RFC Abstracts
RFC2769 - Routing Policy System Replication
This document addresses the need to distribute data over multiple repositories and delegate authority for data subsets to other repositories without compromising the authorization model established in Routing Policy System Security RFC. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2768 - Network Policy and Services: A Report of a Workshop on Middleware
An ad hoc middleware workshop was held at the International Center for Advanced Internet Research in December 1998. The need for a more organized framework for middleware R&D was recognized, and a list of specific topics needing further work was identified. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2767 - Dual Stack Hosts using the "Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique (BIS)
This memo proposes a mechanism of dual stack hosts using the technique called "Bump-in-the-Stack" in the IP security area. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2766 - Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT)
This document specifies an IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanism, in addition to those already specified. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2765 - Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT)
This document specifies a transition mechanism algorithm in addition to the mechanisms already specified. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2764 - A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks
This document describes a framework for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) running across IP backbones. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2763 - Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for IS-IS
This document defines a new TLV which allows the IS-IS routers to flood their name to system ID mapping information across the IS-IS network. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2762 - Sampling of the Group Membership in RTP
This document discusses mechanisms for sampling of this group membership table in order to reduce the memory requirements. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC2761 - Terminology for ATM Benchmarking
This memo discusses and defines terms associated with performance benchmarking tests and the results of these tests in the context of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) based switching devices. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2760 - Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites
This document outlines possible TCP enhancements that may allow TCP to better utilize the available bandwidth provided by networks containing satellite links. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2759 - Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions, Version 2
This document describes version two of Microsoft's PPP CHAP dialect (MS-CHAP-V2). MS-CHAP-V2 is similar to, but incompatible with, MS-CHAP version one (MS-CHAP-V1). This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2758 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Service Level Agreements Performance Monitoring
This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) for performance monitoring of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) defined via policy definitions. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC2757 - Long Thin Networks
Our goal is to identify a TCP that works for all users, including users of long thin networks. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2756 - Hyper Text Caching Protocol (HTCP/0.0)
This document describes HTCP, a protocol for discovering HTTP caches and cached data, managing sets of HTTP caches, and monitoring cache activity. This is an experimental protocol, one among several proposals to perform these functions. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC2755 - Security Negotiation for WebNFS
This document describes a protocol for a WebNFS client (RFC2054) to negotiate the desired security mechanism with a WebNFS server (RFC2055) before the WebNFS client falls back to the MOUNT v3 protocol (RFC1813). This document is provided so that people can write compatible implementations. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2754 - RPS IANA Issues
RPS Security requires certain RPSL objects in the IRR to be hierarchically delegated. The set of objects that are at the root of this hierarchy needs to be created and digitally signed by IANA. This paper presents these seed objects and lists operations required from IANA. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2753 - A Framework for Policy-based Admission Control
This document is concerned with specifying a framework for providing policy-based control over admission control decisions. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2752 - Identity Representation for RSVP
This document describes the representation of identity information in POLICY_DATA object for supporting policy based admission control in RSVP. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2751 - Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element
This document describes a preemption priority policy element for use by signaled policy based admission protocols (such as RSVP and COPS). [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2750 - RSVP Extensions for Policy Control
This memo presents a set of extensions for supporting generic policy based admission control in RSVP. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2749 - COPS usage for RSVP
This document describes usage directives for supporting COPS policy services in RSVP environments. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2748 - The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol
This document describes a simple client/server model for supporting policy control over QoS signaling protocols. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2747 - RSVP Cryptographic Authentication
This document describes the format and use of RSVP's INTEGRITY object to provide hop-by-hop integrity and authentication of RSVP messages. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2746 - RSVP Operation Over IP Tunnels
This document describes an approach for providing RSVP protocol services over IP tunnels. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2745 - RSVP Diagnostic Messages
This document specifies the RSVP diagnostic facility, which allows a user to collect information about the RSVP state along a path. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2744 - Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings
This document specifies C language bindings for Version 2, Update 1 of the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), which is described at a language-independent conceptual level in RFC 2743. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2743 - Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1
