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IANA RFCs (188)

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  • RFC 9847: IANA Registry Updates for TLS and DTLS

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9876: Updates to the IANA Registration Procedures for Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Content-Formats

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9790: IANA Registry and Processing Recommendations for the First Nibble Following a Label Stack

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9778: BCP 57: IANA Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocols

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 9756: Update to the IANA Path Communication Element Protocol (PCEP) Numbers Registration Procedures and the Allowance of Experimental Error Codes

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9748: Updating the NTP Registries

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9710: Simple Fixes to the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Entities IANA Registry

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9542: BCP 141: IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol and Documentation Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 9519: Update to the IANA SSH Protocol Parameters Registry Requirements

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9122: IANA Registry for Sieve Actions

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9371: Registration Procedures for Private Enterprise Numbers (PENs)

    Informational
  • RFC 9304: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP): Shared Extension Message and IANA Registry for Packet Type Allocations

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9281: BCP 11: Entities Involved in the IETF Standards Process

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 9184: BGP Extended Community Registries Update

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9157: Revised IANA Considerations for DNSSEC

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9120: Nameservers for the Address and Routing Parameter Area ("arpa") Domain

    Informational
  • RFC 9108: YANG Types for DNS Classes and Resource Record Types

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 9041: Updating the MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs) Ping Parameters IANA Registry

    Proposed Standard
  • Proposed Standard

    Obsoleted by RFC 9552

  • RFC 8726: How Requests for IANA Action Will Be Handled on the Independent Stream

    Informational
  • RFC 8720: Principles for Operation of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Registries

    Informational
  • RFC 8722: Defining the Role and Function of IETF Protocol Parameter Registry Operators

    Informational
  • RFC 8688: A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Response Code for Rejected Calls

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 8602: Update to the Telephony Routing over IP (TRIP) IANA Registry Rules regarding Postal Addresses

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 8436: Update to IANA Registration Procedures for Pool 3 Values in the Differentiated Services Field Codepoints (DSCP) Registry

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 8447: IANA Registry Updates for TLS and DTLS

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 8411: IANA Registration for the Cryptographic Algorithm Object Identifier Range

    Informational
  • RFC 8425: IANA Considerations for IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Prefix Information Option Flags

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 8356: Experimental Codepoint Allocation for the Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 8190: BCP 153: Updates to the Special-Purpose IP Address Registries

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 8126: BCP 26: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 8101: IANA Registration of New Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Resource-Priority Namespace for Mission Critical Push To Talk Service

    Informational
  • RFC 8113: Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP): Shared Extension Message & IANA Registry for Packet Type Allocations

    Experimental

    Obsoleted by RFC 9304

  • RFC 7958: DNSSEC Trust Anchor Publication for the Root Zone

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 9718

  • RFC 7979: Response to the IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) Request for Proposals on the IANA Protocol Parameters Registries

    Informational
  • RFC 7892: IANA Allocation Procedures for the GMPLS OTN Signal Type Registry

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 7666: Management Information Base for Virtual Machines Controlled by a Hypervisor

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 7605: BCP 165: Recommendations on Using Assigned Transport Port Numbers

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 7537: IANA Registries for LSP Ping Code Points

    Proposed Standard

    Obsoleted by RFC 8029

  • RFC 7500: Principles for Operation of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Registries

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 8720

  • RFC 7461: Energy Object Context MIB

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 7385: IANA Registry for P-Multicast Service Interface (PMSI) Tunnel Type Code Points

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 7319: BCP 191: IANA Considerations for Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Code Points

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 7280: IANA Guidance for Managing the Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) Next-Header Registry

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 7214: Moving Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) IANA Registries to a New Registry

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 7249: Internet Numbers Registries

    Informational
  • RFC 7224: IANA Interface Type YANG Module

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 7153: IANA Registries for BGP Extended Communities

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 7116: Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP), Compressed Bundle Header Encoding (CBHE), and Bundle Protocol IANA Registries

    Informational
  • RFC 7120: BCP 100: Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 7042: IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol and Documentation Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 9542

  • RFC 7036: Object Identifier Registry for the Long-Term Archive and Notary Services (LTANS) Working Group

    Informational
  • RFC 7013: BCP 184: Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information Elements

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 7020: The Internet Numbers Registry System

    Informational
  • RFC 6890: BCP 153: Special-Purpose IP Address Registries

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 6918: Formally Deprecating Some ICMPv4 Message Types

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6895: BCP 42: Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 6878: IANA Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) "Priority" Header Field

