An Inventory of Transport-Centric Functions Provided by Middleboxes: An Operator Perspective
RFC 8517

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8517, changed title to 'An Inventory of Transport-Centric Functions Provided by Middleboxes: An Operator Perspective', changed abstract to 'This document summarizes an operator's perception of the benefits that may be provided by intermediary devices that execute functions beyond normal IP forwarding. Such intermediary devices are often called "middleboxes".

RFC 3234 defines a taxonomy of middleboxes and issues in the Internet. Most of those middleboxes utilize or modify application- layer data. This document primarily focuses on devices that observe and act on information carried in the transport layer, and especially information carried in TCP packets.', changed pages to 21, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2019-02-05, changed ISE state to Published RFC)

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The IANA Functions Operator has reviewed draft-dolson-transport-middlebox-04 and has the following comments:

We understand that this document doesn't require any registry actions.

While it's often helpful for a document's IANA Considerations section to remain in place upon publication even if there are no actions, if the authors strongly prefer to remove it, we do not object.

If this assessment is not accurate, please respond as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Amanda Baber
IANA Services Specialist