This memo obsoletes [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2742 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes objects managing SNMP agents that use the Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2741 - Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1
This memo defines a standardized framework for extensible SNMP agents. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2740 - OSPF for IPv6
This document describes the modifications to OSPF to support version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2739 - Calendar Attributes for vCard and LDAP
This memo defines three mechanisms for obtaining a URI to a user's calendar and free/busy time. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2738 - Corrections to "A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets"
In RFC 2533, "A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets", an expression format is presented for describing media feature capabilities using simple media feature tags. This memo contains two corrections to that specification: one fixes an error in the formal syntax specification, and the other fixes an error in the rules for reducing feature comparison predicates. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2737 - Entity MIB (Version 2)
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (M for use with network management protocols in the Internet communi In particular, it describes managed objects used for managing multiple logical and physical entities managed by a single SNMP agent. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2736 - Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications
This document provides general guidelines aimed at assisting the authors of RTP Payload Format specifications in deciding on good formats. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
RFC2735 - NHRP Support for Virtual Private Networks
The NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) is used to determine the NBMA subnetwork addresses of the "NBMA next hop" towards a public internetworking layer address. This document describes the enhancements necessary to enable NHRP to perform the same function for private internetworking layer addresses available within the framework of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service on a shared NBMA network. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2734 - IPv4 over IEEE 1394
This document specifies how to use IEEE Std 1394-1995, Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus (and its supplements), for the transport of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) datagrams; it defines the necessary methods, data structures and codes for that purpose. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2733 - An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error Correction
This document specifies a payload format for generic forward error correction of media encapsulated in RTP. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's
This document defines the format for literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's for implementation in World Wide Web browsers. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2731 - Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML
The Dublin Core is a small set of metadata elements for describing information resources. This document explains how these elements are expressed using the META and LINK tags of HTML. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2730 - Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP)
This document defines a protocol, Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP), that allows hosts to request multicast addresses from multicast address allocation servers. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2729 - Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for Large-scale Multicast Applications
The intention of this memo is to define a classification system for the communication requirements of any large-scale multicast application (LSMA). This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2728 - The Transmission of IP Over the Vertical Blanking Interval of a Television Signal
This document describes a method for broadcasting IP data in a unidirectional manner using the vertical blanking interval of television signals. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2727 - IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees
The process by which the members of the IAB and IESG are selected, confirmed, and recalled is specified. This document is a self- consistent, organized compilation of the process as it was known at the time of publication. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
RFC2726 - PGP Authentication for RIPE Database Updates
This document presents the proposal for a stronger authentication method of the updates of the RIPE database based on digital signatures. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2725 - Routing Policy System Security
The implementation and deployment of a routing policy system must maintain some degree of integrity to be of any operational use. This document addresses the need to assure integrity of the data by providing an authentication and authorization model. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2724 - RTFM: New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement
This document discusses RTFM flows and the attributes which they can have, so as to provide a logical framework for extending the architecture by adding new attributes. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC2723 - SRL: A Language for Describing Traffic Flows and Specifying Actions for Flow Groups
This document describes a language for specifying rulesets, i.e. configuration files which may be loaded into a traffic flow meter so as to specify which traffic flows are measured by the meter, and the information it will store for each flow. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2722 - Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture
This document provides a general framework for describing network traffic flows, presents an architecture for traffic flow measurement and reporting, discusses how this relates to an overall network traffic flow architecture and indicates how it can be used within the Internet. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2721 - RTFM: Applicability Statement
This document provides an overview covering all aspects of Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement, including its area of applicability and its limitations. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2720 - Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB
This document defines a Management Information Base (MIB) for use in controlling an RTFM Traffic Meter, in particular for specifying the flows to be measured. It also provides an efficient mechanism for retrieving flow data from the meter using SNMP. Security issues concerning the operation of traffic meters are summarised. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
