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RFC 2026 Internet Standards Process The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3 The rulebook for how an idea becomes an Internet Standard, from Proposed Standard to full Standard. RFC 2119 MUST/SHOULD/MAY Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels Defining the precise meaning of MUST, SHOULD, MAY and other requirement keywords RFC 2578 SMIv2 Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2) The grammar and rulebook for writing down the managed objects that network devices expose through SNMP. RFC 2418 IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures The rulebook for how IETF working groups are formed, run, staffed and closed down. RFC 2579 SMIv2 Conventions Textual Conventions for SMIv2 A way to give MIB data types their own names, meanings and display formats, plus the first set of ready-made ones. RFC 2580 SMIv2 Conformance Conformance Statements for SMIv2 The notation MIB authors use to say what an SNMP agent must implement, and what a given product actually does. RFC 8174 RFC 2119 Clarification Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words A short fix that says only ALL-CAPS MUST and SHOULD carry the special RFC 2119 meanings. RFC 7841 RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates The fixed cover-page header and Status of This Memo text that tell readers which stream an RFC came from and how it was reviewed. RFC 2850 IAB charter Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) The rules for who sits on the Internet Architecture Board, how they are chosen and what the board does. RFC 8713 NomCom and recall IAB, IESG, IETF Trust, and IETF LLC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the IETF Nominating and Recall Committees How the IETF picks, confirms and removes its leaders: a random committee of volunteers, a confirming body for each seat, and a petition-driven recall. RFC 5727 Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area How SIP and other real-time work in the IETF gets proposed, filtered and approved, and why the old "P-" header route was dropped. RFC 2606 Reserved Domains Reserved Top Level DNS Names Four top level domain names set aside so tests and examples never collide with real names. RFC 1149 IP over Avian Carriers A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers IP datagrams on a paper scroll wrapped around a bird's leg. RFC 1958 Architectural Principles Architectural Principles of the Internet The foundational design philosophy behind the Internet's architecture RFC 3692 Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful Reserve a few protocol numbers for testing instead of lending out temporary real ones. RFC 7258 Pervasive Monitoring Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack The IETF declares large-scale surveillance a technical attack and commits to designing protocols that make it harder. RFC 1011 Official Protocols Official Internet protocols A May 1987 checklist of which documents define the Internet's protocols, and how required each one was. RFC 3967 Down-Refs Clarifying when Standards Track Documents may Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level When a standards track RFC may lean on a less mature document, and the Last Call step that makes it legitimate. RFC 8729 RFC Series framework The RFC Series and RFC Editor The IAB's framework for who runs the RFC Series, who approves documents, and how the four streams fit together. RFC 3710 IESG charter An IESG charter A written description of what the IESG does to run the IETF and keep its output good. RFC 7322 RFC Style Guide RFC Style Guide The RFC Editor's rules for how an RFC is written, structured and cited. RFC 5378 Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust What you hand over to the IETF Trust when you submit an idea, and what you get to keep. RFC 36 Protocol Notes Crocker's 1970 notes refining RFC 33: connection setup, flow control and a scheme for reconnection. RFC 7776 IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures How the IETF receives, investigates and acts on reports of harassment, through a small appointed team called the Ombudsteam. RFC 33 New Host-Host Protocol The 1970 paper that lays out the ARPA network's HOST-HOST protocol: sockets, connections and control commands. RFC 7991 xml2rfc v3 The "xml2rfc" Version 3 Vocabulary The XML tag set that authors use to write RFCs and Internet-Drafts, in its third edition. RFC 16 M.I.T A one-paragraph 1969 note saying where to mail Network Working Group memos at M.I.T. RFC 3987 IRI Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) Web-style identifiers that can use characters from any script, with a fixed rule for turning them into plain URIs. RFC 8609 CCNx TLV Messages Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) Messages in TLV Format How CCNx requests and responses are laid out as bytes: an 8-byte fixed header and nested type-length-value boxes. RFC 8719 IETF meeting policy High-Level Guidance for the Meeting Policy of the IETF The 1-1-1-* policy for rotating IETF meetings between North America, Europe and Asia. RFC 9245 IETF Discussion List IETF Discussion List Charter What the main IETF mailing list is for, what does not belong on it, and who keeps order. RFC 4846 Independent Submissions to the RFC Editor How documents that do not come from the IETF get reviewed and published as RFCs. RFC 8730 Independent Sub. Editor Independent Submission Editor Model The job description of the Independent Submission Editor, who approves RFCs that come from outside the IETF, IAB and IRTF. RFC 8615 Well-Known URIs Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) A reserved /.well-known/ path prefix so protocols can find site-wide metadata without trampling a site's own URLs. RFC 1550 IPng white papers IP: Next Generation (IPng) White Paper Solicitation A 1993 call for white papers on what the next version of IP should have to do. RFC 7997 Non-ASCII in RFCs The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs The rules for when and how RFCs may use characters beyond plain ASCII. RFC 8718 Meeting venue process IETF Plenary Meeting Venue Selection Process The community's requirements for choosing where the IETF holds its plenary meetings, from mandatory facilities to nice-to-haves. RFC 3935 A Mission Statement for the IETF The IETF's one-sentence goal, its mission, and the five principles it promises to follow. RFC 1737 URN requirements Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names The minimum requirements for a name that identifies a resource forever, whatever happens to where it lives. RFC 3234 Middleboxes Middleboxes: Taxonomy and Issues A catalogue of the devices that sit between two hosts and do more than forward packets, and what they cost the Internet. RFC 24 Documentation Conventions The 1969 ground rules for writing and circulating Network Working Group notes. RFC 116 Structure of the May NWG Meeting The chair's plan for running the May 1971 Network Working Group meeting in Atlantic City. RFC 385 FTP Comments Comments on the File Transfer Protocol Errata, clarifications and new commands for the 1972 File Transfer Protocol of RFC 354. RFC 2555 30 Years of RFCs 30 Years of RFCs A thirtieth-anniversary tribute to the RFC series, told by people who helped create and run it. RFC 4838 DTN Architecture Delay-Tolerant Networking Architecture A store-and-forward overlay for networks where links are slow, intermittent or absent. RFC 9720 RFC Formats and Versions RFC Formats and Versions How RFCs are published: one definitive XML file, with HTML, text and PDF versions rendered from it. RFC 7154 IETF Guidelines for Conduct A short code of conduct for the people who write Internet standards: be respectful, argue ideas not people, and think about the whole Internet. RFC 2014 IRTF Group Guidelines IRTF Research Group Guidelines and Procedures How IRTF research groups are formed, run and closed, and who does what. RFC 2860 IANA MoU Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority The written agreement that says how IANA does protocol parameter work for the IETF. RFC 3238 IAB Architectural and Policy Considerations for Open Pluggable Edge Services The IAB's checklist of integrity, consent and privacy issues that any in-network content-editing service must address. RFC 3553 An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters Gives IANA-registered protocol parameters stable URN names under urn:ietf:params. RFC 4052 IAB Liaison Processes IAB Processes for Management of IETF Liaison Relationships How the IAB sets up liaisons with other standards bodies, appoints liaison managers, and approves liaison statements. RFC 8179 IETF IPR Policy Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology Who must tell the IETF about patents, when, and how, so working groups can choose technology with open eyes. RFC 9920 RFC Editor Model v3 RFC Editor Model (Version 3) Who writes the rules for the RFC Series, who approves them, and who actually publishes the RFCs. RFC 6702 IPR Disclosure Rules Promoting Compliance with Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Disclosure Rules Suggests moments in the IETF document process where chairs and area directors can ask authors to disclose patents. RFC 6920 Naming Things with Hashes Standard ways to name a digital object by the output of a hash function, so the name can verify the content. RFC 3933 A Model for IETF Process Experiments How the IETF can try out a change to its own rules for a limited time before making it permanent. RFC 4048 RFC 1888 Is Obsolete RFC 1888 Is Obsolete A short memo recommending that RFC 1888, on OSI addresses inside IPv6, be reclassified as Historic. RFC 9945 IETF moderation IETF Community Moderation How the IETF handles disruptive behavior on its mailing lists, chats and other public forums. RFC 2804 IETF Policy on Wiretapping The IETF and IAB explain why wiretapping features will not be designed into IETF standards. RFC 54 Official Protocol Proffering The June 1970 draft of the first official host-to-host protocol of the early ARPA network, offered for comment. RFC 467 Host-Host resync Proposed change to Host-Host Protocol: Resynchronization of connection status A proposal to repair a single ARPANET connection whose two ends disagree, without resetting everything. RFC 690 Comments on the proposed Host/IMP Protocol changes Jon Postel annotates a proposed list of Host/IMP protocol changes, point by point. RFC 1287 Towards the Future Internet Architecture Planning the Internet's evolution to handle massive growth and new applications. RFC 1311 STD Notes Introduction to the STD Notes How the STD subseries labels which RFCs document Internet standards, and how STD numbers work. RFC 6410 Two maturity levels Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels The IETF standards track goes from three maturity levels to two, and annual review is dropped. RFC 1160 IAB History Internet Activities Board A 1990 snapshot of the Internet Activities Board, its two task forces, its members and its agenda. RFC 8714 IETF Trust trustees Update to the Process for Selection of Trustees for the IETF Trust Why the IETF Trust's five trustees are now picked on their own instead of coming from a defunct oversight committee. RFC 1715 H ratio The H Ratio for Address Assignment Efficiency A logarithmic yardstick for how efficiently an address space is actually used. RFC 7992 HTML Format for RFCs The rules for the self-contained, strict-subset HTML version of every RFC and Internet-Draft. RFC 7993 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Requirements for RFCs What the default style sheet for the HTML version of RFCs must do, from fonts to printing. RFC 8280 Human Rights Review Research into Human Rights Protocol Considerations A research group's attempt to link protocol design to human rights, and a questionnaire for protocol authors. RFC 6949 RFC Series Format Requirements and Future Development A 2013 wish list for how RFCs should look: which plain-text rules to keep, add and retire. RFC 9389 NomCom Eligibility Nominating Committee Eligibility Who may volunteer for the IETF's Nominating Committee once meetings can be attended online. RFC 5328 DVB URN Namespace A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) How the DVB Project registered the urn:dvb namespace to name its standards, schemas and metadata. RFC 6756 IETF-ITU-T collaboration Internet Engineering Task Force and International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication Standardization Sector Collaboration Guidelines How the IETF and the ITU-T keep each other informed, share documents and avoid duplicate work. RFC 7241 IEEE 802/IETF relationship The IEEE 802/IETF Relationship How two independent standards bodies, one for LANs and one for the Internet, coordinate their work. RFC 8569 CCNx Semantics Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) Semantics A network that fetches content by hierarchical name instead of by host address, using Interests and Content Objects. RFC 27 Documentation Conventions Documentation Conventions The early rules for writing Network Working Group notes: timely, informal and open to anyone. RFC 308 ARPANET host availability data The MIT-DMCG SURVEY program, which knocked on every ARPANET host every 15 minutes to see who was answering. RFC 381 Three aids to improved network operation BBN reserves Tuesday mornings for IMP reloads, adds warnings before shutdowns and reworks the IMP-to-Host messages. RFC 7575 Autonomic Networking Autonomic Networking: Definitions and Design Goals Networks that configure and heal themselves with minimal human intervention. RFC 495 Telnet Telnet Protocol specifications The cover note that announced a new official TELNET specification and a phase-in schedule for it. RFC 1983 Internet Users' Glossary Internet Users' Glossary An alphabetical glossary of Internet-specific terms, written to help ordinary users follow the language. RFC 7927 ICN Research Challenges Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Research Challenges A research-group survey of the open technical problems in building networks around named data instead of host addresses. RFC 454 FTP File Transfer Protocol - meeting announcement and a new proposed document A meeting call and a rewritten FTP proposal meant to settle the objections raised against RFC 354. RFC 1987 Ipsilon GSMP Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1 Ipsilon's master-slave protocol for letting a controller set up connections on an ATM switch and watch its ports. RFC 2324 HTCPCP Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) HTTP, extended to brew coffee, and the origin of “418 I’m a teapot” RFC 6292 Requirements for a Working Group Charter Tool A wish list for a web tool that would let IETF Area Directors create, change and close working groups. RFC 6585 HTTP Status 428/429/431/511 Additional HTTP Status Codes Introducing 429 Too Many Requests and other essential HTTP status codes RFC 7994 Plain-Text RFCs Requirements for Plain-Text RFCs What the plain-text rendering of an RFC must look like now that XML is the canonical source. RFC 7995 PDF for RFCs PDF Format for RFCs Options and recommendations for rendering RFCs and Internet-Drafts as PDF files. RFC 3797 Verifiable Random Selection Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection How to pick people at random so that anyone can check afterwards that nobody cheated. RFC 2775 Internet Transparency How firewalls, NATs and other middle boxes eroded the Internet's end-to-end design, and the futures that might follow. RFC 3677 IETF ISOC Board of Trustee Appointment Procedures How the IETF picks the person it names to the Internet Society's Board of Trustees each year. RFC 4903 Multi-Link Subnet Issues Why subnets should not span multiple network links RFC 5218 What Makes for a Successful Protocol? Identifying why some Internet protocols succeed and others fail RFC 5657 Draft Standard Reports Guidance on Interoperation and Implementation Reports for Advancement to Draft Standard How to write an implementation report that proves a protocol is ready for Draft Standard, with less paperwork. RFC 6963 Example URNs A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Examples A reserved URN namespace, urn:example, for safe pretend identifiers in documentation and tests. RFC 8406 Network coding taxonomy Taxonomy of Coding Techniques for Efficient Network Communications Standard vocabulary for describing network coding techniques and concepts. RFC 1000 RFC Reference Guide Request for Comments Reference Guide A 1987 catalogue of the first 999 RFCs, grouped by topic and summarised one by one. RFC 101 Notes on the Network Working Group meeting, Urbana, Illinois, February 17, 1971 Richard Watson's notes on a February 1971 Network Working Group meeting, from site status reports to the first committees. RFC 212 NWG meeting on network usage A notice that the October 1971 Network Working Group meeting moved two weeks later, with a theme of network usage. RFC 288 Network host status BBN's status report on which ARPANET hosts answered test connections from December 20 to 30, 1971. RFC 319 Network Host Status A snapshot of which ARPANET hosts answered test connections between 28 February and 10 March 1972. RFC 330 Network Host Status The next ARPANET host status snapshot, covering 27 March to 7 April 1972. RFC 370 Network Host Status BBN's status report on ARPANET hosts for July 17 to July 28, 1972, including the new IMP software release. RFC 3232 Assigned Numbers: RFC 1700 is Replaced by an On-line Database The memo that retired the printed Assigned Numbers RFC in favor of an online database. RFC 7100 Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document The IETF stops maintaining the Internet Official Protocol Standards list known as STD 1. RFC 7942 Implementation Status Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section A lightweight way for Internet-Draft authors to list who has actually implemented their protocol. RFC 1 First RFC Host Software A 1969 discussion paper on what software the first ARPANET hosts would need to talk to each other. RFC 7405 Case-Sensitive String Support in ABNF A %s prefix that lets ABNF grammars say a quoted string must match letter case exactly. RFC 1208 Networking Glossary A Glossary of Networking Terms A pocket dictionary of networking terms and acronyms handed out at Interop 90, preserved as an RFC. RFC 1900 Renumbering Needs Work Renumbering Needs Work The IAB warns that changing IP addresses will get more common and asks for tools and habits that make it easier. RFC 3514 Evil Bit The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header An April 1st joke: a single header bit that attackers are supposed to set to 1 to announce evil intent. RFC 5887 Renumbering Still Needs Work Site network renumbering is painful and error-prone; existing tools help but gaps remain. RFC 6709 Design Considerations for Protocol Extensions Architectural principles for designing protocols that can safely evolve through extensions. RFC 7476 Information-Centric Networking: Baseline Scenarios Reference scenarios to fairly compare different information-centric network designs. RFC 1109 Net Mgmt Review Report of the second Ad Hoc Network Management Review Group The 1989 follow-up review that loosened the link between SNMP and CMOT and their shared MIB. RFC 111 Pressure from the Chairman The Network Working Group chair asks every site for a real schedule for its network software. RFC 140 Agenda for the May NWG meeting The day-by-day agenda for the May 1971 Network Working Group meeting, with reading lists of earlier RFCs. RFC 193 NETWORK CHECKOUT A July 1971 scoreboard of which early ARPANET sites had passed which software checks. RFC 222 Subject: System programmer's workshop An invitation to a small hands-on workshop where system programmers test every Telnet connection at MIT. RFC 497 Traffic Statistics (March 1973) A monthly scoreboard of how many packets each ARPANET host sent in March 1973. RFC 509 Traffic statistics (April 1973) The April 1973 edition of the monthly ARPANET host traffic scoreboard. RFC 579 Traffic statistics (September 1973) BBN's table of how many packets each ARPANET host sent in September 1973, with a note that the reports may leave the RFC series. RFC 597 Host status A December 1973 snapshot of the ARPANET maps and the list of connected Hosts. RFC 603 Response to RFC 597: Host status A short list of questions about how well connected the ARPANET map of November 1973 was. RFC 1925 12 Networking Truths The Twelve Networking Truths Twelve fundamental truths and paradoxes of network design. RFC 3233 Defining the IETF A short note that finally says what 'the IETF' means: an open community, not a company or a club with formal membership. RFC 3535 Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop A report on the 2002 meeting where network operators told the IAB what network management tools were missing. RFC 4084 Internet Connectivity Terminology for Describing Internet Connectivity A shared vocabulary so that 'Internet access' tells customers what they are really buying. RFC 4897 Handling Normative References to Standards-Track Documents The 'note and move on' rule: publish now and annotate references to less mature standards-track documents. RFC 5706 Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of New Protocols and Protocol Extensions A checklist of operations and management questions that protocol designers should answer before a protocol ships. RFC 6174 WG Document States Definition of IETF Working Group Document States Tracking the progress of working group Internet-Drafts in the IETF Datatracker. RFC 6256 SDNV Using Self-Delimiting Numeric