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For some time the working group name from the IETF email announcements have been used as a keyword. As a result the keyword organization of RFCs will include lists of RFCs done by working group.
Misc. other RFCs of possible interest: "Not All RFCs are Standards" 1796, "Architectural Principles of the Internet" 1958, and "Guide for Internet Standards Writers" 2360.
The draft and proposed standards list include age of RFCs in months (with months >24 displayed in bold). Standards and Protocols documented by obsoleted RFC have number displayed in bold. An attempt is made to infer protocol relationship for post-STD1 RFC standards based on obsoleting relationship. Protocol names that match port protocol have the port number listed.
Author, Date, and Term indexes have RFCs documenting standards displayed in bold. State information from rfc-index.txt and editor announcements is discarded for pre-STD1 RFCs.
email addresses are extracted from RFC editor announcements and included in the Author index. Authors (typically organizations) that are also listed as terms, have their associated RFCs listed as such in the term index.
There has been quite a bit of data cleaning, especially with respect to updates/obsoletes and author names. In the RFC index entries, the author order is not preserved when loading into the database. When re-creating the author list for a RFC, it is built in alphabetical order.
There are a couple instances where Obsoletes/Updates may not be listed:
RFC text files are now being scanned for References section and the information extracted and presented in manner similar to Updates/UpdatedBy. Also, RFCs that mutually reference each other have the References relationship converted to symmetric "SeeAlso". For more detail, see detailed discussion
The IETF draft origin of an RFC will be listed for the first six months after it has been made an RFC.
For more complete description see "The Internet Standards Process" BCP-9 and the latest STD-1 RFC.
Information that used to appear STD-1 section 6.10 (misc. examples 2000, 2200, 2300, 2400). Only obsoleted standards listed in the most recent STD-1 are listed (standards that were published since STD-1 and then obsoleted are not listed).
1390 obsoletes 1188 Draf A Proposed Standard for the Transmission of IP Dat 5932 obsoletes 4132 Prop Addition of Camellia Cipher Suites to Transport La 5925 obsoletes 2385 Prop Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signatu 5910 obsoletes 4310 Prop Domain Name System (DNS) Security Extensions Mappi 5905 obsoletes 1305 Draf Network Time Protocol (v3) 5891 obsoletes 3491 Prop Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationaliz 5890 obsoletes 3490 Prop Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (I 5798 obsoletes 3768 Draf Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) 5795 obsoletes 4995 Prop The RObust Header Compression (ROHC) Framework 5775 obsoletes 3450 Expe Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) Protocol Instant 5755 obsoletes 3281 Prop An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Auth 5751 obsoletes 3851 Prop Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MI 5750 obsoletes 3850 Prop Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MI 5740 obsoletes 3940 Expe Negative-acknowledgment (NACK)-Oriented Reliable M 5734 obsoletes 4934 Draf Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Transport O 5733 obsoletes 4933 Draf Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Contact Map 5732 obsoletes 4932 Draf Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Host Mappin 5731 obsoletes 4931 Draf Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) Domain Name 5730 obsoletes 4930 Draf Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) 5681 obsoletes 2581 Prop TCP Congestion Control 5653 obsoletes 2853 Prop Generic Security Service API Version 2 : Java Bind 5652 obsoletes 3852 Prop Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) 5651 obsoletes 3451 Expe Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block 5613 obsoletes 4813 Expe OSPF Link-Local Signaling 5577 obsoletes 3047 Prop RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722. 5550 obsoletes 4550 Prop Internet Email to Support Diverse Service Environm 5546 obsoletes 2446 Prop iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability P 5545 obsoletes 2445 Prop Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Sp 5531 obsoletes 1831 Prop RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification 5519 obsoletes 2933 Prop Internet Group Management Protocol MIB 5519 obsoletes 3019 Prop IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The M 5492 obsoletes 3392 Draf Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4 5445 obsoletes 3695 Expe Compact Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes 5420 obsoletes 4420 Prop Encoding of Attributes for Multiprotocol Label Swi 5401 obsoletes 3941 Expe Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK)-Oriented Reliable M 5389 obsoletes 3489 Prop STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol 5380 obsoletes 4140 Expe Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Mobility Management (HMIP 5348 obsoletes 3448 Prop TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specifi 5340 obsoletes 2740 Prop OSPF for IPv6 5334 obsoletes 3534 Prop The application/ogg Media Type 5322 obsoletes 2822 Prop Internet Message Format 5321 obsoletes 2821 Prop Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 5280 obsoletes 4630 Prop Update to DirectoryString Processing in the Intern 5280 obsoletes 4325 Prop Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Authority 5280 obsoletes 3280 Prop Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certifica 5272 obsoletes 2797 Prop Certificate Management Messages over CMS 5268 obsoletes 4068 Expe Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 5250 obsoletes 2370 Prop The OSPF Opaque LSA Option 5246 obsoletes 4366 Prop Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions 5246 obsoletes 4346 Prop The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Versio 5246 obsoletes 3268 Prop Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Ciphersuites fo 5245 obsoletes 4092 Prop Usage of the Session Description Protocol (SDP) Al 5245 obsoletes 4091 Prop The Alternative Network Address Types (ANAT) Seman 5216 obsoletes 2716 Expe PPP EAP TLS Authentication Protocol 5214 obsoletes 4214 Expe Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (I 5198 obsoletes 698 Prop Telnet extended ASCII option 5175 obsoletes 5075 Prop IPv6 Router Advertisement Flags Option 5122 obsoletes 4622 Prop Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and 4305 obsoletes 2404 Prop The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH
20th Anniversary Of The Internet!, also #1, #2, #3. also RFCs: 801 and 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 842, 843, 845, 846, 847, 848, 876
Early IETF History (April 1969 to March 1987):
1000
"Request For Comments reference guide".
Also: "30 Years of RFCs"
2555 ,
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
2235,
"Working with Jon, Tribute delivered at UCLA"
2441.
reference to:
NSFnet Announcement and Award
reference to:
NSFnet -- 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight
and a few
old NSFnet related emails
Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietf.htm