contacts for further information. This memo is intended to be issued every one hundred RFCs; please be sure the copy you are reading is current. Current copies may be obtained from the Requests for Comments Editor (RFC-EDITOR) or fromShow full document text