Values in Protocols Variable-length integer encoding that shrinks with the value, avoiding fixed-size field limits. RFC 8546 Wire Image The Wire Image of a Network Protocol A name for everything a protocol shows to observers on the path, and why it matters as encryption spreads. RFC 8793 CCNx and NDN terms Information-Centric Networking (ICN): Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) and Named Data Networking (NDN) Terminology Terminology for networks where you ask for data by name instead of by address. RFC 9712 IETF Venue Review IETF Meeting Venue Requirements Review The IETF tweaks its meeting venue rules: looser room blocks, a simpler exploratory meeting process and less ad hoc space. RFC 2151 Internet Tools Primer A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools and Utilities A mid-1990s beginner's tour of ping, traceroute, telnet, FTP, Gopher, the Web, mailing lists and how to find RFCs. RFC 4794 RFC 1264 Is Obsolete RFC 1264 Is Obsolete The IETF retires RFC 1264, the extra rules for publishing routing protocols, because they now just get in the way. RFC 414 File Transfer Protocol (FTP) status and further comments A November 1972 status report on ARPANET FTP implementations, with twelve proposed refinements to the protocol. RFC 5540 40 Years of RFCs 40 Years of RFCs The RFC Editor marks the 40th birthday of the RFC series and notes what changed in ten years. RFC 1797 Class A Subnetting Class A Subnet Experiment A temporary experiment that carved class A network 39 into small pieces to flush out buggy routing software. RFC 1178 Naming Computers Choosing a Name for Your Computer Practical advice on picking a computer name that will not confuse people, mailers or you later. RFC 1363 A Proposed Flow Specification A data structure for describing network service requirements RFC 1462 FYI on "What is the Internet?" A 1993 FYI that answers a surprisingly hard question: what exactly is the Internet? RFC 3113 3GPP-IETF Standardization Collaboration How the mobile-standards group 3GPP and the IETF agreed to share drafts, talk to each other and avoid duplicating work. RFC 4663 Bridge MIB transfer Transferring MIB Work from IETF Bridge MIB WG to IEEE 802.1 WG The plan for handing bridge MIB modules from an IETF working group to the IEEE group that designs bridges. RFC 4924 Reflections on Internet Transparency The IAB looks at what blocking, rewriting and steering traffic in the middle does to the Internet's openness. RFC 5434 Considerations for Having a Successful Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Session Practical advice from experience on preparing, running and following up an IETF Birds-of-a-Feather session. RFC 5612 Enterprise Number for Documentation Use A reserved enterprise number, 32473, for use in examples so nobody borrows a real company's number. RFC 5743 Definition of an Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Document Stream The process that lets Internet Research Task Force documents become RFCs with an IRTF label. RFC 9170 Long-Term Viability of Protocol Extension Mechanisms How protocols stay evolvable by regularly using their extension mechanisms. RFC 3061 A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers How to write an Object Identifier, such as 1.3.6.1, as a URN of the form urn:oid:1.3.6.1. RFC 3929 Consensus-Blocked Decisions Alternative Decision Making Processes for Consensus-Blocked Decisions in the IETF Four experimental ways for an IETF working group to break a deadlock when it agrees a choice must be made but not which one. RFC 4633 List suspensions Experiment in Long-Term Suspensions From Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Mailing Lists A time-limited IETF process experiment that lets the IESG try mailing list sanctions between a 30-day suspension and a year-long ban. RFC 5125 Reclassify RFC 3525 Reclassification of RFC 3525 to Historic RFC 3525, the Megaco gateway control protocol, is retired to Historic because the ITU-T kept developing it as H.248.1. RFC 8712 IETF-ISOC relationship The IETF-ISOC Relationship A short summary of how the IETF and the Internet Society work together after the 2018 IASA 2.0 restructuring. RFC 9281 IETF Entities Entities Involved in the IETF Standards Process A who's who of the people and organizations behind the IETF standards process. RFC 3777 NomCom IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees The rulebook for how the IETF picks, confirms and, if needed, removes the members of its IAB and IESG. RFC 659 Announcing additional Telnet options Announcing the new Telnet options from RFC 651 to 658. RFC 1087 Ethics and the Internet Ethics and the Internet IAB statement on responsible use of network resources RFC 4548 NSAP ICP assignments Internet Code Point (ICP) Assignments for NSAP Addresses Hands out the two code points that say whether an IPv4 or an IPv6 address is tucked inside an OSI NSAP address. RFC 247 Proffered set of standard host names Peggy Karp's 1971 rules for building ARPANET host names from a site code and a machine code. RFC 273 More on standard host names A 1971 proposal from the NIC for formal host names plus optional nicknames, to settle the naming argument. RFC 493 Graphics Protocol GRAPHICS PROTOCOL A proposed ARPANET protocol for sending drawing commands as a byte stream to a remote display. RFC 2028 IETF Organizations The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process A who's who of the people and bodies that produce Internet standards, as of 1996. RFC 52 Updated distribution list A July 1970 mailing list of the people who got copies of the early network notes. RFC 70 Note on Padding How to find the end-of-message padding bit in a machine word with a few logical operations and a lookup table. RFC 99 Network Meeting A short 1971 notice about where the Network Working Group would meet next, and how to book rooms. RFC 323 Formation of Network Measurement Group (NMG) Minutes of the 1972 meeting that set up a group to measure the ARPANET and reserved links for test traffic. RFC 387 Some experiences in implementing Network Graphics Protocol Level 0 Implementers of Network Graphics Protocol Level 0 ask how coordinates are encoded and how to handle text strings. RFC 396 Network Graphics Working Group Meeting - Second Iteration Steve Bunch reports feedback on a meeting date and proposes July 16, 1973 for the Network Graphics Working Group. RFC 404 Host Address Changes Involving Rand and ISI A short notice about the RAND IMP removal and the new ISI IMP, with the host addresses that changed. RFC 442 Current flow-control scheme for IMPSYS Vint Cerf's notes on how IMPs reserve buffer space, order messages and acknowledge packets to control traffic. RFC 482 Traffic statistics (February 1973) A monthly tally of how many packets each ARPANET host sent in February 1973. RFC 523 SURVEY is in operation again The SURVEY host-checking program at MIT-DMCG is running again, now every 20 minutes. RFC 538 Traffic statistics (June 1973) BBN's table of how many packets each ARPANET host sent in June 1973. RFC 566 Traffic statistics (August 1973) BBN's table of how many packets each ARPANET host sent in August 1973. RFC 567 Cross Country Network Bandwidth A back-of-envelope count showing one cross-country keystroke costs four packets each way. RFC 580 Note to Protocol Designers and Implementers Jon Postel asks for protocol proposals as on-line documents and flags a Telnet subnegotiation change. RFC 661 Protocol information Jon Postel's November 1974 directory of ARPANET protocols, with contacts, documents and status notes. RFC 1107 Internet Directory Plan Plan for Internet directory services A roadmap for building a unified Internet-wide directory service. RFC 1174 IAB Identifier Policy IAB recommended policy on distributing internet identifier assignment and IAB recommended policy change to internet "connected" status The IAB's advice to spread out the handing-out of network numbers and to stop tying registration to "connected" status. RFC 1308 Executive Introduction to Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol Why a global directory built on X.500 would improve how people find each other on the Internet RFC 1588 White Pages Meeting Report A meeting report on Internet directory services for finding people RFC 1790 An Agreement between the Internet Society and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the Matter of ONC RPC and XDR Protocols The legal agreement that let Sun's ONC RPC and XDR specifications enter the IETF standards process. RFC 1822 A Grant of Rights to Use a Specific IBM patent with Photuris A public record of IBM's patent license for key management RFC 3131 3GPP2-IETF Standardization Collaboration How the mobile standards group 3GPP2 and the IETF agreed to share drafts, contacts and meetings. RFC 3439 Some Internet Architectural Guidelines and Philosophy Why keeping backbone networks simple matters more than squeezing out features, layers and optimizations. RFC 3724 The Rise of the Middle and the Future of End-to-End: Reflections on the Evolution of the Internet Architecture An IAB essay on how the end-to-end principle grew, what pressures it, and why it still matters. RFC 4101 Writing Protocol Models Writing Protocol Models A short guide to writing the big-picture overview that lets reviewers grasp a protocol before wading into its details. RFC 4521 LDAP extension guide Considerations for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Extensions Design advice for anyone adding new operations, schema or other features to LDAP. RFC 4714 IETF publication reqs Requirements for IETF Technical Publication Service What the IETF wants from the organization that publishes its technical specifications. RFC 4841 RFC 4181 Update to Recognize the IETF Trust A one-line fix to the MIB authoring guidelines so copyright notices name the IETF Trust. RFC 4907 Architectural Implications of Link Indications How the link layer can safely tell higher layers about connection quality RFC 4948 IAB Unwanted Traffic Report from the IAB workshop on Unwanted Traffic March 9-10, 2006 What operators, vendors and researchers told the IAB about spam, DDoS and the money behind unwanted traffic. RFC 5632 Comcast P4P trial Comcast's ISP Experiences in a Proactive Network Provider Participation for P2P (P4P) Technical Trial Results from Comcast's trial of P4P iTrackers to optimize peer-to-peer file sharing. RFC 6574 Smart Object Workshop Report from the Smart Object Workshop Report from a 2011 workshop on connecting tiny, battery-powered devices to the internet. RFC 7254 GSMA IMEI URN A Uniform Resource Name Namespace for the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) and the International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI) A standard name for identifying mobile phones as web-addressable resources. RFC 7475 Increasing the Number of Area Directors in an IETF Area Lets the IETF define an Area as managed by one or more Area Directors instead of one or two. RFC 7754 Technical Considerations for Internet Service Blocking and Filtering Technical trade-offs and consequences of blocking and filtering Internet services. RFC 7957 DISPATCH-Style WGs DISPATCH-Style Working Groups and the SIP Change Process Untying the SIP change process from one IETF area, and sharing the DISPATCH way of sorting new work. RFC 8067 Updating When Standards Track Documents May Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level Makes it optional, though still strongly recommended, to flag downward references in an IETF Last Call. RFC 8170 Planning for Protocol Adoption and Subsequent Transitions Principles for smooth transitions between network protocols RFC 8805 IP geolocation feeds A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds A plain CSV file where a network operator tells everyone roughly where its IP address ranges are located. RFC 9282 RFC Series Change Responsibility Change for the RFC Series One deleted sentence in RFC 2026 to match a change in who is responsible for the RFC Series. RFC 9283 IAB Charter Update IAB Charter Update for RFC Editor Model A small edit to the IAB Charter so it matches version 3 of the RFC Editor Model. RFC 2664 FYI Q&A FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly Asked "New Internet User" Questions A plain-language Q and A that explains the Internet to ordinary new users in 1999. RFC 30 NWG Conventions Documentation Conventions The early rules for writing and circulating Network Working Group notes: be timely, not polished. RFC 39 Comments on Protocol Re: NWG/RFC #36 RAND's suggested additions to the early host-to-host protocol: errors, queries, termination and broadcast. RFC 67 Proposed Change to Host/IMP Spec to Eliminate Marking BBN proposes sending the host/IMP message leader and text as two consecutive messages to end marking problems. RFC 357 Remote Echoing Echoing strategy for satellite links A proposal to hide satellite delay by letting the user's TELNET echo typed characters under server control. RFC 501 Un-muddling "free file transfer" Ken Pogran separates access control, authentication and accounting to critique the free file transfer idea in RFC 487. RFC 3427 SIP change process Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) The IETF's gatekeeping rules for extending SIP, including the "P-" header escape hatch. RFC 3979 IETF IPR Policy Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology The 2005 rules requiring IETF participants to disclose patents and other IPR that cover technology under discussion. RFC 2223 Instructions to RFC Authors The 1997 rulebook for how to format an RFC and how the RFC Editor handles submissions. RFC 7437 IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees The rulebook for how the IETF picks, confirms and, if needed, removes the people who lead its standards work. RFC 800 Request For Comments summary notes: 700-799 An annotated index to 100 RFCs from the early internet era, 1980-1982. RFC 1118 Hitchhiker's Guide Hitchhikers Guide to the Internet A 1989 newcomer's orientation to the Internet: who runs it, where to find information, and how to avoid causing trouble. RFC 1175 Internetworking Reading FYI on where to start: A bibliography of internetworking information A curated reading list for people starting out with computer networking. RFC 1207 FYI Q/A (Experienced) FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "experienced Internet user" questions Common questions and answers from experienced Internet users covering infrastructure, DNS, and protocols. RFC 1216 Gigabit network economics and paradigm shifts An April 1st spoof that proposes Ultra Low Speed networking as the answer to gigabit hype. RFC 1217 Slow Commotion Research Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) An April 1st reply proposing networks designed to be as slow and unreliable as possible. RFC 1309 Technical Overview of Directory Services Using the X.500 Protocol A distributed directory standard for finding people and resources globally. RFC 1326 Mutual Encapsulation Considered Dangerous How nested protocol wrapping can cause runaway packet growth. RFC 1355 Privacy and Accuracy Issues in Network Information Center Databases Guidelines for public network directories to protect privacy and ensure accuracy RFC 1396 POISED The Process for Organization of Internet Standards Working Group (POISED) How a 1992 working group reworked the way IETF and IAB leaders are chosen and how standards decisions are made. RFC 1463 FYI on Introducing the Internet-- A Short Bibliography of Introductory Internetworking Readings A curated reading list for Internet newcomers. RFC 1560 The MultiProtocol Internet The IAB's strawman position on protocol standardization and coexistence RFC 1727 A Vision of an Integrated Internet Information Service A blueprint for unifying fragmented internet information services RFC 1736 URL requirements Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators The minimum list of properties a resource address must have to work across the whole Internet. RFC 1796 Not All RFCs are Standards Not All RFCs are Standards Publishing a document as an RFC does not make it an Internet Standard. RFC 1855 Netiquette Netiquette Guidelines A short, bulleted rulebook of good manners for email, mailing lists, Usenet and early Internet services. RFC 1879 Class A Subnet Results Class A Subnet Experiment Results and Recommendations What happened when part of a Class A network was carved into subnets, and what routers needed to cope. RFC 1988 HP Patent Grant Conditional Grant of Rights to Specific Hewlett-Packard Patents In Conjunction With the Internet Engineering Task Force's Internet-Standard Network Management Framework Hewlett-Packard promises not to sue over two patents when used in IETF standards-track MIB modules. RFC 2339 An Agreement Between the Internet Society, the IETF, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the matter of NFS V.4 Protocols The agreement that let the IETF take Sun's NFS specifications and develop NFS version 4. RFC 2549 Avian Carriers QoS IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service Extending IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service mechanisms RFC 2795 IMPS The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) A humorous protocol suite for managing infinite monkeys at typewriters RFC 3386 Multilayer survivability Network Hierarchy and Multilayer Survivability A design team's list of what service providers needed for recovering from failures across network layers and areas. RFC 3978 IETF Contribution Rights IETF Rights in Contributions The 2005 rules for what rights people give the IETF when they submit a draft, and what they keep. RFC 4440 IAB view on the IRTF IAB Thoughts on the Role of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) The Internet Architecture Board's perspective on the role of long-term Internet research. RFC 4845 Process for Publication of IAB RFCs How the Internet Architecture Board gets its own documents reviewed and published as RFCs. RFC 4981 P2P Search Survey Survey of Research towards Robust Peer-to-Peer Networks: Search Methods An overview of research on peer-to-peer search methods and their robustness. RFC 5594 Report from the IETF Workshop on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Infrastructure, May 28, 2008 Analysis of P2P congestion issues and proposed standardization paths from an IETF workshop. RFC 5694 Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Architecture: Definition, Taxonomies, Examples, and Applicability What counts as peer-to-peer, how P2P systems are classified, and when the architecture is a good choice. RFC 5704 Uncoordinated Protocol Development Considered Harmful Why standards bodies must coordinate when developing shared protocols. RFC 6175 Datatracker Requirements Requirements to Extend the Datatracker for IETF Working Group Chairs and Authors Features needed for IETF working group chairs to track draft document status in the Datatracker. RFC 6701 IETF IPR Sanctions Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy The menu of penalties the IETF can apply to people who break its patent disclosure rules, and who chooses them. RFC 6778 Mail archive reqs Requirements for Archiving IETF Email Lists and for Providing Web-Based Browsing and Searching What the IETF wanted from a better system for archiving, browsing and searching its mailing lists. RFC 7282 Rough Consensus On Consensus and Humming in the IETF Why the IETF decides by open issues rather than by votes, and what humming is really for. RFC 7297 IP Connectivity Provisioning Profile (CPP) A template for specifying IP and MPLS connectivity service requirements. RFC 7305 Report from the IAB Workshop on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition (ITAT) Workshop report examining how internet protocols succeed or fail to be adopted. RFC 7576 Autonomic Gap Analysis General Gap Analysis for Autonomic Networking What networks still need to manage themselves automatically RFC 8137 IEEE 802.15.4 Information Element for the IETF A reserved slot in 802.15.4 for IETF-defined protocols. RFC 8240 IoTSU Workshop Report Report from the Internet of Things Software Update (IoTSU) Workshop 2016 Expert findings on securely updating software on small networked devices. RFC 8464 MEID URN A URN Namespace for Device Identity and Mobile Equipment Identity (MEID) Standardized web format for unique cell phone IDs RFC 8700 Fifty years of RFCs Fifty Years of RFCs The RFC Series turns fifty: personal histories of how it began and was run, and questions about its next fifty years. RFC 8890 The Internet is for End Users Why the Internet's technical standards should prioritize ordinary users RFC 9064 QoS for ICN Considerations in the Development of a QoS Architecture for CCNx-Like Information-Centric Networking Protocols Adapting quality of service to Information-Centric Networking's unique architecture. RFC 9217 Current Open Questions in Path-Aware Networking Research questions about letting endpoints see and choose network paths RFC 9315 Intent-Based Networking Intent-Based Networking - Concepts and Definitions What intent means in network management and how it simplifies operations RFC 9414 Unfortunate History of Transient Numeric Identifiers How poor identifier design caused security failures for three decades RFC 9415 On the Generation of Transient Numeric Identifiers How to generate unpredictable identifiers safely for different protocol needs RFC 8126 IANA Considerations Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs How to write an IANA Considerations section and choose the rules for handing out protocol numbers and names. RFC 4234 ABNF Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF A compact notation that