This document addresses the need to distribute data over multiple repositories and delegate authority for data subsets to other repositories without compromising the authorization model established in Routing Policy System Security RFC. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2768 - Network Policy and Services: A Report of a Workshop on Middleware
An ad hoc middleware workshop was held at the International Center for Advanced Internet Research in December 1998. The need for a more organized framework for middleware R&D was recognized, and a list of specific topics needing further work was identified. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2767 - Dual Stack Hosts using the "Bump-In-the-Stack" Technique (BIS)
This memo proposes a mechanism of dual stack hosts using the technique called "Bump-in-the-Stack" in the IP security area. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2766 - Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation (NAT-PT)
This document specifies an IPv4-to-IPv6 transition mechanism, in addition to those already specified. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2765 - Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT)
This document specifies a transition mechanism algorithm in addition to the mechanisms already specified. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2764 - A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks
This document describes a framework for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) running across IP backbones. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2763 - Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for IS-IS
This document defines a new TLV which allows the IS-IS routers to flood their name to system ID mapping information across the IS-IS network. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2762 - Sampling of the Group Membership in RTP
This document discusses mechanisms for sampling of this group membership table in order to reduce the memory requirements. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC2761 - Terminology for ATM Benchmarking
This memo discusses and defines terms associated with performance benchmarking tests and the results of these tests in the context of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) based switching devices. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2760 - Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites
This document outlines possible TCP enhancements that may allow TCP to better utilize the available bandwidth provided by networks containing satellite links. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2759 - Microsoft PPP CHAP Extensions, Version 2
This document describes version two of Microsoft's PPP CHAP dialect (MS-CHAP-V2). MS-CHAP-V2 is similar to, but incompatible with, MS-CHAP version one (MS-CHAP-V1). This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2758 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Service Level Agreements Performance Monitoring
This memo defines a Management Information Base (MIB) for performance monitoring of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) defined via policy definitions. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC2757 - Long Thin Networks
Our goal is to identify a TCP that works for all users, including users of long thin networks. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2756 - Hyper Text Caching Protocol (HTCP/0.0)
This document describes HTCP, a protocol for discovering HTTP caches and cached data, managing sets of HTTP caches, and monitoring cache activity. This is an experimental protocol, one among several proposals to perform these functions. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC2755 - Security Negotiation for WebNFS
This document describes a protocol for a WebNFS client (RFC2054) to negotiate the desired security mechanism with a WebNFS server (RFC2055) before the WebNFS client falls back to the MOUNT v3 protocol (RFC1813). This document is provided so that people can write compatible implementations. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2754 - RPS IANA Issues
RPS Security requires certain RPSL objects in the IRR to be hierarchically delegated. The set of objects that are at the root of this hierarchy needs to be created and digitally signed by IANA. This paper presents these seed objects and lists operations required from IANA. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2753 - A Framework for Policy-based Admission Control
This document is concerned with specifying a framework for providing policy-based control over admission control decisions. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2752 - Identity Representation for RSVP
This document describes the representation of identity information in POLICY_DATA object for supporting policy based admission control in RSVP. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2751 - Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element
This document describes a preemption priority policy element for use by signaled policy based admission protocols (such as RSVP and COPS). [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2750 - RSVP Extensions for Policy Control
This memo presents a set of extensions for supporting generic policy based admission control in RSVP. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2749 - COPS usage for RSVP
This document describes usage directives for supporting COPS policy services in RSVP environments. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2748 - The COPS (Common Open Policy Service) Protocol
This document describes a simple client/server model for supporting policy control over QoS signaling protocols. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2747 - RSVP Cryptographic Authentication
This document describes the format and use of RSVP's INTEGRITY object to provide hop-by-hop integrity and authentication of RSVP messages. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2746 - RSVP Operation Over IP Tunnels
This document describes an approach for providing RSVP protocol services over IP tunnels. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2745 - RSVP Diagnostic Messages
This document specifies the RSVP diagnostic facility, which allows a user to collect information about the RSVP state along a path. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2744 - Generic Security Service API Version 2 : C-bindings
This document specifies C language bindings for Version 2, Update 1 of the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), which is described at a language-independent conceptual level in RFC 2743. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2743 - Generic Security Service Application Program Interface Version 2, Update 1
This memo obsoletes [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2742 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Extensible SNMP Agents
