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6881 Best Current Practice for Communications Services in Support of
     Emergency Calling. B. Rosen, J. Polk. March 2013. (Format: TXT=63007
     bytes) (Also BCP0181) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6859 Update to RFC 3777 to Clarify Nominating Committee Eligibility of
     IETF Leadership. B. Leiba. January 2013. (Format: TXT=5619 bytes)
     (Updates RFC3777) (Also BCP0010) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6853 DHCPv6 Redundancy Deployment Considerations. J. Brzozowski, J.
     Tremblay, J. Chen, T. Mrugalski. February 2013. (Format: TXT=34209
     bytes) (Also BCP0180) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6838 Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures. N. Freed,
     J. Klensin, T. Hansen. January 2013. (Format: TXT=72942 bytes)
     (Obsoletes RFC4288) (Also BCP0013) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6576 IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Standard Advancement Testing. R.
     Geib, Ed., A. Morton, R. Fardid, A. Steinmitz. March 2012. (Format:
     TXT=84447 bytes) (Also BCP0176) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6557 Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone Database. E. Lear, P.
     Eggert. February 2012. (Format: TXT=18469 bytes) (Also BCP0175)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6540 IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable Nodes. W. George, C.
     Donley, C. Liljenstolpe, L. Howard. April 2012. (Format: TXT=12883
     bytes) (Also BCP0177) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6472 Recommendation for Not Using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP. W.
     Kumari, K. Sriram. December 2011. (Format: TXT=10673 bytes) (Also
     BCP0172) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6441 Time to Remove Filters for Previously Unallocated IPv4 /8s. L.
     Vegoda. November 2011. (Format: TXT=8646 bytes) (Also BCP0171)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6410 Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels. R. Housley,
     D. Crocker, E. Burger. October 2011. (Format: TXT=12619 bytes)
     (Updates RFC2026) (Also BCP0009) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6398 IP Router Alert Considerations and Usage. F. Le Faucheur, Ed..
     October 2011. (Format: TXT=44914 bytes) (Updates RFC2113, RFC2711)
     (Also BCP0168) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6390 Guidelines for Considering New Performance Metric Development. A.
     Clark, B. Claise. October 2011. (Format: TXT=49930 bytes) (Also
     BCP0170) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6377 DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Mailing Lists. M.
     Kucherawy. September 2011. (Format: TXT=61792 bytes) (Also BCP0167)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6365 Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF. P. Hoffman,
     J. Klensin. September 2011. (Format: TXT=103155 bytes) (Obsoletes
     RFC3536) (Also BCP0166) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6328 IANA Considerations for Network Layer Protocol Identifiers. D.
     Eastlake 3rd. July 2011. (Format: TXT=16123 bytes) (Also BCP0164)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6303 Locally Served DNS Zones. M. Andrews. July 2011. (Format:
     TXT=22503 bytes) (Also BCP0163) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6302 Logging Recommendations for Internet-Facing Servers. A. Durand,
     I. Gashinsky, D. Lee, S. Sheppard. June 2011. (Format: TXT=10039
     bytes) (Also BCP0162) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6177 IPv6 Address Assignment to End Sites. T. Narten, G. Huston, L.
     Roberts. March 2011. (Format: TXT=21231 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3177)
     (Also BCP0157) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

6056 Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization. M.
     Larsen, F. Gont. January 2011. (Format: TXT=63913 bytes) (Also
     BCP0156) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5855 Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse Zones. J. Abley, T.
     Manderson. May 2010. (Format: TXT=23027 bytes) (Also BCP0155)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5771 IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments. M.
     Cotton, L. Vegoda, D. Meyer. March 2010. (Format: TXT=22239 bytes)
     (Obsoletes RFC3138, RFC3171) (Updates RFC2780) (Also BCP0051)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5742 IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream
     Submissions. H. Alvestrand, R. Housley. December 2009. (Format:
     TXT=21067 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3932) (Updates RFC2026, RFC3710) (Also
     BCP0092) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5735 Special Use IPv4 Addresses. M. Cotton, L. Vegoda. January 2010.