Internet specifications use to write down exactly what valid text looks like. RFC 87 Topic for Discussion at the Next Network Working Group Meeting Planning a network graphics meeting for the early internet community. RFC 100 Categorization and guide to NWG/RFCs The first guide to the early Network Working Group notes: nine categories, what is current, and what to read first. RFC 164 Minutes of Network Working Group meeting, 5/16 through 5/19/71 Record of the May 1971 Network Working Group meeting where the early internet community coordinated development. RFC 328 Suggested Telnet Protocol Changes A 1972 proposal to trim three features from the Telnet protocol, to be adopted unless people objected. RFC 333 Proposed experiment with a Message Switching Protocol An alternative network architecture using message switching instead of streams RFC 369 Evaluation of ARPANET services January-March, 1972 A UCSB graduate seminar tries the early ARPANET as ordinary users and reports what went wrong. RFC 377 Using TSO via ARPA Network Virtual Terminal How to reach IBM TSO at UCLA-CCN over the ARPANET using a plain Telnet connection. RFC 430 FTP Comments on File Transfer Protocol Notes from a January 1973 UCLA meeting on FTP: server-to-server transfers, type encoding and site-specific parameters. RFC 435 Telnet Telnet issues Two BBN engineers propose letting either end of a Telnet connection suggest who echoes typed characters, and sketch bigger ideas on top. RFC 438 FTP FTP server-server interaction A 1973 proposal to let two FTP servers exchange a file directly, steered by a third program. RFC 448 FTP Print files in FTP Why FTP's print file type was confusing, and two ways to reconcile it with the Remote Job Entry protocol. RFC 459 Network questionnaires A Lincoln Laboratory author complains that ARPANET sites are drowning in questionnaires, and the NCP survey was the last straw. RFC 487 FTP Free file transfer A 1973 proposal that FTP servers let anyone fetch publicly marked files without a user name and password. RFC 492 Response to RFC 467 A 1973 reply to a proposed fix for stuck ARPANET connections, arguing the real problem is lost messages. RFC 512 More on lost message detection Wayne Hathaway proposes a Sequence Control Byte in the host message leader so a receiving NCP can spot lost messages at once. RFC 516 Lost message detection Jon Postel offers three ways for a host to notice that the network has lost a message. RFC 530 Report on the Survey Project Regular monitoring of ARPANET host availability RFC 531 Feast or famine? A response to two recent RFC's about network information Too much information is asked for, yet newcomers cannot find any. The Resource Notebook is the answer. RFC 692 Comments on IMP/Host Protocol changes (RFCs 687 and 690) A 1975 note arguing that a 104-bit IMP leader is better than changing every host's protocol leader. RFC 3716 IETF in the Large: Administration and Execution How the IETF's leadership and supporting organizations work together. RFC 200 RFC list by number A 1971 index of the first 200 RFCs, listing author, title, date and NIC number for each. RFC 1602 The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2 The IAB and IESG write down how a protocol becomes an Internet Standard, who decides, and how long it takes. RFC 4844 RFC Series The RFC Series and RFC Editor The IAB's framework for who runs the RFC Series, who approves documents, and how the rules can change. RFC 760 IP (DoD) DoD Standard Internet Protocol The DoD Standard Internet Protocol specification from 1980, the predecessor to modern IP. RFC 1060 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers The March 1990 edition of the Internet's master list of protocol numbers, ports, addresses and names. RFC 1700 Assigned Numbers Assigned Numbers A 1994 snapshot of the big registry of protocol numbers: IP protocol numbers, ports, ICMP types, ARP codes and much more. RFC 4288 Media type registration Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures The rules for naming, describing and registering media types such as text/plain with IANA. RFC 62 Systems for Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network A 1970 proposal for process-to-process messaging with SEND and RECEIVE, ports and a rendezvous site. RFC 154 Exposition Style A one-paragraph note on how to write a piecewise function so that nobody can misread it. RFC 236 Standard host names Jon Postel's revised list of standard ARPANET host names, with a short four-character alternate for each. RFC 359 Status of the Release of the New IMP System (2600) A June 1972 progress report on repeated attempts to switch the ARPANET to the new IMP system, release 2600. RFC 391 Traffic statistics (August 1972) A one-page table of ARPANET traffic for August 1972, host by host, sent out by BBN. RFC 431 Update on SMFS Login and Logout Two commands that let a user identify themselves and an account to UCSB's Simple Minded File System. RFC 847 Summary of Smallberg surveys A table of how many hosts answered Telnet, FTP and mail server probes in early 1983. RFC 9139 ICN over LoWPAN Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Adaptation to Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPANs) Squeezing content-based networking into the tiniest wireless devices. RFC 9531 CCNx path steering Path Steering in Content-Centric Networking (CCNx) and Named Data Networking (NDN) Discover and reuse specific network paths in Information-Centric Networking. RFC 10 Documentation conventions The rules for writing and sharing Network Working Group notes: write anything, keep it timely, and send it around. RFC 1336 Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members A 1992 collection of self-written biographies from the people serving on the IAB, IESG and IRSG. RFC 1402 Gold in the Networks There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places A 1993 field guide to where the useful files, catalogs, directories and services lived on the Internet, and how to reach them. RFC 1703 TPC.INT paging Principles of Operation for the TPC.INT Subdomain: Radio Paging -- Technical Procedures How to send a radio page by email, using a pager's telephone number turned into a tpc.int domain name. RFC 1758 NADF standing documents NADF Standing Documents: A Brief Overview A table of contents for the thirteen standing documents that let competing providers run one public X.500 directory. RFC 1941 FAQ for Schools Frequently Asked Questions for Schools A 1996 plain-language Internet primer for teachers and school administrators, written as questions and answers. RFC 3352 CLDAP to Historic Connection-less Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) to Historic Status Why the connection-less flavour of LDAP never caught on, and why RFC 1798 was retired to Historic. RFC 5385 Word RFC Template Version 2.0 Microsoft Word Template for Creating Internet Drafts and RFCs A Microsoft Word template and post-processing script for writing Internet Drafts and RFCs with what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing. RFC 6254 RFC 2754 to Historic Request to Move RFC 2754 to Historic Status IANA is told not to sign routing registry objects as RFC 2754 requested, and that RFC moves to Historic. RFC 6360 Conclusion of FYI RFC Sub-Series The IESG formally closes the FYI series of informational RFCs and retires the rules that created it. RFC 6393 Moving RFC 4693 to Historic A short housekeeping memo that retires RFC 4693, the IETF Operational Notes experiment, to Historic. RFC 8458 Using National Bibliography Numbers as Uniform Resource Names How national library identifiers are written as persistent, globally unique URNs, with the namespace brought up to date. RFC 8721 Trust rights advice Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to Be Granted in IETF Documents What the IETF wants the IETF Trust to let people do with RFCs and other IETF documents. RFC 9592 Retiring the Tao of the IETF The IETF stops maintaining its newcomer guide as an RFC-era document and explains why. RFC 9896 SVG in RFCs SVG in RFCs The policy for including SVG drawings in RFCs, leaving the tooling details to the RFC Production Center. RFC 3683 A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists How the IETF can remove a disruptive person's right to post to its mailing lists. RFC 3066 Language Tags Tags for the Identification of Languages How short tags such as en or en-US label the language of content, and how new tags get registered. RFC 3552 Security Considerations Guide Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations A tutorial on security terms and attacks, plus the rules for writing a Security Considerations section in an RFC. RFC 9280 RFC Editor Model v3 RFC Editor Model (Version 3) Who writes the rules for the RFC Series, who approves them, and who publishes the documents. RFC 7235 HTTP Authentication Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication The challenge-response authentication framework for HTTP RFC 1340 Assigned Numbers Assigned Numbers The 1992 master list of protocol numbers, port numbers, multicast groups and other values that Internet protocols agree on. RFC 3005 IETF Discussion List Charter The rules for what belongs on the general IETF discussion mailing list. RFC 3272 Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering A framework for measuring, modeling and steering traffic so IP networks use their capacity well and avoid congestion. RFC 5 DEL Decode Encode Language (DEL) A 1969 working paper on shipping small programs across the ARPA network so remote users get instant feedback. RFC 40 More Comments on the Forthcoming Protocol Feedback on three protocol features: error messages, queries, and host status RFC 44 Comments on NWG/RFC 33 and 36 SDC suggests simplifying reconnection, splitting CLOSE in two, and settling padding, echoing and a common code. RFC 46 ARPA Network protocol notes Proposal for a simple, extensible host-to-host protocol with socket-based communication RFC 53 Official protocol mechanism Steve Crocker sets out a six-step process for proposing, reviewing and approving the official Host-Host protocol. RFC 55 Prototypical implementation of the NCP A worked example, in prose, of how a host's Network Control Program could be built. RFC 57 Thoughts and Reflections on NWG/RFC 54 Harvard proposes typed error codes, a separate overflow command and a reset handshake for crashed hosts. RFC 63 Belated Network Meeting Report A meeting report from the early network working group RFC 78 NCP Status Report: UCSB/Rand A status report from UCSB and RAND sites on their network implementation RFC 93 ICP Initial Connection Protocol A clarification to the Initial Connection Protocol: the 32-bit number is preceded by a data type code of zero. RFC 106 User/Server Site Protocol Network Host Questionnaire A 1971 questionnaire asking every ARPANET host how its terminals and character handling work, to inform Telnet. RFC 131 Response to RFC 116: May NWG meeting Rand's May 1971 status report: updating its 360/65 software, building a test logger, and views on how the NWG should work. RFC 234 Network Working Group meeting schedule The timetable for an October 1971 Network Working Group meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts. RFC 322 Well-Known Sockets Well known socket numbers UCLA asks every host to report which sockets are already taken by standard services. RFC 338 EBCDIC/ASCII Mapping for Network RJE Character translation rules when ASCII terminals use an EBCDIC mainframe system RFC 346 Satellite Considerations A 1972 warning that satellite links would add large delay to the ARPANET and strain interactive use. RFC 348 Discard Discard Process Hosts are invited to run a process that throws away all data it receives, for debugging and measurement. RFC 418 Server File Transfer Under TSS/360 At NASA-Ames Research Center How NASA Ames implemented an ARPANET file transfer server on IBM TSS/360, with comments on the protocol. RFC 422 Traffic statistics (November 1972) Packet counts for every ARPANET host in November 1972. RFC 436 Announcement of RJS at UCSB A January 1973 notice that UCSB now offered a Remote Job Entry server, with login rules and supported commands. RFC 451 Tentative proposal for a Unified User Level Protocol A proposal to unify network protocols through a single Telnet connection. RFC 455 Traffic statistics (January 1973) BBN's January 1973 count of packets sent by each ARPANET host, split into traffic between nodes and within a node. RFC 473 MIX and MIXAL? A one-paragraph query asking whether any ARPANET host offers an interpreter and assembler for Knuth's MIX computer. RFC 479 FTP Use of FTP by the NIC Journal How the Network Information Center would use FTP commands for journal submission and delivery. RFC 485 MIX and MIXAL at UCSB A UCSB student reports a MIXAL assembler in SNOBOL4 and a partly debugged MIX simulator. RFC 494 Availability of MIX and MIXAL in the Network A summary of replies on where Knuth's MIX computer and its MIXAL assembler could be used on the ARPANET. RFC 505 FTP Two solutions to a file transfer access problem Two ways to send a file to someone without knowing their password. RFC 513 Telnet Comments on the new Telnet specifications A reader praises the new Telnet specifications, then lists the spots he thinks should change. RFC 519 Resource Evaluation A UCSB group of novices tries out ARPANET resources and proposes concise user manuals. RFC 522 Traffic Statistics (May 1973) BBN's May 1973 count of packets sent by each ARPANET Host, split into internode and intranode traffic. RFC 529 Telnet Note on protocol synch sequences Why the Telnet SYNCH sequence is fine, and why higher-level protocols should build their own. RFC 556 Traffic Statistics (July 1973) BBN's July 1973 count of packets sent by each ARPANET Host, split into internode and intranode traffic. RFC 660 Some changes to the IMP and the IMP/Host interface Four planned changes to the ARPANET IMP software and the IMP/Host interface, announced by BBN in October 1974. RFC 674 Procedure call documents: Version 2 An announcement of version 2 of the Procedure Call Protocol document set used by the National Software Works. RFC 696 Comments on the IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol changes Vinton Cerf compares ARPANET host-IMP protocol changes with a proposed international packet header. RFC 1818 BCP Series Best Current Practices The memo that created the Best Current Practice (BCP) series of IESG-endorsed RFCs. RFC 5785 Well-Known URIs Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) One reserved path prefix, /.well-known/, so sites can publish site-wide metadata without name collisions. RFC 66 NIC - third level ideas and other noise Notes from a 1970 meeting on how to reach a remote host's logger and a standard network console. RFC 35 Network Meeting Announcement of a 1970 network protocol meeting at UCLA RFC 899 Request For Comments summary notes: 800-899 An annotated index to 100 RFCs from 1982-1984, a period of rapid internet growth. RFC 1121 Act One Poems Act one - the poems A collection of poems celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ARPANET. RFC 1135 Internet Worm Helminthiasis of the Internet A comprehensive look at the 1988 Internet worm incident and its aftermath RFC 1193 Client requirements for real-time communication services What applications need from networks to deliver live audio, video, and time-sensitive data RFC 1221 HAP v2 Host Access Protocol (HAP) specification: Version 2 The network-layer protocol hosts used to reach the Terrestrial Wideband Network, with datagrams, guaranteed streams and multicast groups. RFC 1262 Guidelines for Internet Measurement Activities Guidance for researchers planning experiments on the Internet. RFC 1300 Remembrances of Things Past Remembrances of Things Past A poem of puns on computing and networking words, remembering when they meant something else. RFC 1303 A Convention for Describing SNMP-based Agents A macro that lets an SNMP agent publish exactly which MIB groups it supports and how it deviates from them. RFC 1306 Experiences Supporting By-Request Circuit-Switched T3 Networks Connecting supercomputers with on-demand high-speed circuits RFC 1324 A Discussion on Computer Network Conferencing Defining standards for online real-time chat and conferencing RFC 1359 Connecting to the Internet - What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate A 1992 checklist for institutions deciding whether and how to connect their campus to the Internet. RFC 1432 Recent Internet Books A guide to books about the Internet and its networks as of 1993. RFC 1580 Guide to Network Resource Tools A 1994 guide to network tools for exploring and sharing Internet resources. RFC 1640 POISED The Process for Organization of Internet Standards Working Group (POISED) Redesigning how the Internet standards community makes decisions. RFC 1671 IPng Transition IPng White Paper on Transition and Other Considerations Key requirements for switching from IPv4 to the next-generation Internet protocol. RFC 1677 Tactical Radio Frequency Communication Requirements for IPng Requirements for military radio networks to support the next Internet Protocol RFC 1679 HPN Working Group Input to the IPng Requirements Solicitation Naval requirements for the new Internet protocol generation. RFC 1686 IPng cable TV view IPng Requirements: A Cable Television Industry Viewpoint Requirements for the next-generation IP from the cable television industry perspective. RFC 1689 Networked info retrieval A Status Report on Networked Information Retrieval: Tools and Groups A 1994 snapshot of the tools, people and groups behind finding information on the early Internet. RFC 1698 OSI upper layers Octet Sequences for Upper-Layer OSI to Support Basic Communications Applications The exact byte sequences for basic OSI communications over Session, Presentation, and ACSE. RFC 1705 TCPng Six Virtual Inches to the Left: The Problem with IPng A proposal to make TCP and UDP protocol-independent by adding a transport layer address. RFC 1709 K-12 networking K-12 Internetworking Guidelines A 1994 planning guide for connecting schools, districts and counties to the Internet with TCP/IP. RFC 1728 Resource transponders Resource Transponders Automatic agents that keep resource directories up to date when files move. RFC 1761 Snoop capture format Snoop Version 2 Packet Capture File Format How Sun's snoop tool stores captured network packets on disk, so other programs can read and write the same files. RFC 1821 Integration of Real-time Services in an IP-ATM Network Architecture Bridging two different approaches to reserving network resources for real-time traffic. RFC 1862 Report of the IAB Workshop on Internet Information Infrastructure, October 12-14, 1994 Report from IAB workshop on Internet information architecture and infrastructure RFC 2100 The Naming of Hosts A humorous meditation on the challenge of naming computers RFC 2235 Hobbes' Internet Timeline A year-by-year timeline of Internet history from 1957 to 1997, with growth tables for hosts, the Web and Usenet. RFC 2325 Coffee MIB Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2 An April 1st joke: SNMP objects for monitoring a drip coffee pot, complete with pot type, level and temperature. RFC 2360 Guide for Internet Standards Writers A checklist of habits that make a protocol specification clear enough for separate teams to build interoperable implementations. RFC 2438 Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track How the IESG decides whether a MIB specification has been implemented enough to move up the standards track. RFC 2691 ICANN PSO MoU A Memorandum of Understanding for an ICANN Protocol Support Organization The signed agreement that created ICANN's Protocol Support Organization RFC 2956 Overview of 1999 IAB Network Layer Workshop A workshop report on the future of the Internet's core delivery layer. RFC 3002 Overview of 2000 IAB Wireless Internetworking Workshop Internet experts discuss challenges for wireless networks. RFC 3026 Liaison to IETF/ISOC on ENUM A letter from an ITU-T working party on who supplies telephone-number data for DNS-based ENUM. RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo" An April 1st exploration of the mysterious origins of metasyntactic variables foo, bar, and foobar. RFC 3349 BEEP transient prefix A Transient Prefix for Identifying Profiles under Development by the Working Groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force How IETF working groups name BEEP profiles while they are still drafts, before IANA hands out a permanent identifier. RFC 3426 General Architectural and Policy Considerations A checklist of architectural questions for IETF protocol designers. RFC 3541 Web3D URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Web3D Consortium (Web3D) A permanent name registry for 3D web documents and resources. RFC 3669 WG IPR Guidelines Guidelines for Working Groups on Intellectual Property Issues Case studies and rules of thumb to help IETF working groups decide what to do about patents and other IPR claims. RFC 3718 A Summary of Unicode Consortium Procedures, Policies, Stability, and Public Access How the Unicode Consortium decides what characters exist RFC 3774 IETF Problem Statement An analysis of problems in IETF structure and processes from the community's own feedback. RFC 4144 How to Gain Prominence and Influence in Standards Organizations Simple guidelines for gaining prominence and influence in standards organizations RFC 4358 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) A namespace for the Open Mobile Alliance to uniquely name mobile specifications and resources. RFC 4691 IETF liaison guidelines Guidelines for Acting