BCP 37

RFC 2780

"IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers", March 2000

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2780.txt
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Status:

BEST CURRENT PRACTICE

Updated by:

RFC 4443, RFC 5237, RFC 5771, RFC 6335

Authors:

S. Bradner
V. Paxson

Stream:

[Legacy]

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Abstract

This memo provides guidance for the IANA to use in assigning parameters for fields in the IPv4, IPv6, ICMP, UDP and TCP protocol headers. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.