Request for Comments: 3600 J. Reynolds, Ed.
Obsoletes: 3300 S. Ginoza, Ed.
STD: 1 November 2003
Category: Standards Track
Internet Official Protocol Standards
Status of this Memo
This memo is an Internet Standard. Distribution of this memo is
unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo contains a snapshot of the state of standardization of
protocols used in the Internet as of October 2, 2003. It lists
official protocol standards and Best Current Practice RFCs; it is not
a complete index to the RFC series. The latest version of this memo
is designated STD 1.
Table of Contents
1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1. Internet-Related Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.2. Request for Comments Editor (RFC Editor) Web Pages . . . 2
2.3 Retrieval using FTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.4 Search and Retrieval Using Email . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Current Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Standard Protocols Ordered by STD . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Standard Protocols Ordered by RFC . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3. Draft Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.4. Proposed Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.5. Best Current Practice by BCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.6. Best Current Practice by RFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3.7. Experimental Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5. Editors’ Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
1. Overview
This memo contains a snapshot of the state of standardization of
protocols used in the Internet, as determined by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF). It is an October 2, 2003 snapshot of
the current official protocol standards list and the Best Current
Practice list, which is updated daily and is available from the RFC
Editor Web site.
The RFC Editor publishes Request for Comments (RFC) documents that
are the output of the IETF process or are submitted individually via
electronic mail. Further information about the RFC series is
contained in section 2.1, RFC 2026 and at http://www.rfc-editor.org.
This memo is published by the RFC Editor for the IESG and IAB in
accordance with Section 2.1 of "The Internet Standards Process --
Revision 3", RFC 2026, which specifies the rules and procedures by
which all Internet standards are set. Sections 3.1 - 3.7 of this
memo contain the lists of protocols in each stage of standardization
- Standard, Draft Standard, Proposed Standard, Experimental, as well
as Best Current Practice documents. Protocols that are new to this
document or have been moved from one protocol level to another, or
that differ from the previous edition of this document are marked
with an asterisk. Informational and Historic RFCs are not included.
This memo lists the current standards track, Best Current Practice,
and Experimental protocols; it is not a complete index to RFCs.
2. Resources
This section contains important contact information, for reference.
2.1. Internet-Related Organizations
Internet Architecture Board (IAB) Contact: www.iab.org
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Contact: www.ietf.org
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Contact: www.irtf.org
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Contact: www.iana.org
2.2. Request for Comments Editor (RFC Editor) Web Pages
The RFC Editor maintains the official repository of all RFCs and
indexes to them. The RFC Editor web site is:
http://www.rfc-editor.org.
At this URL, a user can:
(a) Obtain the current "Internet Official Protocol Standards" list.
See:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html
This hyper-linked listing is updated daily.
(b) Retrieve the latest version of this STD 1 memo. See:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/go.html, and select STD and "1".
(c) Retrieve text of any RFC. See:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/go.html
(d) Search for RFCs by category. See:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/category.html
(e) Search the RFC index for document number, author, title, and/or
keywords, and retrieve the text of any matching documents. See:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html
RFC information can also be retrieved using FTP or email.
2.3 Retrieval using FTP
RFC-related files may be copied via FTP from the FTP.RFC-EDITOR.ORG
computer using the FTP username "anonymous" and password
"name@host.domain". An FTP user can:
(a) Retrieve the latest version of this STD 1 memo.
File: "in-notes/std/std1.txt"
(b) Retrieve text of any RFC.
File: "in-notes/rfcnnnn.txt" will retrieve the ASCII version.
Some RFCs also have secondary Postscript and/or PDF versions,
available from File: "in-notes/rfcnnnn.ps" and/or
"in-notes/rfcnnnn.pdf", respectively.
Here "nnnn" is a 1-4 digit RFC number, with no leading zeros.
2.4 Search and Retrieval Using Email
To use the RFC Editor’s email-based RFC-INFO service, send a request
to:
RFC-INFO@RFC-EDITOR.ORG
In the message body, include your information request. For example,
the following message bodies may be used.
(a) To retrieve the latest version of this STD 1 memo:
Retrieve: STD
Doc-ID: STD0001
(b) To retrieve ASCII text of any RFC:
Retrieve: RFC
Doc-ID: RFCnnnn
Here "nnnn" must be filled with leading zeros to 4 digits.