as an IETF Liaison to Another Organization Guidelines for people who speak on behalf of the IETF to other standards organizations. RFC 4858 Document Shepherding from Working Group Last Call to Publication Delegating document oversight to the working group level speeds up IETF publication RFC 5249 Templates for Internet-Drafts Containing MIB Modules Three ready-made templates that help authors write Internet-Drafts containing MIB modules. RFC 5615 H.248/MEGACO Registration Procedures How new H.248/MEGACO packages, error codes, reasons and profile names get reviewed before IANA records them. RFC 6067 BCP 47 Extension U Extending language tags with Unicode locale data RFC 6322 Datatracker States and Annotations for the IAB, IRTF, and Independent Submission Streams Tracking drafts from the IAB, IRTF, and independent authors through to publication as RFCs. RFC 6385 Gen-ART General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) Experiences How a volunteer review team helps ensure IETF documents are ready for publication. RFC 6433 WG milestones tool Requirements for a Working Group Milestones Tool What IETF chairs and Area Directors would need from a tool that creates and updates working group milestones. RFC 6462 Report from the Internet Privacy Workshop How the Internet community approaches privacy in technical standards. RFC 6771 Bar BOF Considerations for Having a Successful "Bar BOF" Side Meeting Advice for running unofficial IETF side meetings that actually help develop new work. RFC 6921 FTL Communication Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication An April 1st exploration of internet protocols for faster-than-light communication. RFC 6924 Registration of Second-Level URN Namespaces under "ietf" A single IANA registry that lists every sub-namespace of the IETF URN namespace. RFC 7127 Characterization of Proposed Standards Updates how the IETF describes a Proposed Standard: stable, well reviewed and ready to deploy. RFC 7168 HTCPCP-TEA The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA) An April 1st joke extension that teaches networked coffee pots to brew tea. RFC 7354 Update to the Registrant Information for the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace A short update that swaps in new contact details for the registered dvb URN namespace. RFC 7418 An IRTF Primer for IETF Participants Understanding how research groups differ from engineering groups RFC 7491 PCE ABNO A PCE-Based Architecture for Application-Based Network Operations Architecture for applications to request on-demand network resources and services RFC 7669 Assigning Digital Object Identifiers to RFCs Persistent identifiers for RFCs in scholarly publishing RFC 7687 STRINT Workshop Report Report from the Strengthening the Internet (STRINT) Workshop How to strengthen the Internet against mass surveillance RFC 7933 ICN Video Streaming Adaptive Video Streaming over Information-Centric Networking (ICN) How video streaming protocols must adapt to work over Information-Centric Networks. RFC 7962 Alternative Networks Alternative Network Deployments: Taxonomy, Characterization, Technologies, and Architectures How communities and organizations build their own Internet infrastructure. RFC 7980 A Framework for Defining Network Complexity Understanding and measuring complexity in network design. RFC 7998 "xml2rfc" Version 3 Preparation Tool Description What the xml2rfc v3 prep tool does to an author's XML before it becomes an Internet-Draft or an RFC. RFC 8073 CARIS Workshop Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale (CARIS) Workshop Report Report on coordinating attack response at Internet scale RFC 8153 Digital Preservation Considerations for the RFC Series How to preserve RFCs as digital technology changes. RFC 8165 Design Considerations for Metadata Insertion Why endpoints should add metadata themselves instead of letting intermediaries do it. RFC 8369 IPv6 Unicode Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode Using 128-bit Unicode code points for IPv6 addresses RFC 8465 Using the Mobile Equipment Identity (MEID) URN as an Instance ID Using mobile device IDs as unique identifiers in SIP networks. RFC 8592 KPI Stamping NSH Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Stamping for the Network Service Header (NSH) Monitoring latency and quality of service in service function chains. RFC 8743 MAMS Multiple Access Management Services Multi-Access Management Services (MAMS) Framework for intelligent path selection when devices have multiple network connections RFC 8789 IETF rough consensus IETF Stream Documents Require IETF Rough Consensus A one-rule process change: the IETF must not publish IETF Stream RFCs without rough consensus. RFC 8874 GitHub Guidelines Working Group GitHub Usage Guidance Best practices for IETF working groups using GitHub for standards development. RFC 8875 WG GitHub Admin Working Group GitHub Administration Conventions for IETF working groups using GitHub to manage their work. RFC 8962 Protocol Police Establishing the Protocol Police An April Fools establishment of a secret police force to enforce protocol compliance. RFC 9137 Cancelling IETF Meetings Considerations for Cancellation of IETF Meetings How the IETF decides whether to move, virtualize, postpone or cancel an in-person meeting when events get in the way. RFC 9138 ICN Name Resolution Design Considerations for Name Resolution Service in Information-Centric Networking (ICN) How to translate persistent data names into network locations in Information-Centric Networking. RFC 9311 IETF Hackathons Running an IETF Hackathon Practical guide to organizing collaborative code events RFC 9340 Architectural Principles for a Quantum Internet A framework for networks that distribute quantum entanglement between distant nodes. RFC 9413 Maintaining Robust Protocols Evolving specifications and implementations to preserve long-term protocol interoperability. RFC 9501 Open participation Open Participation Principle regarding Remote Registration Fee The IETF principle that every meeting must offer a free way to take part remotely. RFC 9518 Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards What role can standards play in resisting the concentration of Internet control? RFC 9620 HRPC guidelines Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations A questionnaire for protocol designers on how their technical choices can help or harm human rights on the Internet. RFC 1010 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers The official registry of Internet protocol numbers, ports, and addresses. RFC 5741 RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates How RFC documents are labeled and what their front matter means. RFC 3864 Header Registration Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields How message header field names for mail, HTTP and netnews get recorded in IANA registries. RFC 6890 Special-Purpose IPs Special-Purpose IP Address Registries One common table format for every IPv4 and IPv6 address block set aside for a special purpose. RFC 4371 BCP 101 Update for IPR Trust A short update to BCP 101 saying the new IETF Trust, not the Internet Society, owns and licenses IETF intellectual property. RFC 1603 IETF WG Guidelines IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures The 1994 rulebook for how IETF working groups are formed, run, and wound down. RFC 990 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers The November 1986 edition of the Internet's master list of assigned protocol numbers, ports and addresses. RFC 2727 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees The rulebook for how the Internet's standards leaders are picked, confirmed and, if needed, recalled. RFC 3668 IETF IPR rules Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology The rules for telling the IETF about patents and other rights that may cover a proposed technology. RFC 3932 The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: Procedures How the IETF's leadership reviews documents submitted for independent RFC publication. RFC 7996 SVG RFC SVG Drawings for RFCs: SVG 1.2 RFC A black-and-white, no-frills subset of SVG for line drawings in RFCs. RFC 1543 Instructions to RFC Authors A 1993 style guide telling authors how to format, label and submit an RFC. RFC 214 Network checkpoint A 1971 status table of which ARPANET hosts had passed basic protocol checks. RFC 384 Official site idents for organizations in the ARPA Network The August 1972 official list of site names and address numbers for organizations on the ARPA Network. RFC 423 UCLA Campus Computing Network Liaison Staff for ARPANET A December 1972 who-to-call list for UCLA Campus Computing Network staff serving ARPANET users. RFC 476 IMP/TIP memory retrofit schedule (rev 2) A dated list of when each ARPANET IMP and TIP would get its extra core memory in early 1973. RFC 704 IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol change A 1975 plan to widen the IMP-to-host protocol so the ARPANET could address hosts on more than 63 IMPs. RFC 774 Internet Protocol Handbook: Table of contents A draft contents list for a planned binder of the main Internet protocol documents. RFC 1039 DoD statement on Open Systems Interconnection protocols A US Defense Department memo that let OSI protocols stand beside the DoD protocols as experimental co-standards. RFC 1307 DSLCP Dynamically Switched Link Control Protocol Protocol for a host to control circuit-switched network links. RFC 6919 Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels An April 1st spoof that adds nine hedging phrases to the RFC 2119 requirement words. RFC 9507 ICN Traceroute Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Traceroute Protocol Specification Discover paths through name-based networks the way traceroute maps IP networks. RFC 9508 ICN Ping Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Ping Protocol Specification Test reachability and measure latency in name-based networks. RFC 687 IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol changes A 1975 sketch of how the IMP/host protocol would grow past 63 IMPs while staying backward compatible. RFC 3667 IETF Rights in Contributions The IETF's rulebook for what rights authors give away, and keep, when they submit a document. RFC 3934 Updates to RFC 2418 Regarding the Management of IETF Mailing Lists Lets IETF working group chairs suspend a disruptive person's list posting for up to 30 days. RFC 1111 RFC Author Guide Request for comments on Request for Comments: Instructions to RFC authors Instructions for writing RFCs in consistent formats. RFC 6635 RFC Editor Model v2 RFC Editor Model (Version 2) Dividing RFC Series responsibilities among three entities RFC 8711 IASA 2.0 Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity, Version 2.0 How the IETF's money, staff and legal home are organised under the IETF LLC and its Board. RFC 1310 Standards Process The Internet Standards Process How Internet protocols evolve from proposals to official standards. RFC 1601 Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) How the Internet Architecture Board is composed, selected, and organized. RFC 4748 RFC 3978 Update to Recognize the IETF Trust Shifts IETF copyright management to a new trust organization RFC 9141 Updating References to the IETF FTP Service Replaces dead ftp:// links to the IETF FTP service in older RFCs with HTTPS links to the same material. RFC 1594 FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions A 1994 beginner's FAQ for the Internet: what it is, where documents live, which services exist and how to use them. RFC 1325 FYI on Questions and Answers Answers to Commonly asked "New Internet User" Questions A guide for new Internet users answering frequently asked questions RFC 5620 RFC Editor model v1 RFC Editor Model (Version 1) Organizing the RFC editing, publishing and series management into four specialized roles. RFC 3000 Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of Internet protocol standards as of October 2001. RFC 5742 IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions How the IESG reviews documents from outside the main IETF track RFC 2 Host software A 1969 outline of host software for the ARPANET: control, primary and auxiliary links, error checking and monitor functions. RFC 4 Network timetable A project schedule for connecting Stanford Research Institute to the new ARPANET. RFC 7 Host-IMP interface A 1969 sketch of the two programs that move a host computer's messages to and from its IMP. RFC 9 Host Software The host-to-host dialogue of the early ARPANET: logical links, a link-opening exchange, service calls and tables. RFC 23 Transmission of Multiple Control Messages Send multiple control messages together instead of one at a time. RFC 28 Time Standards A one-paragraph request from SRI: how accurate should a network-wide clock be? RFC 37 Network Meeting Epilogue, etc Notes from an early network protocol design meeting in 1970 RFC 38 Comments on Network Protocol from NWG/RFC #36 Comments on the proposed ARPANET host-to-host protocol protocol multiplexing problem. RFC 47 BBN's Comments on NWG/RFC #33 BBN's engineer explains why an IMP's buffers must stay empty, and why hosts should do the buffering. RFC 48 Possible protocol plateau Settling on core protocol design choices for the early network. RFC 49 Conversations with S. Crocker (UCLA) Informal notes on discussions with Steve Crocker about the proposed NCP protocol RFC 65 Comments on Host/Host Protocol document #1 Comments on the early host-to-host protocol specification. RFC 69 Distribution List Change for MIT A one-line administrative note: swap one name on the MIT distribution list for another. RFC 77 Network meeting report A report on the November 1970 network research meetings at the FJCC in Houston. RFC 108 Attendance list at the Urbana NWG meeting, February 17-19, 1971 The sign-in sheet for the February 1971 Network Working Group meeting at Urbana, grouped by site. RFC 112 User/Server Site Protocol: Network Host Questionnaire A 1971 chart of how ARPANET sites handled terminals, gathered to help the people designing TELNET. RFC 115 Some Network Information Center policies on handling documents How the Network Information Center numbered, cataloged and revised documents for the early ARPANET community. RFC 124 Typographical error in RFC 107 A one-line 1971 correction: a command on page 7 of RFC 107 should be STR, not RTS. RFC 130 Response to RFC 111: Pressure from the chairman Rand answers a 1971 request for implementation schedules and explains why it is waiting for a TELNET specification. RFC 134 Network Graphics meeting The 1971 invitation to a three-day Network Graphics Meeting hosted by Project MAC at MIT. RFC 149 Best Laid Plans A schedule change for the May 1971 Network Working Group meeting. RFC 156 Status of the Illinois site: Response to RFC 116 A one-paragraph status report on the University of Illinois ARPA Network connection in April 1971. RFC 208 Address tables Network address directory for ARPANET sites RFC 215 NCP, ICP, and Telnet: The Terminal IMP implementation How Terminal IMP implemented network protocols with severe memory constraints RFC 225 Rand/UCSB network graphics experiment A progress report on connecting Rand graphics consoles over the ARPANET to UCSB's On-Line System. RFC 227 Data transfer rates (Rand/UCLA) Measured file transfer rates between Rand and UCLA in 1971, and the reasons they were slow. RFC 231 Service center standards for remote usage: A user's view Making network services easy to use by following common rules. RFC 246 Network Graphics meeting Dates and location for the next computer graphics meeting RFC 280 A Draft of Host Names A draft of official names and addresses for ARPANET computers RFC 302 Exercising The ARPANET UCSB plans a classroom test of how well newcomers can learn to use ARPANET server sites. RFC 325 NETRJS Network Remote Job Entry program - NETRJS A program for sending compute jobs across the ARPANET to a remote supercomputer. RFC 347 Echo Echo process Hosts are invited to run a process that sends received data straight back, for debugging and measurement. RFC 355 Response to NWG/RFC 346 Solutions for handling long communication delays from satellite connections. RFC 364 Serving remote users on the ARPANET Guidelines for supporting users accessing computer systems over the ARPANET. RFC 365 TIP Users Letter Letter to All TIP Users BBN tells TIP users about new commands, buffer limits, echo changes and where to report problems. RFC 371 ICCC Demo Demonstration at International Computer Communications Conference Plans for the ARPANET demonstration at the International Computer Communications Conference. RFC 376 Network Host Status A weekly health check of ARPANET hosts, with a table of which ones answered a test connection. RFC 379 Using TSO at CCN A guide to accessing IBM TSO at UCLA CCN over the ARPANET. RFC 388 NCP statistics UCLA offers to collect daily NCP traffic counts from each ARPANET host over socket 241. RFC 392 Measurement of host costs for transmitting network data Utah measures how much host CPU time it costs to push data onto the ARPANET, and finds it surprisingly high. RFC 398 UCSB Online Graphics Directory of socket addresses for UCSB online graphics services RFC 400 Traffic Statistics (September 1972) Monthly statistics on ARPANET packet traffic. RFC 401 Conversion of NGP-0 Coordinates to Device Specific Coordinates How to turn Network Graphics Protocol coordinates into whole-number screen positions with a shift, a multiply and an add. RFC 405 Correction to RFC 404 A one-number fix: the ISI IMP is address 22, not 86 as RFC 404 said. RFC 406 Scheduled IMP Software Releases BBN's reminder that IMPs may be reloaded on Tuesday mornings, and how hosts get warned. RFC 413 Traffic statistics (October 1972) Packet counts for every ARPANET host in October 1972, plus the ICCC tryout and demonstration days. RFC 415 Tenex bandwidth Measurement of TENEX host bandwidth over ARPANET RFC 426 Reconnection Protocol Moving a connection from one host to another without losing the session RFC 440 Scheduled network software maintenance Extending the ARPANET's weekly software update window from one to two hours. RFC 449 Current flow-control scheme for IMPSYS A short BBN note saying RFC 442 on IMP flow control is mostly accurate but points to better official sources. RFC 460 NCP survey UCLA's questionnaire asking ARPANET sites how they built their Network Control Programs. RFC 462 Responding to user needs Organizing help for new ARPANET users through a distributed information database. RFC 464 Resource notebook framework A 1973 plan to make the Network Information Center the single coordinator of surveys about network resources. RFC 468 FTP FTP data compression A data compression scheme for efficient large file transfers in FTP RFC 474 Announcement of NGWG meeting: Call for papers A short 1973 notice that the Network Graphics Working Group might meet in Illinois in May. RFC 477 Remote Job Service at UCSB Complete documentation of UCSB's implementation of remote job submission over the network. RFC 491 What is "Free"? Padlipsky argues that free network mail does not have to mean no login, and proposes USER NETML. RFC 514 Network make-work A TX-2 engineer protests the pile of information requests landing on small ARPANET sites. RFC 520 Memo to FTP group: Proposal for File Access Protocol A proposed extension to FTP that reads and writes parts of remote files instead of whole ones. RFC 525 MIT-MATHLAB meets UCSB-OLS -an example of resource sharing An experiment linking symbolic math and numeric computation systems over the ARPANET. RFC 533 Message-ID numbers BBN widens the IMP/Host link field by four bits so messages can be told apart. RFC 534 Lost message detection The extra message-id bits from RFC 533 can serve as a sequence number for spotting lost messages. RFC 552 Single access to standard protocols One login for all network services instead of a separate entry point for each. RFC 553 Draft design for a text/graphics protocol A unified protocol for text and graphics over the network RFC 568 Response to RFC 567 - cross country network bandwidth BBN corrects the packet-size arithmetic in a claim about remote echo and cross-country bandwidth. RFC 582 Comments on RFC 580: Machine readable protocols A short objection to requiring protocol documents to be written as NLS files. RFC 586 Traffic statistics (October 1973) A monthly table of how many packets each ARPANET Host sent in October 1973. RFC 601 Traffic statistics (November 1973) A snapshot of ARPANET traffic volume across all hosts in November 1973 RFC 613 Network connectivity: A response to RFC 603 A reply arguing that what matters is how well the ARPANET stays connected after a node fails. RFC 619 Mean round-trip times in the ARPANET Measurements of message delays across the ARPANET from August and December 1973 RFC 628 Status of RFC numbers and a note on pre-assigned journal numbers Announcement of changes to where and how RFC numbers were assigned on the network RFC 663 Lost message detection and recovery protocol Detecting lost messages in ARPANET and recovering with retransmission RFC 672 Multi-site data collection facility Protocol for collecting data reliably from multiple distributed servers RFC 678 Standard file formats Standard file formats for document interchange across different systems RFC 684 Commentary on procedure calling as a network protocol An early argument that distributed systems should be built on message passing, not remote procedure calls. RFC 694 Protocol information Jon Postel's June 1975 directory of ARPANET protocols, their documents, contacts and latest news. RFC 707 High-level framework for network-based resource