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6725: DNS Security (DNSSEC) DNSKEY Algorithm IANA Registry Updates

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6711: An IANA Registry for Level of Assurance (LoA) Profiles

    Informational
  • RFC 6685: Expert Review for Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) Extensions in IANA XML Registry

    Proposed Standard

    Obsoleted by RFC 7970

  • RFC 6623: IANA Registry for MEDIACTRL Interactive Voice Response Control Package

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6598: BCP 153: IANA-Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 6580: IANA Registries for the Remote Direct Data Placement (RDDP) Protocols

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6491: Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Objects Issued by IANA

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6466: IANA Registration of the 'image' Media Type for the Session Description Protocol (SDP)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6359: Datatracker Extensions to Include IANA and RFC Editor Processing Information

    Informational
  • RFC 6309: IANA Rules for MIKEY (Multimedia Internet KEYing)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6335: BCP 165: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 6328: BCP 164: IANA Considerations for Network Layer Protocol Identifiers

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 6336: IANA Registry for Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) Options

    Proposed Standard

    Obsoleted by RFC 8839

  • RFC 6305: I'm Being Attacked by PRISONER.IANA.ORG!

    Informational
  • RFC 6315: IANA Registration for Enumservice 'iax'

    Informational
  • RFC 6255: Delay-Tolerant Networking Bundle Protocol IANA Registries

    Informational
  • RFC 6254: Request to Move RFC 2754 to Historic Status

    Informational
  • RFC 6233: IS-IS Registry Extension for Purges

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6166: A Registry for PIM Message Types

    Proposed Standard

    Obsoleted by RFC 8736

  • RFC 6195: Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 6895

  • RFC 6117: IANA Registration of Enumservices: Guide, Template, and IANA Considerations

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6118: Update of Legacy IANA Registrations of Enumservices

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 6064: SDP and RTSP Extensions Defined for 3GPP Packet-Switched Streaming Service and Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service

    Informational
  • RFC 6075: The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) Vendor Subtrees Registry

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5748: IANA Registry Update for Support of the SEED Cipher Algorithm in Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY)

    Informational
  • RFC 5871: IANA Allocation Guidelines for the IPv6 Routing Header

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5872: IANA Rules for the Protocol for Carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5771: BCP 51: IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 5774: BCP 154: Considerations for Civic Addresses in the Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO): Guidelines and IANA Registry Definition

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 5457: IANA Considerations for IAX: Inter-Asterisk eXchange Version 2

    Informational
  • RFC 5665: IANA Considerations for Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Network Identifiers and Universal Address Formats

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5736: IANA IPv4 Special Purpose Address Registry

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 6890

  • RFC 5719: Updated IANA Considerations for Diameter Command Code Allocations

    Proposed Standard

    Obsoleted by RFC 6733

  • RFC 5333: IANA Registration of Enumservices for Internet Calendaring

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5601: Pseudowire (PW) Management Information Base (MIB)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5494: IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5509: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Registration of Instant Messaging and Presence DNS SRV RRs for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5498: IANA Allocations for Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) Protocols

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5478: IANA Registration of New Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Resource-Priority Namespaces

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5410: Multimedia Internet KEYing (MIKEY) General Extension Payload for Open Mobile Alliance BCAST 1.0

    Informational
  • RFC 5395: Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 6195

  • RFC 5341: The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) tel Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter Registry

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5350: IANA Considerations for the IPv4 and IPv6 Router Alert Options

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5342: IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 7042

  • RFC 5278: IANA Registration of Enumservices for Voice and Video Messaging

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 8126

  • RFC 5159: Session Description Protocol (SDP) Attributes for Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Broadcast (BCAST) Service and Content Protection

    Informational
  • RFC 5237: BCP 37: IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 4969: IANA Registration for vCard Enumservice

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4979: IANA Registration for Enumservice 'XMPP'

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4940: BCP 130: IANA Considerations for OSPF

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 4937: IANA Considerations for PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

    Informational
  • RFC 4836: Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4802: Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Traffic Engineering Management Information Base

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4773: Administration of the IANA Special Purpose IPv6 Address Block

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 6890

  • RFC 4769: IANA Registration for an Enumservice Containing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Signaling Information

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4645: Initial Language Subtag Registry

    Informational
  • RFC 4569: Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Registration of the Message Media Feature Tag

    Informational
  • RFC 4520: BCP 64: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 4548: Internet Code Point (ICP) Assignments for NSAP Addresses

