Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Routing Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents
RFC 3791
Document | Type | RFC - Informational (June 2004; No errata) | |
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Authors | Cesar Olvera , Philip Nesser | ||
Last updated | 2013-03-02 | ||
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Network Working Group C. Olvera Request for Comments: 3791 Consulintel Category: Informational P. Nesser, II Nesser & Nesser Consulting June 2004 Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Routing Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). Abstract This investigation work seeks to document all usage of IPv4 addresses in currently deployed IETF Routing Area documented standards. In order to successfully transition from an all IPv4 Internet to an all IPv6 Internet, many interim steps will be taken. One of these steps is the evolution of current protocols that have IPv4 dependencies. It is hoped that these protocols (and their implementations) will be redesigned to be network address independent, but failing that will at least dually support IPv4 and IPv6. To this end, all Standards (Full, Draft, and Proposed) as well as Experimental RFCs will be surveyed and any dependencies will be documented. Table of Contents 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Document Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Full Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Draft Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Proposed Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6. Experimental RFCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7. Summary of Results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 9. Acknowledgements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 10. References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Olvera & Nesser II Informational [Page 1] RFC 3791 IPv4 Addresses in the IETF Routing Area June 2004 11. Authors' Addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 12. Full Copyright Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1. Introduction This work aims to document all usage of IPv4 addresses in currently deployed IETF Routing Area documented standards. Also, throughout this document there are discussions on how routing protocols might be updated to support IPv6 addresses. This material was originally presented within a single document, but in an effort to have the information in a manageable form, it has subsequently been split into 7 documents conforming to the current IETF main areas (Application [2], Internet [3], Operations & Management [4], Routing [this document], Security [5], Sub-IP [6] and Transport [7]). The general overview, methodology used during documentation and scope of the investigation for the whole 7 documents can be found in the introduction of this set of documents [1]. It is important to mention that to perform this study the following classes of IETF standards are investigated: Full, Draft, and Proposed, as well as Experimental. Informational, BCP and Historic RFCs are not addressed. RFCs that have been obsoleted by either newer versions or as they have transitioned through the standards process are also not covered. 2. Document Organization The main Sections of this document are described below. Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 each describe the raw analysis of Full, Draft, Proposed Standards and Experimental RFCs. Each RFC is discussed in its turn starting with RFC 1 and ending (around) RFC 3100. The comments for each RFC are "raw" in nature. That is, each RFC is discussed in a vacuum and problems or issues discussed do not "look ahead" to see if the problems have already been fixed. Section 7 is an analysis of the data presented in Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6. It is here that all of the results are considered as a whole and the problems that have been resolved in later RFCs are correlated. Olvera & Nesser II Informational [Page 2] RFC 3791 IPv4 Addresses in the IETF Routing Area June 2004 3. Full Standards Full Internet Standards (most commonly simply referred to as "Standards") are fully mature protocol specification that are widely implemented and used throughout the Internet. 3.1. RFC 1722 (STD 57) RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability StatementShow full document text