sharing A unified protocol for network resource sharing programs RFC 871 Perspective on the ARPANET reference model Explaining the architectural principles behind ARPANET and TCP/IP. RFC 874 X.25 critique Critique of X.25 Identifying fundamental design flaws in a widely adopted network interface. RFC 902 ARPA Internet Protocol policy How the Internet research community adopted official protocol standards. RFC 980 Protocol document order information A guide to obtaining protocol standards documents for the DARPA research community. RFC 1077 Critical issues in high bandwidth networking Research agenda for gigabit-speed networks and high-bandwidth applications RFC 2282 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees The rulebook for electing Internet standards leaders. RFC 3160 Tao of IETF The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force A practical guide to understanding IETF meetings, working groups, and the Internet standards process. RFC 3356 IETF/ITU-T collaboration Internet Engineering Task Force and International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunications Standardization Sector Collaboration Guidelines How two major standards organizations coordinate their work on overlapping topics. RFC 4677 Tao of the IETF The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force A guide to how the IETF works, its meetings, and the standards process RFC 6123 PCE Manageability Inclusion of Manageability Sections in Path Computation Element (PCE) Working Group Drafts A historic guide asking PCE working group drafts to say how their protocols will be operated and managed. RFC 7729 ForCES FE Management Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Logical Functional Block (LFB) Subsidiary Management A ForCES building block that lets a control element configure the forwarding element itself: its CEs, its LFB classes and its debug logging. RFC 1417 NADF NADF Standing Documents: A Brief Overview A short guide to the document series that let competing providers run one public X.500 directory. RFC 2978 Charset Registration IANA Charset Registration Procedures The rules and review steps for getting a character set name and number added to the IANA charset registry. RFC 7120 Early Allocation Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points How a draft can get IANA code points reserved before it becomes an RFC, without early implementers guessing values. RFC 943 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers A registry of numbers and addresses used in Internet protocols. RFC 1100 IAB Standards List IAB official protocol standards The IAB's framework for standardizing Internet protocols RFC 1140 IAB Standards List IAB official protocol standards Updated listing of Internet protocol standardization status RFC 8717 IASA 2.0 terminology IETF Administrative Support Activity 2.0: Consolidated Updates to IETF Administrative Terminology How IASA 2.0 reorganized IETF's administrative structure and what changed in the terminology RFC 1392 Internet Users' Glossary An alphabetical dictionary of Internet and networking terms for newcomers. RFC 5633 NomCom early notice Nominating Committee Process: Earlier Announcement of Open Positions and Solicitation of Volunteers Announce open positions before the committee chair is named RFC 5680 The Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees Allows the IETF Nominating Committee to disclose the list of volunteers willing to serve in leadership positions. RFC 6859 Update to RFC 3777 to Clarify Nominating Committee Eligibility of IETF Leadership Clarify who cannot volunteer for the IETF nominating committee RFC 8318 IAOC Advisor for NomCom IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: IAOC Advisor for the Nominating Committee Advising the Nominating Committee about IETF administration RFC 8788 2020 NomCom eligibility Eligibility for the 2020-2021 Nominating Committee Emergency interpretation of Nominating Committee eligibility rules when IETF 107 was cancelled. RFC 1206 FYI Q/A (New Users) FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "new Internet user" questions Frequently asked questions about the Internet for newcomers. RFC 8728 RFC Editor model v2 RFC Editor Model (Version 2) How the RFC Editor is organized into specialized roles and oversight. RFC 790 Assigned numbers Updated registry of network and protocol identifiers for the growing ARPA Internet. RFC 675 TCP Original Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program The December 1974 blueprint for a program that carries reliable, ordered conversations between processes across linked networks. RFC 4622 XMPP IRIs and URIs Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) URLs and internationalized links for instant messaging and presence systems RFC 4053 Liaison Statements Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETF How the IETF receives, tracks, answers and sends official letters to other standards bodies. RFC 758 Assigned numbers Registry of numbers assigned for use in internet protocols and networks RFC 960 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers Updated registry of protocol numbers, addresses, ports, and network identifiers as of December 1985 RFC 1292 A Catalog of Available X.500 Implementations A reference list of X.500 directory software implementations and their capabilities. RFC 1295 User Bill of Rights for entries and listings in the Public Directory Rights for people listed in public directories RFC 1358 Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) The founding rules of the Internet technical advisory board. RFC 5377 Advice to the Trustees of the IETF Trust on Rights to Be Granted in IETF Documents Guiding principles for intellectual property rights in IETF documents. RFC 7990 RFC Format Framework Transitioning RFCs from plain text ASCII to XML for richer publishing. RFC 226 Standardization of host mnemonics A 1971 proposal to give every Telnet program the same short names for network hosts. RFC 6722 Tao of the IETF Publishing the "Tao of the IETF" as a Web Page Moving the Tao of the IETF from RFCs to a live web page RFC 2200 Official Protocols List Internet Official Protocol Standards How Internet protocols move through stages to become standards. RFC 6557 Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database Who looks after the Time Zone Database, how changes get made, and how a new maintainer is chosen. RFC 7249 Internet Numbers Registries The official registries that track Internet address space allocations. RFC 7299 Object Identifier Registry for the PKIX Working Group A registry of object identifiers allocated to the PKIX Working Group. RFC 11 Implementation of the Host - Host Software Procedures in GORDO Host-to-host communication implementation for the GORDO operating system RFC 1150 FYI Introduction FYI on FYI: Introduction to the FYI Notes Introducing the FYI (For Your Information) notes as a new RFC subseries. RFC 900 Assigned Numbers Assigned Numbers Official registry of protocol numbers, port assignments, and network identifiers RFC 923 Assigned Numbers Assigned numbers Registry of assigned values for Internet protocols and network addresses RFC 991 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols The 1986 reference for official Internet protocols and their status. RFC 1020 Internet Numbers Internet numbers The official record of assigned IP networks and autonomous system numbers. RFC 1540 Internet Official Protocol Standards The authoritative guide to Internet protocol standardization RFC 1780 Official Standards list Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's map of protocol standardization status. RFC 1920 Official Protocol Stds Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's inventory of protocol standardization status. RFC 2300 Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's periodic snapshot of which protocols are standards. RFC 2600 Official Standards List Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of which Internet protocols had official status as of March 2000. RFC 5000 Protocol Standards Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of internet standards as of February 2008 RFC 3936 Procedures for Modifying the Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP) The rulebook for who may change RSVP and how new message types, object classes and error codes get their numbers. RFC 6309 IANA Rules for MIKEY (Multimedia Internet KEYing) Loosens the sign-up rules for the MIKEY key-management protocol's IANA registries, so new values need less ceremony. RFC 1714 RWhois Referral Whois Protocol (RWhois) A distributed system for looking up network and domain registration information RFC 2777 Publicly Verifiable Nomcom Random Selection A fair, publicly verifiable way to select committee members at random. RFC 3184 IETF Guidelines for Conduct Rules for respectful and productive interaction in the IETF. RFC 5078 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Revision of the Nominating and Recall Committees Timeline A revised calendar for how the IETF picks its leaders. RFC 739 Assigned numbers A registry of protocol numbers and reserved network addresses RFC 1539 Tao of IETF The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force A newcomer's guide to understanding the IETF and attending its meetings. RFC 1718 Tao of IETF The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force An updated guide for newcomers to the IETF meetings and organization. RFC 4775 Procedures for Protocol Extensions and Variations Guidance for vendors and other standards bodies on when and how to get IETF review before extending an IETF protocol. RFC 6548 Independent Submission Editor Model The role and responsibilities of the Independent Submission Editor for RFCs RFC 6648 X- Prefix Deprecation Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols Why new protocol parameters should stop being named with an X- prefix, and what to do instead. RFC 3 Documentation conventions The original ground rules for sharing ideas quickly over the network RFC 1871 IETF Variance Procedure Addendum to RFC 1602 -- Variance Procedure An escape clause when IETF procedures hit a deadlock RFC 255 Status of network hosts ARPANET host status for October 12-22, 1971, showing stable availability. RFC 267 Network Host Status ARPANET host status for November 8-19, 1971, noting new users and servers. RFC 343 IMP System change notification News about a failed software upgrade and the plan to try again. RFC 503 Socket number list How network programs find each other using socket numbers RFC 604 Assigned link numbers Assigning link numbers for ARPANET protocol connections RFC 750 Assigned numbers A comprehensive registry of all numbers assigned in early network protocols RFC 755 Assigned numbers Updated registry of assigned numbers for network protocols in 1979 RFC 770 Assigned numbers A registry of network and protocol identifiers assigned in the early Internet. RFC 870 Assigned numbers The early registry of assigned network numbers, protocol identifiers, and port numbers RFC 924 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols for connecting personal computers to the Internet The official Internet protocols catalog for 1984. RFC 944 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols The 1985 update to the official Internet protocols catalog. RFC 961 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols A status report on the official Internet protocols and their implementation status in late 1985. RFC 999 RFC Notes 900-999 Requests For Comments summary notes: 900-999 An annotated summary of the contents of RFCs 900 through 999, serving as a reference guide to a hundred RFCs. RFC 1062 Internet Numbers Internet numbers The official registry of IP network numbers and autonomous system numbers in use on the Internet. RFC 1280 IAB Protocol Standards IAB Official Protocol Standards The IAB's official list of Internet protocol standards and their status. RFC 1360 IAB Standards IAB Official Protocol Standards The official status and maturity of Internet protocols RFC 1500 Internet Standards Internet Official Protocol Standards The authoritative registry of Internet protocol standards and their status. RFC 1800 Official Standards List Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's periodic snapshot of which protocols are official standards. RFC 2000 Official Standards List Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of protocol standardization status in early 1997 RFC 2400 Internet Official Protocol Standards The Internet Architecture Board's updated list of Internet protocol standards for late 1998. RFC 2700 Internet Official Protocol Standards The IETF's snapshot of which protocols were standards in 2000. RFC 2900 Internet Official Protocol Standards The IETF's snapshot of standards and best practices as of summer 2001. RFC 1251 Who's Who in the Internet: Biographies of IAB, IESG and IRSG Members Biographies of the Internet's leadership in 1991. RFC 1290 There's Gold in them thar Networks! or Searching for Treasure in all the Wrong Places A practical guide to finding information and resources on the early Internet. RFC 1366 Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space Guidelines for fairly allocating IP addresses to regions and organizations. RFC 1578 FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly Asked "Primary and Secondary School Internet User" Questions A Q&A guide for schools connecting to the Internet RFC 2027 IAB/IESG Selection IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees How the IETF community selects and recalls its leaders RFC 2031 IETF-ISOC Relationship IETF-ISOC relationship Defining the division of responsibilities between the IETF and the Internet Society. RFC 3536 Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF A glossary of terms for discussing internationalization in IETF standards work RFC 399 SMFS SMFS Login and Logout Authentication and accounting for UCSB file access RFC 997 Internet Numbers Internet numbers A status report of Internet network numbers and autonomous system assignments as of March 1987. RFC 1849 Son of 1036 "Son of 1036": News Article Format and Transmission The format and procedures for network news articles, a de facto standard before official adoption. RFC 8536 TZif The Time Zone Information Format (TZif) Binary file format for representing time zone information and rules. RFC 2434 IANA Considerations Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs How protocol specifications should document the rules for managing IANA registries. RFC 211 ARPA Network Mailing Lists Three distribution lists for sending RFCs and documents across the ARPANET RFC 240 Site Status A corrected ARPANET host status report from September 1971. RFC 252 Network host status ARPANET host status report for October 1971, noting new servers. RFC 266 Network host status Daily status of ARPANET hosts from October 26 to November 5, 1971 RFC 287 Status of Network Hosts Network host status report for December 6 to 18, 1971 RFC 300 ARPA Network mailing lists Updated distribution lists for sending RFCs to ARPANET participants RFC 315 Network Host Status A snapshot of which ARPANET computers were working in mid-February 1972. RFC 367 Network host status A snapshot of which ARPANET computers were working in mid-July 1972. RFC 433 Socket number list Well-known socket numbers that early ARPANET computers agreed to use for standard services. RFC 447 IMP/TIP memory retrofit schedule A schedule for upgrading the network's IMP and TIP memory RFC 762 Assigned numbers The assigned-numbers registry for internet protocols in January 1980 RFC 820 Assigned numbers A registry of the numbers needed for Internet protocol implementations. RFC 880 Official protocols A 1983 catalog of the Internet protocols in use, with their status and known issues. RFC 901 Official Protocols Official ARPA-Internet protocols Status report of the protocols used in the ARPA-Internet with specifications and implementation notes RFC 1410 IAB protocol standards IAB Official Protocol Standards The standardization process and maturity levels for Internet protocols as of 1993. RFC 1600 Internet Standards 1994 Internet Official Protocol Standards The official record of Internet protocol standards and their standardization status. RFC 1610 Internet protocol standards Internet Official Protocol Standards The standardization process and maturity levels for Internet protocols as of 1994. RFC 1880 Official Standards List Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of protocol standardization status in late 1995 RFC 2500 Protocol Standards Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of which Internet protocols were standards, experimental, or historic as of June 1999 RFC 2800 Internet Official Protocol Standards The IETF's snapshot of which protocols were standards in 2001. RFC 3300 Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of Internet protocol standards as of October 2002. RFC 3600 Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of official Internet protocols and standards from 2003 RFC 3700 STD 1 Internet Official Protocol Standards A snapshot of official Internet protocol standards as of July 2004. RFC 5226 IANA Considerations Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs Guidelines for writing the part of an RFC that tells IANA how to manage numbered registries. RFC 96 An Interactive Network Experiment to Study Modes of Access the Network Information Center An early experiment on remote access to networked information systems RFC 699 Request For Comments summary notes: 600-699 A 1982 index of the hundredth batch of RFCs RFC 1012 Bibliography of Request For Comments 1 through 999 A complete bibliographic guide to nearly a thousand Internet memos from the first two decades. RFC 1099 RFC Summary 1000-1099 Request for Comments Summary: RFC Numbers 1000-1099 A catalog of RFCs 1000 through 1099, summarizing each document's purpose and scope. RFC 1127 Host Reqs Perspective Perspective on the Host Requirements RFCs Behind-the-scenes insights into the development of comprehensive Internet host standards. RFC 1152 High-Speed Workshop Workshop report: Internet research steering group workshop on very-high-speed networks Research insights on protocols, applications, and technologies for gigabit-speed networks RFC 1167 NREN Thoughts Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network A vision for a U.S. national research and education network. RFC 1169 GOSIP Role Explaining the role of GOSIP Clarifying how the U.S. government's OSI profile relates to Internet evolution. RFC 1173 Oral Tradition Responsibilities of host and network managers: A summary of the "oral tradition" of the Internet Unwritten rules for keeping the Internet running RFC 1181 RIPE Terms of Reference RIPE Terms of Reference Charter of the European IP networks coordination body RFC 1192 Commercialization of the Internet summary report A 1990 workshop report on commercializing Internet infrastructure RFC 1197 Using ODA for translating multimedia information Lessons from using ISO ODA for multimedia document exchange RFC 1199 Request for Comments Summary Notes: 1100-1199 An annotated guide to 100 RFCs documenting the standards and developments of the early Internet. RFC 1210 Network and infrastructure user requirements for transatlantic research collaboration: Brussels, July 16-18, and Washington July 24-25, 1990 What networking and infrastructure scientists need for research collaboration across the Atlantic. RFC 1257 Isochronous applications do not require jitter-controlled networks Networks that control delay and bandwidth are enough for live audio and video. RFC 1259 Building the open road: The NREN as test-bed for the national public network A vision for the NREN as a model for the national digital network RFC 1261 Transition of Nic Services The Network Information Center moved to a new organization in October 1991. RFC 1273 Measurement Study of Changes in Service-Level Reachability in the Global TCP/IP Internet: Goals, Experimental Design, Implementation, and Policy Considerations A longitudinal study tracking which Internet services sites are willing to run. RFC 1291 Mid-Level Networks Potential Technical Services Technical services mid-level networks should offer to strengthen the Internet's hierarchy. RFC 1296 Internet Growth (1981-1991) Measuring how the Internet grew from 213 hosts in 1981 to over 700,000 in 1992 RFC 1299 Summary of 1200-1299 A catalog of 100 RFCs covering the Internet protocols from 1991-1992 RFC 1302 Building a Network Information Services Infrastructure A blueprint for Internet help desks and information centers RFC 1313 Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio A lighthearted programming schedule for an imaginary Internet-based radio station. RFC 1330 Recommendations for the Phase I Deployment of OSI Directory Services (X.500) and OSI Message Handling Services (X.400) within the ESNET Community ESnet's guide to deploying global directory and mail services using OSI standards. RFC 1335 A Two-Tier Address Structure for the Internet: A Solution to the Problem of Address Space Exhaustion A two-tier scheme to stretch the 32-bit IP address space by separating global and private addresses. RFC 1365 An IP Address Extension Proposal Using IP options to extend addresses without breaking backward compatibility RFC 1373 Portable DUAs How to set up programs that access the X.500 directory RFC 1375 Suggestion for New Classes of IP Addresses Adding smaller IP address sizes to reduce waste RFC 1394 Relationship of Telex Answerback Codes to Internet Domains A reference mapping of country telex codes to Internet domains RFC 1399 Summary of 1300-1399 An index