     (Format: TXT=20369 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3330) (Updated by RFC6598)
     (Also BCP0153) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5680 The Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing
     Nominees. S. Dawkins, Ed.. October 2009. (Format: TXT=14296 bytes)
     (Updates RFC3777) (Also BCP0010) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5657 Guidance on Interoperation and Implementation Reports for
     Advancement to Draft Standard. L. Dusseault, R. Sparks. September
     2009. (Format: TXT=29327 bytes) (Updates RFC2026) (Also BCP0009)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5646 Tags for Identifying Languages. A. Phillips, Ed., M. Davis, Ed..
     September 2009. (Format: TXT=208592 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC4646) (Also
     BCP0047) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5633 Nominating Committee Process: Earlier Announcement of Open
     Positions and Solicitation of Volunteers. S. Dawkins, Ed.. August
     2009. (Format: TXT=11117 bytes) (Updates RFC3777) (Also BCP0010)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5589 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Control - Transfer. R.
     Sparks, A. Johnston, Ed., D. Petrie. June 2009. (Format: TXT=119434
     bytes) (Also BCP0149) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5508 NAT Behavioral Requirements for ICMP. P. Srisuresh, B. Ford, S.
     Sivakumar, S. Guha. April 2009. (Format: TXT=67985 bytes) (Also
     BCP0148) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5407 Example Call Flows of Race Conditions in the Session Initiation
     Protocol (SIP). M. Hasebe, J. Koshiko, Y. Suzuki, T. Yoshikawa, P.
     Kyzivat. December 2008. (Format: TXT=120005 bytes) (Also BCP0147)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5406 Guidelines for Specifying the Use of IPsec Version 2. S.
     Bellovin. February 2009. (Format: TXT=30393 bytes) (Also BCP0146)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5405 Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers. L.
     Eggert, G. Fairhurst. November 2008. (Format: TXT=69607 bytes) (Also
     BCP0145) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5383 Deployment Considerations for Lemonade-Compliant Mobile Email. R.
     Gellens. October 2008. (Format: TXT=28290 bytes) (Also BCP0143)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5382 NAT Behavioral Requirements for TCP. S. Guha, Ed., K. Biswas, B.
     Ford, S. Sivakumar, P. Srisuresh. October 2008. (Format: TXT=50306
     bytes) (Also BCP0142) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5378 Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust. S. Bradner, Ed.,
     J. Contreras, Ed.. November 2008. (Format: TXT=37980 bytes)
     (Obsoletes RFC3978, RFC4748) (Updates RFC2026) (Also BCP0078)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5358 Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers in Reflector Attacks. J.
     Damas, F. Neves. October 2008. (Format: TXT=14957 bytes) (Also
     BCP0140) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5249 Templates for Internet-Drafts Containing MIB Modules. D.
     Harrington, Ed.. July 2008. (Format: TXT=7362 bytes) (Also BCP0139)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5248 A Registry for SMTP Enhanced Mail System Status Codes. T. Hansen,
     J. Klensin. June 2008. (Format: TXT=23845 bytes) (Updates RFC3463,
     RFC4468, RFC4954) (Also BCP0138) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5237 IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field. J. Arkko, S.
     Bradner. February 2008. (Format: TXT=9303 bytes) (Updates RFC2780)
     (Also BCP0037) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5226 Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs. T.
     Narten, H. Alvestrand. May 2008. (Format: TXT=66160 bytes) (Obsoletes
     RFC2434) (Also BCP0026) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5068 Email Submission Operations: Access and Accountability
     Requirements. C. Hutzler, D. Crocker, P. Resnick, E. Allman, T.
     Finch. November 2007. (Format: TXT=24481 bytes) (Also BCP0134)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

5033 Specifying New Congestion Control Algorithms. S. Floyd, M.
     Allman. August 2007. (Format: TXT=23469 bytes) (Also BCP0133)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4962 Guidance for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
     Key Management. R. Housley, B. Aboba. July 2007. (Format: TXT=54927
     bytes) (Also BCP0132) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4929 Change Process for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and
     Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Protocols and Procedures. L. Andersson, Ed.,
     A. Farrel, Ed.. June 2007. (Format: TXT=56742 bytes) (Also BCP0129)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4928 Avoiding Equal Cost Multipath Treatment in MPLS Networks. G.