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB) for use with network management protocols in the Internet community. In particular, it describes objects managing SNMP agents that use the Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2741 - Agent Extensibility (AgentX) Protocol Version 1
This memo defines a standardized framework for extensible SNMP agents. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2740 - OSPF for IPv6
This document describes the modifications to OSPF to support version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6). [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2739 - Calendar Attributes for vCard and LDAP
This memo defines three mechanisms for obtaining a URI to a user's calendar and free/busy time. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2738 - Corrections to "A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets"
In RFC 2533, "A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets", an expression format is presented for describing media feature capabilities using simple media feature tags. This memo contains two corrections to that specification: one fixes an error in the formal syntax specification, and the other fixes an error in the rules for reducing feature comparison predicates. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2737 - Entity MIB (Version 2)
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (M for use with network management protocols in the Internet communi In particular, it describes managed objects used for managing multiple logical and physical entities managed by a single SNMP agent. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2736 - Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications
This document provides general guidelines aimed at assisting the authors of RTP Payload Format specifications in deciding on good formats. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
RFC2735 - NHRP Support for Virtual Private Networks
The NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP) is used to determine the NBMA subnetwork addresses of the "NBMA next hop" towards a public internetworking layer address. This document describes the enhancements necessary to enable NHRP to perform the same function for private internetworking layer addresses available within the framework of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service on a shared NBMA network. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2734 - IPv4 over IEEE 1394
This document specifies how to use IEEE Std 1394-1995, Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus (and its supplements), for the transport of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) datagrams; it defines the necessary methods, data structures and codes for that purpose. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2733 - An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error Correction
This document specifies a payload format for generic forward error correction of media encapsulated in RTP. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2732 - Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's
This document defines the format for literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's for implementation in World Wide Web browsers. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2731 - Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML
The Dublin Core is a small set of metadata elements for describing information resources. This document explains how these elements are expressed using the META and LINK tags of HTML. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2730 - Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP)
This document defines a protocol, Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP), that allows hosts to request multicast addresses from multicast address allocation servers. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2729 - Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for Large-scale Multicast Applications
The intention of this memo is to define a classification system for the communication requirements of any large-scale multicast application (LSMA). This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2728 - The Transmission of IP Over the Vertical Blanking Interval of a Television Signal
This document describes a method for broadcasting IP data in a unidirectional manner using the vertical blanking interval of television signals. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2727 - IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees
The process by which the members of the IAB and IESG are selected, confirmed, and recalled is specified. This document is a self- consistent, organized compilation of the process as it was known at the time of publication. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
RFC2726 - PGP Authentication for RIPE Database Updates
This document presents the proposal for a stronger authentication method of the updates of the RIPE database based on digital signatures. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2725 - Routing Policy System Security
The implementation and deployment of a routing policy system must maintain some degree of integrity to be of any operational use. This document addresses the need to assure integrity of the data by providing an authentication and authorization model. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC2724 - RTFM: New Attributes for Traffic Flow Measurement
This document discusses RTFM flows and the attributes which they can have, so as to provide a logical framework for extending the architecture by adding new attributes. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC2723 - SRL: A Language for Describing Traffic Flows and Specifying Actions for Flow Groups
This document describes a language for specifying rulesets, i.e. configuration files which may be loaded into a traffic flow meter so as to specify which traffic flows are measured by the meter, and the information it will store for each flow. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2722 - Traffic Flow Measurement: Architecture
This document provides a general framework for describing network traffic flows, presents an architecture for traffic flow measurement and reporting, discusses how this relates to an overall network traffic flow architecture and indicates how it can be used within the Internet. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2721 - RTFM: Applicability Statement
This document provides an overview covering all aspects of Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement, including its area of applicability and its limitations. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
RFC2720 - Traffic Flow Measurement: Meter MIB
This document defines a Management Information Base (MIB) for use in controlling an RTFM Traffic Meter, in particular for specifying the flows to be measured. It also provides an efficient mechanism for retrieving flow data from the meter using SNMP. Security issues concerning the operation of traffic meters are summarised. [STANDARDS-TRACK]