(c) The RFC-INFO@RFC-EDITOR.ORG server provides other capabilities,
e.g., search and retrieval based on author, title, and/or
keyword. For more information, send the following message body
to the server:
help: help
The server will email back the results.
3. Current Technical Specifications
3.1. Standard Protocols Ordered by STD
Mnemonic Title RFC# STD#
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------- Internet Official Protocol Standards 3600 1*
-------- [Reserved for Assigned Numbers. See RFC 1700 and 2
RFC 3232.]
-------- Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication 1122 3
Layers
-------- Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application 1123 3
and Support
-------- [Reserved for Router Requirements. See RFC 1812.] 4
IP Internet Protocol 791 5
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol 792 5
--------- Broadcasting Internet Datagrams 919 5
--------- Broadcasting Internet datagrams in the presence 922 5
of subnets
-------- Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure 950 5
IGMP Host extensions for IP multicasting 1112 5
UDP User Datagram Protocol 768 6
TCP Transmission Control Protocol 793 7
TELNET Telnet Protocol Specification 854 8
TELNET Telnet Option Specifications 855 8
FTP File Transfer Protocol 959 9
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 821 10
SMTP-SIZE SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration 1870 10
MAIL Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text 822 11
messages
-------- [Reserved for Network Time Protocol (NTP). See RFC 12
1305.]
DOMAIN Domain names - concepts and facilities 1034 13
DOMAIN Domain names - implementation and specification 1035 13
-------- [Was Mail Routing and the Domain System. Now 14
Historic.]
-------- [Was Simple Network Management Protocol. Now 15
Historic.]
SMI Structure and identification of management 1155 16
information for TCP/IP-based internets
Concise-MI Concise MIB definitions 1212 16
MIB-II Management Information Base for Network Management 1213 17
of TCP/IP-based internets:MIB-II
-------- [Was Exterior Gateway Protocol (RFC 904). Now 18
Historic.]
NETBIOS Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on 1001 19
a TCP/UDP transport: Concepts and methods
NETBIOS Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on 1002 19
a TCP/UDP transport: Detailed specifications
ECHO Echo Protocol 862 20
DISCARD Discard Protocol 863 21
CHARGEN Character Generator Protocol 864 22
QUOTE Quote of the Day Protocol 865 23
USERS Active users 866 24
DAYTIME Daytime Protocol 867 25
TIME Time Protocol 868 26
TOPT-BIN Telnet Binary Transmission 856 27
TOPT-ECHO Telnet Echo Option 857 28
TOPT-SUPP Telnet Suppress Go Ahead Option 858 29
TOPT-STAT Telnet Status Option 859 30
TOPT-TIM Telnet Timing Mark Option 860 31
TOPT-EXTOP Telnet Extended Options: List Option 861 32
TFTP The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2) 1350 33
-------- [Was Routing Information Protocol (RIP). Replaced 34
by STD 56.]
TP-TCP ISO transport services on top of the TCP: 1006 35
Version 3
IP-FDDI Transmission of IP and ARP over FDDI Networks 1390 36
ARP Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or converting 826 37
network protocol addresses to 48.bit Ethernet
address for transmission on Ethernet hardware
RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol 903 38
IP-ARPA [Was BBN Report 1822 (IMP/Host Interface). Now 39
Historic.]
IP-WB Host Access Protocol specification 907 40
IP-E Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams 894 41
over Ethernet networks
IP-EE Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams 895 42
over experimental Ethernet networks
IP-IEEE Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams 1042 43
over IEEE 802 networks
IP-DC DCN local-network protocols 891 44
IP-HC Internet Protocol on Network System’s HYPERchannel: 1044 45
Protocol specification
IP-ARC Transmitting IP traffic over ARCNET networks 1201 46
IP-SLIP Nonstandard for transmission of IP datagrams 1055 47
over serial lines: SLIP
IP-NETBIOS Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams 1088 48
over NetBIOS networks
IP-IPX Standard for the transmission of 802.2 packets 1132 49
over IPX networks
-------- [Reserved for Definitions of Managed Objects for 50*
the Ethernet-like Interface Types. See RFC
3638.]
