RFC Abstracts

RFC1987 - Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1
The General Switch Management Protocol (GSMP), is a general purpose protocol to control an ATM switch. GSMP allows a controller to establish and release connections across the switch; add and delete leaves on a point-to-multipoint connection; manage switch ports; request configuration information; and request statistics. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1986 - Experiments with a Simple File Transfer Protocol for Radio Links using Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ETFTP)
This document is a description of the Enhanced Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ETFTP). This protocol is an experimental implementation of the NETwork BLock Transfer Protocol (NETBLT), RFC 998 [1], as a file transfer application program. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC1985 - SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting
This memo defines an extension to the SMTP service whereby an SMTP client and server may interact to give the server an opportunity to start the processing of its queues for messages to go to a given host. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1984 - IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the bodies which oversee architecture and standards for the Internet, are concerned by the need for increased protection of international commercial transactions on the Internet, and by the need to offer all Internet users an adequate degree of privacy. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1983 - Internet Users' Glossary
There are many networking glossaries in existence. This glossary concentrates on terms which are specific to the Internet. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1982 - Serial Number Arithmetic
The DNS has long relied upon serial number arithmetic, a concept which has never really been defined, certainly not in an IETF document, though which has been widely understood. This memo supplies the missing definition. It is intended to update RFC1034 and RFC1035. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1981 - Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
This document describes Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6. It is largely derived from RFC 1191, which describes Path MTU Discovery for IP version 4. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1980 - A Proposed Extension to HTML : Client-Side Image Maps
The markup language known as "HTML/2.0" provides for image maps. Image maps are document elements which allow clicking different areas of an image to reference different network resources, as specified by Uniform Identifier (URIs). The image map capability in HTML/2.0 is limited in several ways, such as the restriction that it only works with documents served via the "HTTP" protocol, and the lack of a viable fallback for users of text-only browsers. This document specifies an extension to the HTML language, referred to as "Client- Side Image Maps," which resolves these limitations.
RFC1979 - PPP Deflate Protocol
This document describes the use of the PPP Deflate compression protocol for compressing PPP encapsulated packets. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1978 - PPP Predictor Compression Protocol
This document describes the use of the Predictor data compression algorithm for compressing PPP encapsulated packets. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1977 - PPP BSD Compression Protocol
This document describes the use of the Unix Compress compression protocol for compressing PPP encapsulated packets. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1976 - PPP for Data Compression in Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DCE)
This document defines a specific set of parameters for these protocols and an LCP extension to define a standard way of using PPP for data compression of serial data in Data Circuit-Terminating Equipment (DCE). This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1975 - PPP Magnalink Variable Resource Compression
The Magnalink Variable Resource Compression Algorithm (MVRCA) allows a wide range of interoperable compression implementations whose performance characteristics are a function of available CPU and memory resources. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1974 - PPP Stac LZS Compression Protocol
This document describes the use of the Stac LZS data compression algorithm, with single or multiple compression histories, for compressing PPP encapsulated packets. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1973 - PPP in Frame Relay
This document describes the use of Frame Relay for framing PPP encapsulated packets. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1972 - A Method for the Transmission of IPv6 Packets over Ethernet Networks
This memo specifies the frame format for transmission of IPv6 [IPV6] packets and the method of forming IPv6 link-local addresses on Ethernet networks. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1971 - IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
This document specifies the steps a host takes in deciding how to autoconfigure its interfaces in IP version 6. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1970 - Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
This document specifies the Neighbor Discovery protocol for IP Version 6. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1969 - The PPP DES Encryption Protocol (DESE)
This document provides specific details for the use of the DES standard [5, 6] for encrypting PPP encapsulated packets. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1968 - The PPP Encryption Control Protocol (ECP)
This document defines a method for negotiating data encryption over PPP links. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1967 - PPP LZS-DCP Compression Protocol (LZS-DCP)
This document describes the use of the Stac LZS data compression algorithm for compressing PPP encapsulated packets, using a DCP header [6]. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1966 - BGP Route Reflection An alternative to full mesh IBGP
This document describes the use and design of a method known as "Route Reflection" to alleviate the the need for "full mesh" IBGP. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC1965 - Autonomous System Confederations for BGP
This document describes an extension to BGP which may be used to create a confederation of autonomous systems which is represented as one single autonomous system to BGP peers external to the confederation. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC1964 - The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism
This specification defines protocols, procedures, and conventions to be employed by peers implementing the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (as specified in RFCs 1508 and 1509) when using Kerberos Version 5 technology (as specified in RFC 1510). [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1963 - PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol (SDTP)