     Swallow, S. Bryant, L. Andersson. June 2007. (Format: TXT=18376
     bytes) (Also BCP0128) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4897 Handling Normative References to Standards-Track Documents. J.
     Klensin, S. Hartman. June 2007. (Format: TXT=13023 bytes) (Updates
     RFC3967) (Also BCP0097) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4879 Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC
     3979. T. Narten. April 2007. (Format: TXT=5570 bytes) (Updates
     RFC3979) (Also BCP0079) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4841 RFC 4181 Update to Recognize the IETF Trust. C. Heard, Ed.. March
     2007. (Format: TXT=4414 bytes) (Updates RFC4181) (Also BCP0111)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4787 Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for
     Unicast UDP. F. Audet, Ed., C. Jennings. January 2007. (Format:
     TXT=68693 bytes) (Also BCP0127) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4775 Procedures for Protocol Extensions and Variations. S. Bradner, B.
     Carpenter, Ed., T. Narten. December 2006. (Format: TXT=32797 bytes)
     (Also BCP0125) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4748 RFC 3978 Update to Recognize the IETF Trust. S. Bradner, Ed..
     October 2006. (Format: TXT=7284 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC5378)
     (Updates RFC3978) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4646 Tags for Identifying Languages. A. Phillips, M. Davis. September
     2006. (Format: TXT=135810 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC3066) (Obsoleted by
     RFC5646) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4611 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Deployment Scenarios.
     M. McBride, J. Meylor, D. Meyer. August 2006. (Format: TXT=33230
     bytes) (Also BCP0121) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4608 Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8. D.
     Meyer, R. Rockell, G. Shepherd. August 2006. (Format: TXT=15030
     bytes) (Also BCP0120) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4579 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Control - Conferencing for
     User Agents. A. Johnston, O. Levin. August 2006. (Format: TXT=96506
     bytes) (Also BCP0119) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4521 Considerations for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
     Extensions. K. Zeilenga. June 2006. (Format: TXT=34585 bytes) (Also
     BCP0118) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4497 Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and
     QSIG. J. Elwell, F. Derks, P. Mourot, O. Rousseau. May 2006. (Format:
     TXT=149992 bytes) (Also BCP0117) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4446 IANA Allocations for Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3). L.
     Martini. April 2006. (Format: TXT=19782 bytes) (Also BCP0116)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4371 BCP 101 Update for IPR Trust. B. Carpenter, Ed., L. Lynch, Ed..
     January 2006. (Format: TXT=6901 bytes) (Updates RFC4071) (Also
     BCP0101) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4288 Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures. N. Freed,
     J. Klensin. December 2005. (Format: TXT=52667 bytes) (Obsoletes
     RFC2048) (Obsoleted by RFC6838) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4222 Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Version 2 Packets and
     Congestion Avoidance. G. Choudhury, Ed.. October 2005. (Format:
     TXT=34132 bytes) (Also BCP0112) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4181 Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of MIB Documents. C. Heard,
     Ed.. September 2005. (Format: TXT=102521 bytes) (Updated by RFC4841)
     (Also BCP0111) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4170 Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP (TCRTP). B. Thompson, T.
     Koren, D. Wing. November 2005. (Format: TXT=48990 bytes) (Also
     BCP0110) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4159 Deprecation of "ip6.int". G. Huston. August 2005. (Format:
     TXT=5353 bytes) (Also BCP0109) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4148 IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Metrics Registry. E. Stephan.
     August 2005. (Format: TXT=23074 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC6248) (Also
     BCP0108) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4086 Randomness Requirements for Security. D. Eastlake 3rd, J.
     Schiller, S. Crocker. June 2005. (Format: TXT=114321 bytes)
     (Obsoletes RFC1750) (Also BCP0106) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4085 Embedding Globally-Routable Internet Addresses Considered
     Harmful. D. Plonka. June 2005. (Format: TXT=22656 bytes) (Also
     BCP0105) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4071 Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA). R.
     Austein, Ed., B. Wijnen, Ed.. April 2005. (Format: TXT=48614 bytes)
     (Updated by RFC4371) (Also BCP0101) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4053 Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETF.
     S. Trowbridge, S. Bradner, F. Baker. April 2005. (Format: TXT=38816
     bytes) (Also BCP0103) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4052 IAB Processes for Management of IETF Liaison Relationships. L.