PPP The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) 1661 51
PPP-HDLC PPP in HDLC-like Framing 1662 51
IP-SMDS Transmission of IP datagrams over the SMDS Service 1209 52
POP3 Post Office Protocol - Version 3 1939 53
OSPF2 OSPF Version 2 2328 54
IP-FR Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay 2427 55
RIP2 RIP Version 2 2453 56
RIP2-APP RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement 1722 57
SMIv2 Structure of Management Information Version 2578 58
2 (SMIv2)
CONV-MIB Textual Conventions for SMIv2 2579 58
CONF-MIB Conformance Statements for SMIv2 2580 58
RMON-MIB Remote Network Monitoring Management Information 2819 59
Base
SMTP-Pipe SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining 2920 60
ONE-PASS A One-Time Password System 2289 61
ARCH-SNMP An Architecture for Describing Simple Network 3411 62*
Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks
MPD-SNMP Message Processing and Dispatching for the 3412 62*
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
SNMP-APP Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) 3413 62*
Applications
USM-SNMPV3 User-based Security Model (USM) for version 3414 62*
3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMPv3)
VACM-SNMP View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for 3415 62*
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
OPS-MIB Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the 3416 62*
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
TRANS-MIB Transport Mappings for the Simple Network 3417 62*
Management Protocol (SNMP)
SNMPv2-MIB Management Information Base (MIB) for the 3418 62*
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
[Note: an asterisk at the end of a line indicates a change from the
previous edition of this document.]
3.2. Standard Protocols Ordered by RFC
Mnemonic Title STD# RFC#
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------- Internet Official Protocol Standards 1 3600*
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
SNMPv2-MIB Management Information Base (MIB) for the 62 3418*
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
TRANS-MIB Transport Mappings for the Simple Network 62 3417*
Management Protocol (SNMP)
OPS-MIB Version 2 of the Protocol Operations for the 62 3416*
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
VACM-SNMP View-based Access Control Model (VACM) for 62 3415*
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
USM-SNMPV3 User-based Security Model (USM) for version 62 3414*
3 of the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMPv3)
SNMP-APP Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) 62 3413*
Applications
MPD-SNMP Message Processing and Dispatching for the 62 3412*
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
ARCH-SNMP An Architecture for Describing Simple Network 62 3411*
Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks
SMTP-Pipe SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining 60 2920
RMON-MIB Remote Network Monitoring Management Information 59 2819
Base
CONF-MIB Conformance Statements for SMIv2 58 2580
CONV-MIB Textual Conventions for SMIv2 58 2579
SMIv2 Structure of Management Information Version 58 2578
2 (SMIv2)
RIP2 RIP Version 2 56 2453
IP-FR Multiprotocol Interconnect over Frame Relay 55 2427
OSPF2 OSPF Version 2 54 2328
ONE-PASS A One-Time Password System 61 2289
POP3 Post Office Protocol - Version 3 53 1939
SMTP-SIZE SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration 10 1870
RIP2-APP RIP Version 2 Protocol Applicability Statement 57 1722
PPP-HDLC PPP in HDLC-like Framing 51 1662
PPP The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) 51 1661
IP-FDDI Transmission of IP and ARP over FDDI Networks 36 1390
TFTP The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2) 33 1350
MIB-II Management Information Base for Network Management 17 1213
of TCP/IP-based internets:MIB-II
Concise-MI Concise MIB definitions 16 1212
IP-SMDS Transmission of IP datagrams over the SMDS Service 52 1209
IP-ARC Transmitting IP traffic over ARCNET networks 46 1201
SMI Structure and identification of management 16 1155
information for TCP/IP-based internets
IP-IPX Standard for the transmission of 802.2 packets 49 1132
over IPX networks
-------- Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application 3 1123
and Support
-------- Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication 3 1122
Layers
IGMP Host extensions for IP multicasting 5 1112
IP-NETBIOS Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams 48 1088
over NetBIOS networks
IP-SLIP Nonstandard for transmission of IP datagrams 47 1055
over serial lines: SLIP
IP-HC Internet Protocol on Network System’s HYPERchannel: 45 1044
Protocol specification
IP-IEEE Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams 43 1042
over IEEE 802 networks
DOMAIN Domain names - implementation and specification 13 1035
DOMAIN Domain names - concepts and facilities 13 1034
TP-TCP ISO transport services on top of the TCP: 35 1006
Version 3
NETBIOS Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on 19 1002
a TCP/UDP transport: Detailed specifications
NETBIOS Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on 19 1001
a TCP/UDP transport: Concepts and methods
FTP File Transfer Protocol 9 959
-------- Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure 5 950
--------- Broadcasting Internet datagrams in the presence 5 922
of subnets
--------- Broadcasting Internet Datagrams 5 919
IP-WB Host Access Protocol specification 40 907