of 100 RFCs documenting the Internet standards process and protocols RFC 1400 Transition and Modernization of the Internet Registration Service Moving Internet registration services to a new organization RFC 1438 SOBs Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs) A humorous proposal for a new RFC category to express collective boredom with nothing. RFC 1439 The Uniqueness of Unique Identifiers Making sure every person's account name is truly unique. RFC 1498 On the Naming and Binding of Network Destinations A framework for understanding how networks name and locate destinations RFC 1499 Summary of 1400-1499 A reference guide to one hundred RFCs spanning networking, standards, and management. RFC 1501 OS/2 User Group Asking internet users: would you join an OS/2 user group? RFC 1527 What Should We Plan Given the Dilemma of the Network? A 1993 policy analysis of what the U.S. Congress should decide about the network RFC 1599 Summary of 1500-1599 Annotated summary and index of RFC numbers 1500 through 1599. RFC 1605 SONNET SONET to Sonnet Translation An April 1st spoof: compressing SONET frames into English sonnets RFC 1606 A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9 A humorous future history of an imaginary IP Version 9 RFC 1607 A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY Letters from the year 2023, imagining how the Internet evolved RFC 1667 DIS for IPng Modeling and Simulation Requirements for IPng Real-time, multicast, and reliability needs for military simulations. RFC 1669 Market Viability as a IPng Criteria Assessing whether IPng can win in the market against IPv4 RFC 1670 Input to IPng Engineering Considerations Breaking IPng decisions into manageable parts, informed by DECnet transition experience. RFC 1672 Accounting Requirements for IPng Embedding cost tracking in every packet to simplify billing and resource management. RFC 1673 Electric Power Research Institute Comments on IPng The electric power industry's view: unified standards for the information superhighway. RFC 1674 A Cellular Industry View of IPng Wireless carrier networks want mobility, scalability, and reliable accounting built into IPng. RFC 1676 INFN Requirements for an IPng A research network's priorities: solve address space and routing in parallel, not separately. RFC 1678 Corporate IPng Needs IPng Requirements of Large Corporate Networks Business requirements for the next-generation Internet protocol from large enterprises. RFC 1680 IPng Support for ATM Services Making a new Internet protocol work efficiently on fast ATM networks. RFC 1681 On Many Addresses per Host Why and how hosts can use many IP addresses at once. RFC 1682 IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis Engineering analysis of how to add a new Internet protocol to BSD operating systems. RFC 1683 Multiprotocol Interoperability In IPng How to design a network protocol that works alongside others RFC 1687 Corporate view of IPng A Large Corporate User's View of IPng What large corporations need from the next-generation internet protocol RFC 1688 IPng mobility IPng Mobility Considerations Design criteria for mobile hosts in the next-generation internet protocol RFC 1690 IEPG Introducing the Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG) A forum for Internet service operators to coordinate operations. RFC 1699 RFC summary 1600-1699 Summary of 1600-1699 An annotated index of 100 RFCs published between 1994 and 1997, organized by number with abstracts. RFC 1708 NTP PICS NTP PICS PROFORMA - For the Network Time Protocol Version 3 A checklist form for NTP implementations to declare supported features RFC 1719 A Direction for IPng How to organize the effort to pick the next version of IP RFC 1726 IPng criteria Technical Criteria for Choosing IP The Next Generation (IPng) Technical requirements and evaluation criteria for the next generation of IP RFC 1729 Z39.50 usage Using the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol How libraries' search systems work together over the Internet. RFC 1744 Observations on the Management of the Internet Address Space An early analysis of how IPv4 address allocation policies might shape the Internet when addresses run out. RFC 1746 Ways to Define User Expectations A framework for understanding the fundamentals of user agreements and acceptable use policies on the Internet. RFC 1754 IP over ATM requirements IP over ATM Working Group's Recommendations for the ATM Forum's Multiprotocol BOF Version 1 IETF recommendations for the ATM Forum's work on connecting IP networks with ATM. RFC 1775 To Be "On" the Internet Four ways users connect to and participate in the Internet. RFC 1776 IPng address joke The Address is the Message An April Fools' joke about absurdly large IP addresses. RFC 1799 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1700-1799 A reference guide to Internet standards and protocols from RFCs 1700–1799. RFC 1882 12 Days of Technology The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas A Christmas carol about network and database disasters RFC 1899 RFC Summary 1800-1899 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1800-1899 An index of 100 RFC documents covering the decade's worth of Internet work. RFC 1931 Dynamic RARP Dynamic RARP Extensions for Automatic Network Address Acquisition Extensions to RARP for automatic IP address acquisition during system installation. RFC 1934 Ascend MP+ Ascend's Multilink Protocol Plus (MP+) Adding session management to bundled network links RFC 1935 What is the Internet? What is the Internet, Anyway? Defining the Internet by its interactive services and boundaries RFC 1999 RFC Summary 1900-1999 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 1900-1999 A guide to 100 RFCs covering network protocols, services, and technologies. RFC 2007 Training Catalogue Catalogue of Network Training Materials A guide to quality network training materials for Internet educators and users. RFC 2057 Source Directed Access Control on the Internet Why content filtering by the sender is technically impractical on the Internet RFC 2099 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2000-2099 An index of the 100 RFCs published in 1996-1997. RFC 2134 Articles of Incorporation of Internet Society The legal articles that established the Internet Society as a non-profit organization RFC 2135 Internet Society By-Laws The governance rules of the Internet Society as of June 1996. RFC 2150 Humanities and Arts: Sharing Center Stage on the Internet A guide to the Internet for artists, writers, and humanities scholars. RFC 2199 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2100-2199 A guide to the 100 RFCs published in the 2100–2199 range. RFC 2299 Request for Comments Summary A snapshot of 100 RFCs from January 1999 with their status and abstracts. RFC 2321 RITA RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent A humorous and tongue-in-cheek approach to network troubleshooting RFC 2322 peg-dhcp Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp A humorous protocol for handing out IP addresses using wooden clothespegs RFC 2399 Request for Comments Summary A catalog of 100 standards and protocols from 1998, with notes on each. RFC 2441 Working with Jon, Tribute delivered at UCLA, October 30, 1998 A personal tribute to Jon Postel, the Internet's custodian and visionary editor. RFC 2499 Request for Comments Summary A reference index and summary of 100 RFCs published between 2400 and 2499. RFC 2550 Y10K Y10K and Beyond A humorous proposal to solve the year 10,000 date crisis. RFC 2551 The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III A humorous parody of the IETF standards process reimagined as ancient Roman governance. RFC 2599 RFC Index 2500-2599 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2500-2599 A reference guide to 100 technical standards and protocols published between 1999 and 2000 RFC 2690 ICANN PSO Proposal A Proposal for an MOU-Based ICANN Protocol Support Organization A proposal for how protocol standards organizations should advise ICANN RFC 2699 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2600-2699 A summary of one hundred RFCs published in a specific time period. RFC 2768 Network Policy and Services: A Report of a Workshop on Middleware Report on middleware requirements and architecture for advanced network applications. RFC 2799 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2700-2799 An index and brief summary of 100 RFCs covering a span of Internet standards. RFC 2899 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2800-2899 An index and summary of 100 RFCs published between RFC 2800 and RFC 2899. RFC 2999 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2900-2999 A reference guide to 100 RFCs from 2900 to 2999 RFC 3043 The Network Solutions Personal Internet Name (PIN): A URN Namespace for People and Organizations A persistent name for people and organizations that survives email and domain changes. RFC 3091 PIgen Pi Digit Generation Protocol An April 1st joke proposing a network service to stream digits of pi on demand. RFC 3093 FEP Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) An April 1st satire on bypassing firewalls by tunneling TCP/IP traffic inside HTTP. RFC 3099 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3000-3099 An index and guide to RFCs published from 3000 through 3099 RFC 3109 Request to Move STD 39 to Historic Status Retiring a 1970s ARPANET host-to-switch interface standard that is no longer in use. RFC 3117 BXXP On the Design of Application Protocols Design principles for building generic application protocols that handle asynchronous message exchange. RFC 3130 DNSSEC Notes Notes from the State-Of-The-Technology: DNSSEC Status update on security extensions for the DNS system. RFC 3166 Request to Move RFC 1403 to Historic Status Retiring an unused BGP and OSPF interaction specification. RFC 3167 Request to Move RFC 1745 to Historic Status Retiring a BGP4 and IDRP protocol specification that was never deployed. RFC 3199 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3100-3199 A directory of the hundred RFCs published in 2001-2003. RFC 3245 The History and Context of Telephone Number Mapping (ENUM) Operational Decisions: Informational Documents Contributed to ITU-T Study Group 2 (SG2) Why ENUM uses one domain, .ARPA, and RIPE NCC RFC 3251 MPLampS Electricity over IP An April 1st joke about carrying electricity through the Internet. RFC 3254 Definitions for talking about directories A shared vocabulary for describing information access systems RFC 3271 The Internet is for Everyone The Internet Society's call for universal, inclusive access to the global network. RFC 3299 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3200-3299 A catalog and brief summary of all RFCs numbered 3200 through 3299. RFC 3387 SMRG QoS considerations Considerations from the Service Management Research Group (SMRG) on Quality of Service (QoS) in the IP Network How IP network management must change when networks provide differentiated service levels RFC 3499 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3400-3499 A summary and index of the one hundred RFCs numbered 3400 through 3499 with brief descriptions of each. RFC 3599 Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3500-3599 Annotated summary of RFCs 3500 through 3599, with brief descriptions of each. RFC 3675 .sex Considered Dangerous Why a special domain for adult content would not work RFC 3751 Omniscience Protocol Requirements An April 1st satire: requirements for a protocol that would let enforcers know what a user intends. RFC 3844 IETF Problem Resolution IETF Problem Resolution Process How the IETF analyzed and began to fix its organizational problems RFC 3869 IAB Research Concerns IAB Concerns and Recommendations Regarding Internet Research and Evolution A call for sustained, non-commercial funding to evolve the Internet. RFC 3905 Patent Disclosure Form A Template for IETF Patent Disclosures and Licensing Declarations A standard form for disclosing patents that affect IETF standards. RFC 3930 The Protocol versus Document Points of View in Computer Protocols Why protocol design and document design require different approaches. RFC 3937 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) Assigning persistent identifiers to news industry standards and resources. RFC 3975 OMA-IETF Standardization Collaboration Framework for coordination between mobile standards (OMA) and Internet standards (IETF). RFC 4152 CLEI URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Common Language Equipment Identifier (CLEI) Code A Uniform Resource Name namespace for equipment identifiers in telecommunications RFC 4179 NCA UCI URN Using Universal Content Identifier (UCI) as Uniform Resource Names (URN) A permanent naming system for Korea's digital content managed by the National Computerization Agency. RFC 4195 TV-Anytime URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the TV-Anytime Forum A stable naming system for TV specifications and documents. RFC 4198 Federated content URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Federated Content A naming scheme for content in loose networks without a central authority. RFC 4228 Requirements for an IETF Draft Submission Toolset A web-based system to streamline submitting Internet-Drafts for review. RFC 4350 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Formal Namespace for the New Zealand Government A persistent naming standard for New Zealand Government documents and data. RFC 4417 IAB Messaging Workshop Report of the 2004 IAB Messaging Workshop Unified messaging challenges and research directions for email, IM, and voice RFC 4445 Media Delivery Index A Proposed Media Delivery Index (MDI) Measures network jitter and loss for streaming media delivery. RFC 4450 Obsolete RFC cleanup Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents The results of reclassifying obsolete Proposed Standards to Historic status. RFC 4603 NAS-Port-Type values Additional Values for the NAS-Port-Type Attribute Additions to RADIUS NAS-Port-Type attribute for PPP tunneling methods RFC 4617 Latvian URN namespace A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Formal Namespace for the Latvian National Government Integration Project A standard way to name and find resources in the Latvian government. RFC 4824 IP over Semaphore Flags The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) Joke protocol for transmitting IP packets using semaphore flags RFC 4840 Multiple Encapsulation Methods Considered Harmful Why link-layer protocols should not support multiple ways to wrap IP packets RFC 4854 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Extensions to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) A permanent naming system for additions to the XMPP messaging protocol RFC 4926 A URN Namespace for GEANT Stable names for resources across European research networks RFC 4965 CableLabs Collaboration CableLabs - IETF Standardization Collaboration How IETF and cable television standards bodies collaborate. RFC 5165 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Permanent, location-independent names for geospatial resources. RFC 5174 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) A standard namespace for naming EBU resources and documents. RFC 5237 IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field Stricter rules for who can get a new Protocol field number RFC 5241 Naming Rights Naming Rights in IETF Protocols Selling ad space in protocol field names (April 1st satire) RFC 5242 Unified Character Code A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections A unified character code combining Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and CJK (April 1st satire) RFC 5279 3GPP URN Namespace A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Permanent names for mobile phone standards documents RFC 5290 Comments on the Usefulness of Simple Best-Effort Traffic Why the Internet's simple, classless approach to traffic is worth keeping RFC 5744 Independent Stream Rights Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC Independent Submission Stream The copyright rules for Independent Submission RFCs: what authors grant, and what readers may do with the text. RFC 6029 A Survey on Research on the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Problem Surveying research approaches to help peer-to-peer applications choose peers more intelligently using network topology knowledge. RFC 6061 Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the National Emergency Number Association (NENA) Reserve the URN prefix 'nena' for the emergency services organization to identify resources. RFC 6288 DGIWG URN URN Namespace for the Defence Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG) A namespace identifier for defence geospatial resources and specifications. RFC 6289 CableLabs URN A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for CableLabs A namespace for identifying cable industry specifications and resources. RFC 6293 Requirements for Internet-Draft Tracking by the IETF Community in the Datatracker Specifications for letting community members track Internet-Drafts and RFCs through their publishing lifecycle. RFC 6301 A Survey of Mobility Support in the Internet Two decades of solutions for keeping mobile devices connected RFC 6328 NLPID IANA Considerations for Network Layer Protocol Identifiers How IANA hands out the one-byte network layer protocol identifiers that ISO/IEC defined and some IETF protocols use. RFC 6338 SCHAC URN Definition of a Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Schema for Academia (SCHAC) A persistent namespace for educational institution vocabulary values RFC 6417 How to Contribute Research Results to Internet Standardization A guide for academic researchers bringing ideas to internet standards RFC 6453 OGF URN namespace A URN Namespace for the Open Grid Forum (OGF) Persistent identifiers for grid computing resources and standards RFC 6497 BCP 47 Extension T BCP 47 Extension T - Transformed Content Language tag extension for specifying the source of transformed content. RFC 6556 Eyeballs Testing Testing Eyeball Happiness How to measure whether apps connect quickly in dual-stack networks. RFC 6588 URN Namespace for ucode A URN Namespace for ucode A name format for identifying real-world objects with tags. RFC 6592 The Null Packet An April 1st RFC humorously defining a packet that contains nothing. RFC 6640 IETF Meeting Attendees' Frequently Asked (Travel) Questions A guidebook for meeting hosts to help travelers find local information RFC 6730 NomCom tool requirements Requirements for IETF Nominations Committee Tools Tools to help the committee that picks IETF leaders work smoothly and securely. RFC 6821 Improving Peer Selection in Peer-to-peer Applications: Myths vs. Reality Testing claims about making peer-to-peer networks faster by preferring local peers. RFC 6852 OpenStand Affirmation of the Modern Paradigm for Standards A joint statement on principles for open, global standards development. RFC 6875 The P2P Network Experiment Council's Activities and Experiments with Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) in Japan How Japan tested ALTO-like peer selection to reduce P2P traffic RFC 6893 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) A naming system for the Open IPTV Forum specifications. RFC 7101 List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by a Web Page RFC numbering for protocol standards documents goes online RFC 7207 Eurosystem URN Namespace A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Eurosystem Messaging A registered namespace for identifying Eurosystem financial messaging resources RFC 7221 Handling of Internet-Drafts by IETF Working Groups How working groups develop and adopt documents through consensus RFC 7255 Using the International Mobile station Equipment Identity (IMEI) Uniform Resource Name (URN) as an Instance ID Using a phone's serial number as its unique identifier in SIP RFC 7270 Cisco-Specific Information Elements Reused in IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Standard names for flow export fields from Cisco networking equipment. RFC 7288 Reflections on Host Firewalls Why software gets firewalled instead of fixed, updated, or stopped RFC 7452 Architectural Considerations in Smart Object Networking How to design Internet-connected embedded devices that actually work RFC 7467 URN Namespace for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) NATO registers the formal URN namespace identifier "nato" so its XML message specifications get stable, unique names. RFC 7528 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) Association Reserved naming space for the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV standard. RFC 7620 Scenarios with Host Identification Complications When networks can't tell which host is which behind a shared address RFC 7663 SEMI Workshop Report Report from the IAB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI) How middleboxes block new transport protocols and what to do about it RFC 7703 MAP-T Testing Experience with Testing of Mapping of Address and Port Using Translation (MAP-T) What happens when many users share one IPv4 address through double translation RFC 7704 An IETF with Much Diversity and Professional Conduct Building a more welcoming and respectful standards community RFC 7735 Tracking Reviews of Documents Integration requirements for IETF review team tools and the Datatracker. RFC 7738 URN Namespace for CCSDS A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) Permanent names for space data system standards and documents. RFC 7760 Statement of Work for Extensions to the IETF