     Daigle, Ed., Internet Architecture Board. April 2005. (Format:
     TXT=18360 bytes) (Also BCP0102) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

4020 Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points. K.
     Kompella, A. Zinin. February 2005. (Format: TXT=13706 bytes) (Also
     BCP0100) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3968 The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Header Field
     Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). G.
     Camarillo. December 2004. (Format: TXT=20615 bytes) (Updates RFC3427)
     (Also BCP0098) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3967 Clarifying when Standards Track Documents may Refer Normatively
     to Documents at a Lower Level. R. Bush, T. Narten. December 2004.
     (Format: TXT=12251 bytes) (Updated by RFC4897) (Also BCP0097)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3934 Updates to RFC 2418 Regarding the Management of IETF Mailing
     Lists. M. Wasserman. October 2004. (Format: TXT=8488 bytes) (Updates
     RFC2418) (Also BCP0025) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3932 The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: Procedures. H. Alvestrand.
     October 2004. (Format: TXT=17093 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC5742)
     (Updates RFC2026, RFC3710) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3864 Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields. G. Klyne, M.
     Nottingham, J. Mogul. September 2004. (Format: TXT=36231 bytes) (Also
     BCP0090) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3819 Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers. P. Karn, Ed., C.
     Bormann, G. Fairhurst, D. Grossman, R. Ludwig, J. Mahdavi, G.
     Montenegro, J. Touch, L. Wood. July 2004. (Format: TXT=152174 bytes)
     (Also BCP0089) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3785 Use of Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) Metric as a second MPLS
     Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric. F. Le Faucheur, R. Uppili, A.
     Vedrenne, P. Merckx, T. Telkamp. May 2004. (Format: TXT=17475 bytes)
     (Also BCP0087) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3766 Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging
     Symmetric Keys. H. Orman, P. Hoffman. April 2004. (Format: TXT=55939
     bytes) (Also BCP0086) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3725 Best Current Practices for Third Party Call Control (3pcc) in the
     Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). J. Rosenberg, J. Peterson, H.
     Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo. April 2004. (Format: TXT=77308 bytes)
     (Also BCP0085) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3704 Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks. F. Baker, P. Savola.
     March 2004. (Format: TXT=35942 bytes) (Updates RFC2827) (Also
     BCP0084) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3692 Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful. T.
     Narten. January 2004. (Format: TXT=15054 bytes) (Updates RFC2434)
     (Also BCP0082) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3688 The IETF XML Registry. M. Mealling. January 2004. (Format:
     TXT=17325 bytes) (Also BCP0081) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3677 IETF ISOC Board of Trustee Appointment Procedures. L. Daigle,
     Ed., Internet Architecture Board. December 2003. (Format: TXT=13008
     bytes) (Also BCP0077) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3668 Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology. S. Bradner.
     February 2004. (Format: TXT=41365 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC3979)
     (Updates RFC2026, RFC2028) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3666 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Public Switched Telephone
     Network (PSTN) Call Flows. A. Johnston, S. Donovan, R. Sparks, C.
     Cunningham, K. Summers. December 2003. (Format: TXT=200478 bytes)
     (Also BCP0076) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3584 Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the
     Internet-standard Network Management Framework. R. Frye, D. Levi, S.
     Routhier, B. Wijnen. August 2003. (Format: TXT=115222 bytes)
     (Obsoletes RFC2576) (Also BCP0074) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3553 An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters. M.
     Mealling, L. Masinter, T. Hardie, G. Klyne. June 2003. (Format:
     TXT=14815 bytes) (Also BCP0073) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3552 Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations. E.
     Rescorla, B. Korver. July 2003. (Format: TXT=110393 bytes) (Also
     BCP0072) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3481 TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless
     Networks. H. Inamura, Ed., G. Montenegro, Ed., R. Ludwig, A. Gurtov,
     F. Khafizov. February 2003. (Format: TXT=61528 bytes) (Also BCP0071)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3427 Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). A.