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4446: BCP 116: IANA Allocations for Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3)

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 4415: IANA Registration for Enumservice Voice

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4355: IANA Registration for Enumservices email, fax, mms, ems, and sms

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4250: The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Assigned Numbers

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4147: Proposed Changes to the Format of the IANA IPv6 Registry

    Informational
  • RFC 4148: BCP 108: IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Metrics Registry

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 6248

  • RFC 4065: Instructions for Seamoby and Experimental Mobility Protocol IANA Allocations

    Experimental
  • RFC 4021: Registration of Mail and MIME Header Fields

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 4020: Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 7120

  • RFC 4002: IANA Registration for Enumservice 'web' and 'ft'

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 3968: BCP 98: The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Header Field Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 3969: BCP 99: The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 3877: Alarm Management Information Base (MIB)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 3818: BCP 88: IANA Considerations for the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 3808: IANA Charset MIB

    Informational
  • RFC 3737: IANA Guidelines for the Registry of Remote Monitoring (RMON) MIB modules

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 3692: BCP 82: Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 3589: Diameter Command Codes for Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 5

    Informational
  • RFC 3575: IANA Considerations for RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service)

    Proposed Standard
  • RFC 3474: Documentation of IANA assignments for Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Usage and Extensions for Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON)

    Informational
  • RFC 3475: Documentation of IANA assignments for Constraint-Based LSP setup using LDP (CR-LDP) Extensions for Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON)

    Informational
  • RFC 3476: Documentation of IANA Assignments for Label Distribution Protocol (LDP), Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP), and Resource ReSerVation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions for Optical UNI Signaling

    Informational
  • RFC 3438: BCP 68: Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations Update

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 3383: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 4520

  • RFC 3228: IANA Considerations for IPv4 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 9778

  • RFC 3232: Assigned Numbers: RFC 1700 is Replaced by an On-line Database

    Informational
  • RFC 3171: IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 5771

  • RFC 2978: BCP 19: IANA Charset Registration Procedures

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 2929: Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 5395

  • RFC 2939: BCP 43: Procedures and IANA Guidelines for Definition of New DHCP Options and Message Types

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 2860: Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Technical Work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

    Informational
  • Best Current Practice
  • RFC 2754: RPS IANA Issues

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 6254

  • RFC 2434: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs

    Best Current Practice

    Obsoleted by RFC 5226

  • RFC 2468: I REMEMBER IANA

    Informational
  • RFC 2278: IANA Charset Registration Procedures

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 2978

  • RFC 2172: MAPOS Version 1 Assigned Numbers

    Informational
  • RFC 2036: Observations on the use of Components of the Class A Address Space within the Internet

    Historic
  • RFC 1917: BCP 4: An Appeal to the Internet Community to Return Unused IP Networks (Prefixes) to the IANA

    Best Current Practice
  • RFC 1881: IPv6 Address Allocation Management

    Informational
  • RFC 1816: U.S. Government Internet Domain Names

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 2146

  • RFC 1811: U.S. Government Internet Domain Names

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 1816

  • RFC 1700: Assigned Numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 3232

  • RFC 1467: Status of CIDR Deployment in the Internet

    Historic
  • RFC 1366: Guidelines for Management of IP Address Space

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 1466

  • RFC 1367: Schedule for IP Address Space Management Guidelines

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 1467

  • RFC 1340: Assigned Numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 1700

  • Informational
  • RFC 1166: Internet numbers

    Informational
  • RFC 1060: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 1340

  • RFC 1117: Internet numbers

    Informational

    Obsoleted by RFC 1166

  • RFC 1062: Internet numbers

    Unknown

    Obsoleted by RFC 1117, RFC 1166

  • RFC 1020: Internet numbers

    Unknown

    Obsoleted by RFC 1062, RFC 1117, RFC 1166

  • RFC 1010: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 1060

  • RFC 997: Internet numbers

    Unknown

    Obsoleted by RFC 1020, RFC 1117

  • RFC 990: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 1010

  • RFC 960: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 990

  • RFC 943: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 960

  • RFC 923: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 943

  • RFC 900: Assigned Numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 923

  • RFC 870: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 900

  • RFC 820: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 870

  • RFC 790: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 820

  • RFC 776: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 790

  • RFC 770: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 776

  • RFC 762: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 770

  • RFC 758: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 762

  • RFC 755: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 758

  • RFC 750: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 755

  • RFC 739: Assigned numbers

    Historic

    Obsoleted by RFC 750

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