This document describes a new Network level protocol (from the PPP point of view), PPP Serial Data Transport Protocol, that provides encapsulation and an associated control protocol for transporting serial data streams over a PPP link. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1962 - The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP)
This document defines a method for negotiating data compression over PPP links. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1961 - GSS-API Authentication Method for SOCKS Version 5
This document provides the specification for the SOCKS V5 GSS-API authentication protocol, and defines a GSS-API-based encapsulation for provision of integrity, authentication and optional confidentiality. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1960 - A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) [1] defines a network representation of a search filter transmitted to an LDAP server. Some applications may find it useful to have a common way of representing these search filters in a human-readable form. This document defines a human-readable string format for representing LDAP search filters. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1959 - An LDAP URL Format
This document describes a format for an LDAP Uniform Resource Locator which will allow Internet clients to have direct access to the LDAP protocol. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet
The Internet and its architecture have grown in evolutionary fashion from modest beginnings, rather than from a Grand Plan. While this process of evolution is one of the main reasons for the technology's success, it nevertheless seems useful to record a snapshot of the current principles of the Internet architecture. This is intended for general guidance and general interest, and is in no way intended to be a formal or invariant reference model. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1957 - Some Observations on Implementations of the Post Office Protocol (POP3)
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1956 - Registration in the MIL Domain
This RFC describes the policy for the registration of second level domains under the ".MIL" domain. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1955 - New Scheme for Internet Routing and Addressing (ENCAPS) for IPNG
This paper proposes a new scheme which I believe is a good medium term solution to the routing and address problems of the internet. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1954 - Transmission of Flow Labelled IPv4 on ATM Data Links Ipsilon Version 1.0
This document specifies the manner for transmitting IPv4 datagrams over an ATM data link, both in a default manner and in the presence of flow labelling via Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol [IFMP]. This document provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1953 - Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol Specification for IPv4 Version 1.0
The Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol (IFMP), is a protocol for allowing a node to instruct an adjacent node to attach a layer 2 label to a specified IP flow. This document provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1952 - GZIP file format specification version 4.3
This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that is compatible with the widely used GZIP utility. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1951 - DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
This specification defines a lossless compressed data format that compresses data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding, with efficiency comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1950 - ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3
This specification defines a lossless compressed data format. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1949 - Scalable Multicast Key Distribution
This memo provides a scalable solution to the multicast key distribution problem. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC1948 - Defending Against Sequence Number Attacks
IP spoofing attacks based on sequence number spoofing have become a serious threat on the Internet (CERT Advisory CA-95:01). While ubiquitous crypgraphic authentication is the right answer, we propose a simple modification to TCP implementations that should be a very substantial block to the current wave of attacks. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1947 - Greek Character Encoding for Electronic Mail Messages
This document describes a standard encoding for electronic mail [RFC822] containing Greek text and provides implementation guide-lines. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1946 - Native ATM Support for ST2+
This memo describes a working implementation which enables applications to directly invoke ATM services in the following environments: ATM to internet, internet to ATM, and internet to internet across ATM. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1944 - Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices
This document discusses and defines a number of tests that may be used to describe the performance characteristics of a network interconnecting device. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1943 - Building an X.500 Directory Service in the US
This document provides definition and recommends considerations that must be undertaken to operate a X.500 Directory Service in the United States. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1942 - HTML Tables
This specification extends HTML to support a wide variety of tables. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
RFC1941 - Frequently Asked Questions for Schools
The goal of this FYI document, produced by the Internet School Networking (ISN) group in the User Services Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), is to act as an introduction to the Internet for faculty, administration, and other school personnel in primary and secondary schools. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1940 - Source Demand Routing: Packet Format and Forwarding Specification (Version 1)
The purpose of SDRP is to support source-initiated selection of routes to complement the route selection provided by existing routing protocols for both inter-domain and intra-domain routes. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
RFC1939 - Post Office Protocol - Version 3
The Post Office Protocol - Version 3 (POP3) is intended to permit a workstation to dynamically access a maildrop on a server host in a useful fashion. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
RFC1938 - A One-Time Password System
This document describes a one-time password authentication system (OTP). [STANDARDS-TRACK]