Datatracker for Author Statistics Tracking who writes IETF standards and where they work RFC 7803 Changing the Registration Policy for the NETCONF Capability URNs Registry Relaxes the registration policy for NETCONF capability identifiers. RFC 7818 URN Namespace for MEF URN Namespace for MEF Documents Establishes a URN namespace for MEF Forum specifications. RFC 7827 The Role of the IRTF Chair Job description and expectations for the IRTF chair RFC 7842 Requirements for Improvements to the IETF Email List Archiving, Web-Based Browsing, and Search Tool Making the IETF email archive search tool faster and easier to use. RFC 7853 A URN Namespace for Globus A namespace for Globus to give persistent names to its resources. RFC 8023 Report from the Workshop and Prize on Root Causes and Mitigation of Name Collisions Workshop findings on domain name collisions when new TLDs clash with private networks. RFC 8057 Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespaces for Broadband Forum Unique naming identifiers for Broadband Forum specifications and resources RFC 8069 URN Namespace for IEEE Namespace identifier ieee for URNs identifying IEEE resources RFC 8107 Ad-ID URN Advertising Digital Identifier (Ad-ID) URN Namespace Definition A global naming system for advertising assets across all media platforms. RFC 8140 Arte of ASCII The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character ASCII art creatures and structures for reuse in IETF documents RFC 8423 Suite B historic Reclassification of Suite B Documents to Historic Status Archive of superseded NSA Suite B cryptographic standards RFC 8477 IOTSI Workshop Report from the Internet of Things (IoT) Semantic Interoperability (IOTSI) Workshop 2016 Bridging the language gap between smart devices from different vendors. RFC 8515 URN ETSI URN Namespace for ETSI Documents A permanent naming scheme for ETSI standards documents. RFC 8568 Network Virtualization Research Challenges Open problems in network virtualization for research and standards RFC 8597 CLAS for SDN Cooperating Layered Architecture for Software-Defined Networking (CLAS) Split network control into separate layers for services and transport. RFC 8716 Anti-harassment update Update to the IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures for the Replacement of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) with the IETF Administration LLC Updating IETF harassment procedures to reflect changes in governance structure. RFC 8752 IAB ESCAPE report Report from the IAB Workshop on Exploring Synergy between Content Aggregation and the Publisher Ecosystem (ESCAPE) Workshop proceedings on Web Packaging, content aggregation, and the publisher ecosystem. RFC 8763 ICN deployment Deployment Considerations for Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Roadmap and configurations for deploying Information-Centric Networking as internet infrastructure evolves. RFC 8772 BNG S-CUSP The China Mobile, Huawei, and ZTE Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) Simple Control and User Plane Separation Protocol (S-CUSP) Protocol for splitting BNG control and forwarding functions into separate planes. RFC 8774 The Quantum Bug The Quantum Bug What happens when quantum entanglement gives internet packets zero round-trip time. RFC 8802 Q4S The Quality for Service (Q4S) Protocol Application-level protocol for monitoring end-to-end quality of service RFC 8822 5WE 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence User Plane Encapsulation (5WE) Encapsulation for 5G residential gateway traffic over wireline networks. RFC 8884 Research Directions for Using Information-Centric Networking (ICN) in Disaster Scenarios How information-centric networking can help people communicate after large-scale disasters when normal networks break. RFC 8953 CARIS2 Report Coordinating Attack Response at Internet Scale 2 (CARIS2) Workshop Report Report from a 2019 workshop on coordinating Internet-scale incident response. RFC 8963 Evaluation of a Sample of RFCs Produced in 2018 A study of how long Internet standards take to publish. RFC 8975 Network Coding Satellite Network Coding for Satellite Systems Using clever data mixing to recover from satellite link losses RFC 8980 Report from the IAB Workshop on Design Expectations vs. Deployment Reality in Protocol Development How Internet protocols often deploy in unexpected, centralized ways RFC 9049 Path Aware Networking Path Aware Networking: Obstacles to Deployment (A Bestiary of Roads Not Taken) Why decades of attempts to let apps choose network paths have mostly failed RFC 9075 IAB COVID-19 Workshop Report from the IAB COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop 2020 How the pandemic changed Internet traffic and what it revealed about networks RFC 9225 Software Defects Considered Harmful A humorous call to stop introducing bugs into software. RFC 9236 Architectural Considerations of Information-Centric Networking (ICN) Using a Name Resolution Service Mapping content names to their locations in a next-generation Internet. RFC 9307 AID Workshop Report Report from the IAB Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID) 2021 How researchers are studying the IETF through its own data RFC 9316 Intent Classification Intent Classification How to categorize and understand different types of network intent RFC 9318 Network Quality Report IAB Workshop Report: Measuring Network Quality for End-Users What makes a good Internet connection beyond just speed. RFC 9400 Guidelines for the Organization of Fully Online Meetings How to organize large engineering meetings entirely online: timing, duration, and structure. RFC 9402 Concat Notation A text notation for describing cat pictures and container interactions. RFC 9405 AI Sarcasm Detection: Insult Your AI without Offending It A framework for detecting sarcasm in AI systems and using sarcasm respectfully. RFC 9419 Considerations on Application - Network Collaboration Using Path Signals Design principles for explicit communication between apps and network elements RFC 9446 Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations Four perspectives on ten years since the NSA surveillance revelations RFC 9473 Path properties A Vocabulary of Path Properties A shared vocabulary for describing network paths and their characteristics RFC 9517 DDI URN namespace A URN Namespace for the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) A persistent naming scheme for research data documents. RFC 9547 Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022 What the Internet Architecture Board learned about designing networks for environmental sustainability. RFC 9556 Internet of Things (IoT) Edge Challenges and Functions Why computing at the edge solves IoT problems that the cloud cannot RFC 9564 FLIP Faster Than Light Speed Protocol (FLIP) Using AI to predict packets before they arrive, achieving faster-than-light-speed delivery. RFC 9583 Application Scenarios for the Quantum Internet Vision for quantum network applications including cryptography, sensing and computing RFC 9614 Privacy partitioning Partitioning as an Architecture for Privacy Spreading data across parties to protect identity while preserving function. RFC 9676 LEX URN Namespace LEX: A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for Sources of Law A standard way to name legal documents so they can be found anywhere. RFC 9680 IETF Antitrust Policy Antitrust Guidelines for IETF Participants Guidelines for competing companies collaborating safely at the IETF. RFC 9707 IAB BIAS Workshop Report from the IAB Workshop on Barriers to Internet Access of Services (BIAS) Reports on barriers to internet access including community networks, digital divide, and censorship. RFC 9759 Two-Week Principle Unified Time Scaling for Temporal Coordination Frameworks Standardizing all time estimates to a universal duration of two weeks. RFC 9775 IRTF code of conduct IRTF Code of Conduct How to treat people fairly in an Internet research organization RFC 9817 COIN use cases Use Cases for In-Network Computing Applications and opportunities for computing deployed directly in network devices like switches and NICs. RFC 9948 IPP punishments Internet Protocol Police (IPP) - Schedule of Punishments A tongue-in-cheek schedule of penalties for breaking IETF community norms. RFC 9968 IAB NEMOPS report Report from the IAB Workshop on the Next Era of Network Management Operations (NEMOPS) Following up on network management operator requirements two decades later. RFC 9969 IAB AI-CONTROL report Report from the IAB Workshop on AI-CONTROL Standardizing how website owners communicate preferences about AI training and use. RFC 9998 IAB/W3C age report Report from the IAB/W3C Workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access What experts learned about protecting children online through technical design. RFC 4071 IASA Structure Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) How the IETF's administrative and financial operations are organized and overseen. RFC 61 Note on Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network A 1970 design for how separate computers in a network could communicate. RFC 95 Distribution of NWG/RFC's through the NIC Organizing how RFC notes would be distributed through the Network Information Center. RFC 132 Typographical Error in RFC 107 A correction to a range specification in RFC 107's flow control section. RFC 160 RFC brief list An early lookup guide for Request for Comments documents. RFC 170 RFC List by Number A comprehensive list of RFCs by number with author and date. RFC 198 Site Certification - Lincoln Labs 360/67 Lincoln Labs certified its network computer RFC 207 September Network Working Group meeting Three-phase meeting for the Network Working Group RFC 235 Site status Periodic reports on which ARPANET hosts were available for use. RFC 237 NIC view of standard host names Rules for naming computers on the network RFC 326 Network Host Status A 1972 status report on which ARPANET hosts were up, and which were left out of daily testing. RFC 332 Network Host Status ARPANET host availability report for April 1972 RFC 825 Request for comments on Requests For Comments Jon Postel's 1982 memo that tells authors how to state an RFC's purpose and how to format it. RFC 1120 IAB History Internet Activities Board The coordinating body for internet design, engineering, and management in 1989. RFC 1177 FYI Q and A FYI on Questions and Answers: Answers to commonly asked "new internet user" questions Answers to the most commonly asked questions by new Internet users. RFC 1367 Schedule for IP Address Space Management Guidelines A timeline for rolling out new Internet address allocation rules. RFC 1391 Tao of the IETF The Tao of the IETF: A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task Force A friendly 1993 field guide to how the IETF works and how to survive your first meeting. RFC 1739 A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools A beginner's guide to TCP/IP utilities and Internet tools RFC 2436 Collaboration between ISOC/IETF and ITU-T The framework for joint standards work between the Internet Engineering Task Force and the International Telecommunication Union. RFC 3001 A URN Namespace of Object Identifiers Encoding Object Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names. RFC 3285 Using Microsoft Word to create Internet Drafts and RFCs How to set up Microsoft Word to produce RFC-compliant documents RFC 4441 IEEE 802 and IETF The IEEE 802/IETF Relationship How IEEE 802 and IETF coordinate on standards for network hardware and protocols. RFC 6255 DTN IANA registries Delay-Tolerant Networking Bundle Protocol IANA Registries How the Delay-Tolerant Networking research group handed its Bundle Protocol number lists to IANA. RFC 5797 FTP Command Registry FTP Command and Extension Registry An IANA registry that keeps FTP command names and extension names from colliding. RFC 6075 The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) Vendor Subtrees Registry A registry for company-specific namespace extensions in Internet protocols RFC 7280 IANA Guidance for Managing the Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) Next-Header Registry Clearer rules for who can add entries to the ULE Next-Header registry, now shared by ULE and GSE. RFC 8892 Guidelines and Registration Procedures for Interface Types and Tunnel Types The rules for adding new interface types and tunnel types to the IANA registries, now independent of MIB or YANG. RFC 298 Network host status ARPANET host status for January 17-28, 1972, noting Utah and Rand as new servers. RFC 303 ARPA Network mailing lists Three postal mailing lists for distributing network documents across ARPANET sites. RFC 306 Network host status Checking which network hosts were working in February 1972 RFC 342 Network Host Status Checking which network hosts were working in late April and early May 1972 RFC 344 Network Host Status Checking which network hosts were working in May 1972 RFC 353 Network host status Checking which network hosts were working in late May and early June 1972 RFC 362 Network Host Status Checking which network hosts were working in June 1972 RFC 366 Network Host Status Checking which network hosts were working in late June 1972 RFC 776 Assigned numbers A registry of protocol numbers, port assignments, and network identifiers for the early Internet. RFC 1130 IAB Standards List IAB official protocol standards The October 1989 status report on which Internet protocols were at which stage of standardization. RFC 1200 IAB Protocol Standards IAB official protocol standards The official status and standardization track of Internet protocols as determined by the Internet Activities Board. RFC 1250 IAB Protocol Standards IAB Official Protocol Standards The authoritative guide to the standardization state and status of Internet protocols. RFC 1720 Official Standards list Internet Official Protocol Standards Status report on Internet protocol standardization as of November 1994 RFC 2498 IPPM Connectivity IPPM Metrics for Measuring Connectivity Standard definitions for measuring whether packets can travel between two hosts RFC 6982 Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section Documenting implementations to improve protocol standards RFC 8989 NomCom Eligibility Additional Criteria for Nominating Committee Eligibility Temporary expanded paths for volunteers to lead IETF governance RFC 6082 Deprecating Unicode Language Tag Characters: RFC 2482 is Historic Moving an outdated Unicode feature from standards to history. RFC 8720 IANA registry principles Principles for Operation of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Registries Principles for keeping the authoritative registries of internet protocol numbers fair and trustworthy. RFC 8722 Registry operators Defining the Role and Function of IETF Protocol Parameter Registry Operators Who manages the shared number lists that keep protocols compatible. RFC 229 Standard host names A proposed standard for eight-character host names on the ARPA Network. RFC 289 What we hope is an official list of host names The official list of ARPANET host names and network addresses for users and systems. RFC 293 Network Host Status BBN's status report on ARPANET host availability for January 1972. RFC 331 IMP System Change Notification Planning a major upgrade to the ARPANET's packet routers RFC 349 Proposed Standard Socket Numbers A proposal for centrally assigning and tracking network service port numbers. RFC 378 Traffic statistics (July 1972) Monthly statistics on ARPANET host data traffic for July 1972. RFC 389 UCLA Campus Computing Network Liaison Staff for ARPA Network Contact information for UCLA's ARPANET network liaison staff. RFC 434 IMP/TIP memory retrofit schedule Schedule for upgrading the network's memory-bearing machines during early 1973. RFC 766 Internet Protocol Handbook: Table of contents Draft outline for a handbook of internet protocols RFC 945 DoD statement on the NRC report A DoD position on transport protocols from the National Research Council. RFC 1083 IAB Standards List IAB official protocol standards The Internet standards status report from December 1988: which protocols were standard, draft, proposed, experimental or historic. RFC 1980 Client-Side Image Maps A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image Maps Clickable image regions defined by the page, not the server. RFC 3044 Using The ISSN (International Serial Standard Number) as URN (Uniform Resource Names) within an ISSN-URN Namespace How the number printed on magazines and journals can double as a permanent Uniform Resource Name. RFC 4020 Early IANA Allocation Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points When IANA hands out protocol code points before a standard is final RFC 4693 IETF Operational Notes IETF Operational Notes A proposal for a middle tier of documents to hold IETF operational procedures. RFC 7319 CFM IANA IANA Considerations for Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Code Points IANA procedures for allocating Ethernet CFM message types and TLV codes from IEEE 802.1. RFC 8715 Trustee rationale IETF Administrative Support Activity 2.0: Update to the Process for Selection of Trustees for the IETF Trust Why the IETF changed how it selects trustees for the IETF Trust. RFC 9371 PEN Registration Registration Procedures for Private Enterprise Numbers (PENs) How to get and manage a Private Enterprise Number for your organization. RFC 5342 IEEE 802 Parameters IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters How IANA hands out Ethernet addresses and protocol numbers from the IETF's own block of IEEE space. RFC 4879 Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC 3979 A one-word fix to the IETF patent disclosure rules: ask the IPR holder, not the discloser. RFC 1986 ETFTP Experiments with a Simple File Transfer Protocol for Radio Links using Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ETFTP) File transfer optimized for slow, unreliable radio networks RFC 5111 Exploratory Groups Experiment in Exploratory Group Formation within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Early-stage work groups to test prerequisites for formal IETF team formation. RFC 5984 Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding: ESPBasedForwarding An April 1st proposal for reaching infinite bandwidth using psychic forwarding RFC 6217 Atmospheric link layer Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer An April 1st joke proposing skywriting to broadcast network messages. RFC 6258 DTN metadata block Delay-Tolerant Networking Metadata Extension Block Extra information blocks that help DTN nodes make routing and storage decisions. RFC 6259 DTN previous-hop block Delay-Tolerant Networking Previous-Hop Insertion Block A one-hop block that tells the next node who just forwarded the bundle. RFC 8771 I-DUNNO The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO) An April Fools' scheme to write IP addresses in deliberately confusing Unicode. RFC 9226 Bioctal Bioctal: Hexadecimal 2.0 An April Fools' proposal to replace hexadecimal with a more cognitive-friendly base-16 notation. RFC 2050 IP Allocation Guidelines Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines The 1996 rulebook for how address registries handed out IPv4 space, now replaced. RFC 228 Clarification A one-line correction to a FORTRAN program printed in RFC 70. RFC 4333 IAOC Selection The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) Member Selection Guidelines and Process How the IETF picks members of its administrative oversight committee. RFC 6220 Defining the Role and Function of IETF Protocol Parameter Registry Operators How IETF entrusts the management of shared code point registries. RFC 2278 IANA Charset Registration Procedures The process for registering character encodings with IANA. RFC 7691 Updating the Term Dates of IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) Members Practical fixes for when IETF committee members' terms should begin and end RFC 1346 Resource Allocation, Control, and Accounting for the Use of Network Resources Challenges in allocating and controlling shared network resources. RFC 2468 I REMEMBER IANA A tribute to Jon Postel, the Internet's keeper of numbers RFC 2901 Guide to Administrative Procedures of the Internet Infrastructure A practical checklist for networks joining the Internet RFC 4089 IETF Admin Restructure IAB and IESG Recommendation for IETF Administrative Restructuring How the IETF chose to reorganize its business operations. RFC 5513 Three Letter Acronyms IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms A humorous RFC about managing the world's supply of three-letter acronyms RFC 5745 IAB Stream Rights Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC IAB Stream What authors give, and what readers may do, with the text of RFCs published through the IAB stream. RFC 6359 Datatracker Extensions to Include IANA and RFC Editor Processing Information Requirements for showing IANA and RFC Editor progress in the IETF Datatracker, from first draft to published RFC. RFC 7036 Object Identifier Registry for the Long-Term Archive and Notary Services (LTANS) Working Group A bookkeeping record of the object identifiers the LTANS working group handed out, and the rules for adding more. RFC 7979 IANA Transition Response Response to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) Request for Proposals on the IANA Protocol Parameters Registries The IETF's formal answer on how the IANA protocol parameters registries should be run once the US government steps back. RFC 8090 CCG Appointments Appointment Procedures for the IETF Representatives to the Community Coordination Group (CCG) How the IAB picks, removes and reports on the IETF's three seats on the group that advises on IANA trademarks and domain names. RFC 8101 IANA Registration of New Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Resource-Priority Namespace for Mission Critical Push To Talk Service Two new SIP priority namespaces, mcpttp and mcpttq, registered so Mission Critical Push To Talk calls can be prioritized. RFC 8128 IETF Appointment Procedures for the ICANN Root Zone Evolution Review Committee How the IAB picks the IETF's delegate to ICANN's Root Zone Evolution Review Committee. RFC 8726 Independent IANA How Requests for IANA Action Will Be Handled on the Independent Stream Rules for IANA registries in documents outside the main IETF track. RFC 7302 Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) URN Namespace Definition A standard naming scheme for unique identifiers of movies and TV shows. RFC 7500 Principles for Operation of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Registries Seven principles for running the global registries that Internet protocols depend on. RFC 6 Conversation with Bob Kahn Notes from a 1969 discussion about character code conversion and Host-IMP communication. RFC 8 ARPA Network Functional Specifications A handwritten May 1969 specification covering error checks, host-to-host links, and how two hosts open a connection. RFC 12 IMP-Host interface flow diagrams Flow diagrams showing the step-by-step hardware logic of the IMP-to-host and host-to-IMP message interface. RFC 13 Zero Text Length EOF Message Vint Cerf's 1969 proposal to use a zero-length message to mark the end of a file. RFC 15 Network subsystem for time sharing hosts A 1969 proposal for Telnet, a small program that lets a terminal on one host act as a terminal on another. RFC 17 Some questions re: Host-IMP Protocol Questions about the Host-IMP protocol design, with responses from the ARPANET designers. RFC 18 IMP-IMP and HOST-HOST Control Links A proposal to segregate control traffic between network processors from regular Host communication. RFC 21 Network meeting Summary of an October 1969 ARPANET network meeting and discussions. RFC 25 No High Link Numbers Limit link numbers to 63 instead of allowing all 256 values. RFC 29 Response to RFC 28 The IMP uses two clocks: a fine hardware clock for internal timing and a coarser software clock for measurements. RFC 32 Some Thoughts on SRI's Proposed Real Time Clock Early proposal for adding a clock to network hosts for delay measurements RFC 34 Some Brief Preliminary Notes on the Augmentation Research Center Clock Technical description of the Augmentation Research Center's network clock system RFC 41 IMP-IMP Teletype Communication Request to add timestamps to IMP-to-IMP network messages RFC 43 Proposed Meeting Announcement of a working group meeting to discuss network I/O and interactive graphics RFC 45 New Protocol is Coming An announcement that a cleaner network protocol specification is coming RFC 50 Comments on the Meyer Proposal RAND Corporation's feedback supporting the Meyer proposal with some proposed modifications RFC 56 Logger Protocol Third Level Protocol: Logger Protocol A third-level protocol defining how users log in to and interact with remote hosts over the network RFC 64 Getting rid of marking Removing unnecessary padding bits from network messages. RFC 72 Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol A call to pause protocol changes while the network becomes operational. RFC 73 Response to NWG/RFC 67 An early 1970 response cautioning against premature protocol changes. RFC 75 Network Meeting Notice of a network research group meeting in November 1970. RFC 79 Logger Protocol error A notice pointing out a contradiction between two protocol specifications. RFC 81 Request for Reference Information A request for reference materials on data communications and communications theory. RFC 82 Network Meeting Notes Notes from three 1970 network protocol meetings in Houston RFC 84 List of NWG/RFC's 1-80 An index and catalog of the first 80 network working group notes RFC 85 Network Working Group meeting Announcement of the next Network Working Group meeting RFC 89 Some historic moments in networking Early network experiments connecting MIT to Multics and Harvard RFC 90 CCN as a Network Service Center The UCLA Computing Center's hardware and services available to ARPANET users RFC 118 Recommendations for facility documentation What network services should document for users and programmers RFC 136 Host accounting and administrative procedures Identifying the questions for billing and administration in a shared network RFC 152 SRI Artificial Intelligence status report SRI's Artificial Intelligence group announces plans to join the ARPANET RFC 153 SRI ARC-NIC status SRI's Network Information Center reports on TENEX conversion and network connection plans RFC 157 Invitation to the Second Symposium on Problems in the Optimization of Data Communications Systems Call for papers to a pioneering symposium on network optimization and software. RFC 169 COMPUTER NETWORKS Invitation to a professional workshop for people new to computer networks research. RFC 182 Compilation of list of relevant site reports Building a network-wide bibliography of site research reports. RFC 185 NIC distribution of manuals and handbooks Request for copies of computer manuals for network-wide distribution. RFC 188 Data management meeting announcement The first ARPANET Data Management meeting, August 2-3, 1971. RFC 223 Network Information Center schedule for network users When the first network information service opens for business. RFC 230 Toward reliable operation of minicomputer-based terminals on a TIP Adding error detection to terminal connections. RFC 232 Postponement of network graphics meeting A scheduled meeting moves to a later date. RFC 233 Standardization of host call letters Four-letter nicknames for early ARPANET computers RFC 239 Host mnemonics proposed in RFC 226 (NIC 7625) Technical critique of proposed ARPANET host naming scheme RFC 245 Reservations for Network Group meeting Lodging for the Network Working Group meeting RFC 249 Coordination of equipment and supplies purchase A feasibility study of pooled network member equipment purchases RFC 253 Second Network Graphics meeting details Logistics for the second network graphics meeting at Stanford RFC 268 Graphics Facilities Graphics facilities information A request to document the drawing and visualization equipment available at each network site. RFC 274 MITRE Network Guide Establishing a local guide for network usage A plan to build a practical guide for network users at MITRE based on real-world experience. RFC 276 NIC Course NIC course An announcement of a two-day training course in NLS for network site coordinators. RFC 286 Network Library System Network Library Information System A proposal to share library catalogs across the ARPA network using computer systems. RFC 295 Report of the Protocol Workshop, 12 October 1971 Decisions and guidelines for protocol design from the October 1971 workshop RFC 296 DS-1 Display System A display terminal combining a plasma screen and embedded processor RFC 305 Unknown Host Numbers Why the ARPANET sees IMPs that don't officially exist yet RFC 313 Computer based instruction Could the ARPANET's resources help schools teach students? RFC 314 Network Graphics Working Group Meeting Meeting details and hotel reservations for the Network Graphics Working Group RFC 320 Workshop on Hard Copy Line Graphics Workshop on hard-copy line graphics at Carnegie Mellon University RFC 321 CBI Networking Activity at MITRE MITRE's plans to teach via the ARPANET using remote systems RFC 324 RJE Protocol meeting A working meeting to design remote job entry protocols RFC 327 Data and File Transfer workshop notes Workshop decisions on how the ARPANET should move files between different computer types RFC 334 Network Use on May 8 A warning that network performance tests might cause temporary outage RFC 335 New Interface - IMP/360 UCSB upgraded its computer's connection to the ARPANET RFC 336 Level 0 Graphic Input Protocol A protocol for how input devices send information to graphics systems. RFC 339 MLTNET MLTNET: A "Multi Telnet" Subsystem for Tenex Control multiple remote jobs on different network hosts from one local console. RFC 340 Proposed Telnet Changes Arguments for keeping data type codes and password masking in Telnet. RFC 345 Interest in Mixed Integer Programming (MPSX on NIC 360/91 at CCN) Seeking network sites to share the cost of an optimization software package. RFC 350 User Accounts for UCSB On-Line System New login requirements to track network user access and billing. RFC 351 Graphics information form for the ARPANET graphics resources notebook Questionnaire to survey graphics hardware and capabilities at ARPANET sites. RFC 352 TIP Survey TIP Site Information Form A form to collect information about terminal access points on the ARPANET. RFC 356 NCC Update ARPA Network Control Center Announcement that the ARPANET Network Control Center is now staffed 24/7 with a new phone number. RFC 361 Echo and Discard Deamon Processes on Host 106 MIT-DMCG announces daemon processes for testing network connections. RFC 368 RJE Feedback Comments on "Proposed Remote Job Entry Protocol" Technical comments on the proposed Remote Job Entry protocol. RFC 372 ICCC Logistics Notes on a Conversation with Bob Kahn on the ICCC Detailed notes on the planning and logistics for the ICCC ARPANET demonstration. RFC 374 IMP System Announcement An announcement of the new IMP software release and network power failures. RFC 382 Mathematical Software on the ARPA Network A proposal to make mathematical software libraries available as a shared network resource. RFC 386 Letter to TIP users-2 The second letter to TIP users documenting system changes and known issues. RFC 390 TSO Scenario A worked example of batch compilation and foreground execution in TSO. RFC 393 Comments on Telnet Protocol Changes Defending terminal-emulation features in the remote-terminal protocol RFC 395 Switch Settings on IMPs and TIPs Front-panel switch configuration for network routers RFC 403 Desirability of a Network 1108 Service Proposal to share University of Utah's large mainframe computer on the network RFC 408 NETBANK NETBANK Single billing and account system for network resource access RFC 409 SMFS Tenex interface to UCSB's Simple-Minded File System TENEX subsystem for accessing UCSB's remote file storage RFC 411 New MULTICS Network Software Features Case mapping and better allocation handling for Multics network users RFC 412 User FTP Documentation Help documentation for the Utah-10 user FTP process RFC 416 ARC System Will Be Unavailable for Use During Thanksgiving Week Schedule notice for ARC system downtime during Thanksgiving 1972 RFC 417 Link usage violation Warning about TENEX link number violations of the Host-Host protocol RFC 419 To: Network liaisons and station agents A maintenance notice from MIT's Project MAC RFC 420 CCA ICCC weather demo A networked natural language system for answering weather questions RFC 421 Software Consulting Service for Network Users A help desk for people learning to use the early network RFC 425 "But my NCP costs $500 a day" A standard host status service to reduce network polling overhead RFC 429 Chargen Character Generator Process A standard test service that generates and sends character data RFC 432 Network logical map A snapshot of the ARPANET's physical connections in late 1972. RFC 437 Data Reconfiguration Service at UCSB A service for reformatting data streams between incompatible network processes. RFC 439 PARRY encounters the DOCTOR When two chatbots met on the ARPANET for a memorable therapy session. RFC 441 Inter-Entity Communication - an experiment An experiment in letting network users find and communicate with each other across systems. RFC 443 Traffic statistics (December 1972) The ARPANET's usage statistics showing traffic across all connected systems in December 1972. RFC 445 IMP/TIP preventive maintenance schedule A monthly schedule of network equipment maintenance times. RFC 446 Proposal to consider a network program resource notebook A proposal to catalog what programs and resources are available on the ARPANET. RFC 450 MULTICS sampling timeout change Increasing the time limit for trial use of a remote computer system. RFC 452 Telnet TELNET Command at Host LL A guide to accessing remote systems from an IBM mainframe using the TELNET protocol. RFC 457 TIPUG A request for TIP users to join the distribution list for guides and newsletters. RFC 461 Telnet Telnet Protocol meeting announcement A 1973 call to standardize the Telnet remote login protocol RFC 463 FTP FTP comments and response to RFC 430 A discussion of FTP protocol refinements and technical feedback RFC 466 Telnet Telnet logger/server for host LL-67 A Telnet implementation for the Lincoln Lab CP/CMS system on the ARPANET RFC 470 Change in socket for TIP news facility Notice of socket change for the TIP News facility at BBN-TENEX RFC 471 Workshop on multi-site executive programs Announcement of a workshop on unified command interfaces for ARPANET resources RFC 472 Illinois' reply to Maxwell's request for graphics information (NIC 14925) Illinois' response on early graphics capabilities at the university. RFC 478 FTP FTP server-server interaction - II The command that lets two servers exchange data without forcing the user to wait. RFC 480 FTP Host-dependent FTP parameters A technique to add server-specific parameters to FTP file requests without changing the protocol. RFC 483 Cancellation of the resource notebook framework meeting Cancellation notice for the Resource Notebook Framework meeting scheduled for March 19, 1973. RFC 486 FTP Data transfer revisited A proposal to merge FTP and RJE into a unified data transfer protocol. RFC 488 NLS classes at network sites SRI-ARC offers to visit network sites and teach the Online System. RFC 489 Comment on resynchronization of connection status proposal Postel suggests better names for connection recovery commands. RFC 490 Surrogate RJS for UCLA-CCN UCSB users can submit jobs to UCLA's computer through a gateway service. RFC 496 TNLS quick reference card is available A quick reference card for TNLS terminal commands and settings is now available. RFC 499 Harvard's network RJE Harvard's PDP-10 program for submitting jobs to UCLA over the ARPA Network. RFC 500 Integration of data management systems on a computer network A framework for querying multiple databases through a common language. RFC 504 Distributed resources workshop announcement A workshop to explore how to automate resource sharing across computers on the ARPANET. RFC 506 FTP FTP command naming problem A proposal to rename confusing FTP commands with clearer synonyms. RFC 508 Real-time data transmission on the ARPANET An experiment testing whether the ARPANET could carry real-time audio or video. RFC 511 Enterprise phone service to NIC from ARPANET sites Enterprise phone numbers for calling the ARPANET information center. RFC 515 Specifications for Datalanguage, Version 0/9 Specification of a language for describing and managing shared data storage on the ARPANET. RFC 518 ARPANET accounts A directory of how to open an account at ARPANET sites in 1973. RFC 521 Restricted use of IMP DDT A security measure restricting access to the debugging tool on network routing machines. RFC 526 Technical meeting: Digital image processing software systems An announcement of a technical meeting on digital image processing software and systems. RFC 527 ARPAWOCKY A parody of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, rewritten with ARPANET terminology and concepts. RFC 528 Software checksumming in the IMP and network reliability Detecting errors hidden inside the network switches themselves. RFC 532 FTP UCSD-CC Server-FTP facility Describing how a computer center's file transfer service worked on a B6700. RFC 535 FTP Comments on File Access Protocol Suggestions to make remote files work like local ones. RFC 537 Announcement of NGG meeting July 16-17 Announcing a meeting of the Network Graphics Group. RFC 544 Locating on-line documentation at SRI-ARC Where to find documentation in the NLS system. RFC 545 Of what quality be the UCSB resources evaluators? A defense of UCSB's approach to evaluating network resources. RFC 546 Tenex load averages for July 1973 Measuring how busy two TENEX systems were during working hours in 1973. RFC 549 Minutes of Network Graphics Group meeting, 15-17 July 1973 Meeting notes on network graphics protocol design and experiences. RFC 550 NIC NCP experiment Statistics on network message patterns from 100 hours of NCP operation. RFC 551 NYU, ANL, and LBL Joining the Net Proposal to implement remote job execution over FTP using special filenames. RFC 557 REVELATIONS IN NETWORK HOST MEASUREMENTS Follow-up on network host performance measurements RFC 570 Experimental input mapping between NVT ASCII and UCSB On Line System Mapping network terminal keys to a specialized online system RFC 576 Proposal for modifying linking Proposal to improve the user interface for multi-user linking on Tenex. RFC 584 Charter for ARPANET Users Interest Working Group A working group formed to represent network users' interests RFC 585 ARPANET users interest working group meeting A May 1973 meeting where network users aired their wishes for the system RFC 592 Some thoughts on system design to facilitate resource sharing Designing computers to work together as modular network services rather than pretending to be users. RFC 598 RFC index - December 5, 1973 A comprehensive directory of every RFC published through December 1973. RFC 600 PLATO Terminal Interfacing an Illinois plasma terminal to the ARPANET Connecting a plasma display terminal to the ARPANET RFC 602 Network Security "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care" Early ARPANET security vulnerabilities and warnings RFC 612 Traffic Stats Traffic statistics (December 1973) ARPANET host traffic statistics for December 1973 RFC 616 LATEST NETWORK MAPS Early ARPANET maps showing geographic and logical network layout RFC 617 Note on socket number assignment Why protocols should not require fixed socket numbers RFC 618 Few observations on NCP statistics Operating statistics and message patterns from a live ARPANET site RFC 631 International meeting on minicomputers and data communication: Call for papers Call for papers at a 1975 conference on minicomputers and networking. RFC 662 Performance improvement in ARPANET file transfers from Multics Faster file transfer for Multics over the ARPANET by increasing buffer size RFC 667 Host Ports An approved scheme for connecting host computers to the ARPANET through host ports RFC 671 Note on Reconnection Protocol Experience implementing the Telnet reconnection protocol to remove a middleman from the communication path RFC 681 Network UNIX A version of UNIX that treats network connections as special files, integrating ARPANET protocols into the filesystem RFC 685 Response time in cross network debugging How much delay does the ARPANET add to debugging? RFC 689 Tenex NCP finite state machine for connections The state machine controlling TENEX NCP connections. RFC 695 Official change in Host-Host Protocol Clarification of the ERR command error codes. RFC 705 Front-end Protocol B6700 version A protocol for letting a helper processor manage network access. RFC 708 Elements of a Distributed Programming System Extensions for a distributed system beyond simple remote calls RFC 712 DCCS Distributed Capability Computing System (DCCS) A distributed system using capabilities to control access across networks RFC 714 Host-Host Protocol for an ARPANET-Type Network A redesigned host-to-host protocol for ARPANET-like networks RFC 716 Interim Revision to Appendix F of BBN 1822 Clarification of Very Distant Host interface operations RFC 722 Thoughts on Interactions in Distributed Services Design principles for programs on different network sites that work together. RFC 828 Data communications: IFIP's international "network" of experts An overview of international research and standards work in data communications. RFC 840 Official protocols An official registry of Internet protocols and their standardization status. RFC 873 Illusion of vendor support Why waiting for vendor-backed ISO standards is a false hope. RFC 875 Gateways, architectures, and heffalumps Why protocol translating gateways between different networks cause deep problems. RFC 967 All victims together A call to document how networks integrate with operating systems. RFC 968 Twas the night before start-up A humorous guide to debugging new network startups. RFC 1015 Implementation plan for interagency research Internet A blueprint for connecting federal research networks into a unified internet. RFC 1017 Network requirements for scientific research: Internet task force on scientific computing What networks need to do for science and engineering research. RFC 1019 Report of the Workshop on Environments for Computational Mathematics Notes from a workshop on how computers should represent and exchange mathematical expressions. RFC 1124 Policy Issues Workshop Policy issues in interconnecting networks How to join federal research networks while respecting each agency's policies RFC 1707 CATNIP CATNIP: Common Architecture for the Internet A unified network layer format that bridges IPv4, CLNP, and IPX RFC 6529 Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network The protocol that connected computers on the original ARPANET. RFC 7649 The Jabber Scribe Role at IETF Meetings Volunteers who relay meeting discussions to online participants