Formally Deprecating Some ICMPv4 Message Types
RFC 6918
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(April 2013; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 1788
Was draft-gp-obsolete-icmp-types-iana (individual in ops area)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) F. Gont
Request for Comments: 6918 UTN-FRH / SI6 Networks
Obsoletes: 1788 C. Pignataro
Updates: 792, 950 Cisco Systems
Category: Standards Track April 2013
ISSN: 2070-1721
Formally Deprecating Some ICMPv4 Message Types
Abstract
A number of ICMPv4 message types have become obsolete in practice,
but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates
such ICMPv4 message types, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA
registry. Additionally, it updates RFC 792 and RFC 950, obsoletes
RFC 1788, and requests the RFC Editor to change the status of RFC
1788 to Historic.
Status of This Memo
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(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6918.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Discussion of Deprecated ICMPv4 Message Types . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Alternate Host Address (Type 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Information Request (Type 15) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3. Information Reply (Type 16) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.4. Address Mask Request (Type 17) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.5. Address Mask Reply (Type 18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.6. Traceroute (Type 30) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.7. Datagram Conversion Error (Type 31) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.8. Mobile Host Redirect (Type 32) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.9. IPv6 Where-Are-You (Type 33) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.10. IPv6 I-Am-Here (Type 34) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.11. Mobile Registration Request (Type 35) . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.12. Mobile Registration Reply (Type 36) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.13. Domain Name Request (Type 37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.14. Domain Name Reply (Type 38) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.15. SKIP (Type 39) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Changing the Status of RFC 1788 to Historic . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1. Introduction
A number of ICMPv4 [RFC0792] message types have been specified over
the years. A number of these message types have become obsolete in
practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document
deprecates such ICMPv4 message types, "cleaning up" the corresponding
IANA registry. Additionally, it updates RFC 792 and RFC 950,
obsoletes RFC 1788, and requests the RFC Editor to change the status
of RFC 1788 to Historic.
Section 2 discusses each of the obsoleted ICMPv4 messages. Section 4
requests the RFC Editor to change the status of RFC 1788 to Historic.
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2. Discussion of Deprecated ICMPv4 Message Types
The following subsections discuss the details of those ICMPv4 message
types being deprecated, based on publicly available information
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