     Mankin, S. Bradner, R. Mahy, D. Willis, J. Ott, B. Rosen. December
     2002. (Format: TXT=26234 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC5727) (Updated by
     RFC3968, RFC3969) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3405 Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Five: URI.ARPA
     Assignment Procedures. M. Mealling. October 2002. (Format: TXT=19469
     bytes) (Also BCP0065) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3372 Session Initiation Protocol for Telephones (SIP-T): Context and
     Architectures. A. Vemuri, J. Peterson. September 2002. (Format:
     TXT=49893 bytes) (Also BCP0063) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3366 Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ).
     G. Fairhurst, L. Wood. August 2002. (Format: TXT=66097 bytes) (Also
     BCP0062) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3365 Strong Security Requirements for Internet Engineering Task Force
     Standard Protocols. J. Schiller. August 2002. (Format: TXT=16411
     bytes) (Also BCP0061) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3228 IANA Considerations for IPv4 Internet Group Management Protocol
     (IGMP). B. Fenner. February 2002. (Format: TXT=6473 bytes) (Also
     BCP0057) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3227 Guidelines for Evidence Collection and Archiving. D. Brezinski,
     T. Killalea. February 2002. (Format: TXT=18468 bytes) (Also BCP0055)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3184 IETF Guidelines for Conduct. S. Harris. October 2001. (Format:
     TXT=7413 bytes) (Also BCP0054) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3152 Delegation of IP6.ARPA. R. Bush. August 2001. (Format: TXT=5727
     bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC3596) (Updates RFC2874, RFC2772, RFC2766,
     RFC2553, RFC1886) (Also BCP0049) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3150 End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow Links. S. Dawkins, G.
     Montenegro, M. Kojo, V. Magret. July 2001. (Format: TXT=39942 bytes)
     (Also BCP0048) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3066 Tags for the Identification of Languages. H. Alvestrand. January
     2001. (Format: TXT=26522 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1766) (Obsoleted by
     RFC4646, RFC4647) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3013 Recommended Internet Service Provider Security Services and
     Procedures. T. Killalea. November 2000. (Format: TXT=27905 bytes)
     (Also BCP0046) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

3005 IETF Discussion List Charter. S. Harris. November 2000. (Format:
     TXT=5682 bytes) (Also BCP0045) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2978 IANA Charset Registration Procedures. N. Freed, J. Postel.
     October 2000. (Format: TXT=21615 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2278) (Also
     BCP0019) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2929 Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations. D. Eastlake 3rd, E.
     Brunner-Williams, B. Manning. September 2000. (Format: TXT=22454
     bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC5395) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2914 Congestion Control Principles. S. Floyd. September 2000. (Format:
     TXT=43823 bytes) (Also BCP0041) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2827 Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks
     which employ IP Source Address Spoofing. P. Ferguson, D. Senie. May
     2000. (Format: TXT=21258 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2267) (Updated by
     RFC3704) (Also BCP0038) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2780 IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol
     and Related Headers. S. Bradner, V. Paxson. March 2000. (Format:
     TXT=18954 bytes) (Updated by RFC4443, RFC5237, RFC5771, RFC6335)
     (Also BCP0037) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2736 Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications. M.
     Handley, C. Perkins. December 1999. (Format: TXT=24143 bytes) (Also
     BCP0036) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2727 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process:
     Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees. J. Galvin.
     February 2000. (Format: TXT=33396 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC2282)
     (Obsoleted by RFC3777) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2717 Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names. R. Petke, I. King.
     November 1999. (Format: TXT=19780 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC4395)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2644 Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in Routers. D.
     Senie. August 1999. (Format: TXT=6820 bytes) (Updates RFC1812) (Also
     BCP0034) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2611 URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms. L. Daigle, D. van Gulik, R.
     Iannella, P. Falstrom. June 1999. (Format: TXT=26916 bytes)
     (Obsoleted by RFC3406) (Also BCP0033) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2606 Reserved Top Level DNS Names. D. Eastlake 3rd, A. Panitz. June
     1999. (Format: TXT=8008 bytes) (Updated by RFC6761) (Also BCP0032)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2489 Procedure for Defining New DHCP Options. R. Droms. January 1999.
     (Format: TXT=10484 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC2939) (Also BCP0029)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2488 Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms.
     M. Allman, D. Glover, L. Sanchez. January 1999. (Format: TXT=47857
     bytes) (Also BCP0028) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2438 Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track. M.
     O'Dell, H. Alvestrand, B. Wijnen, S. Bradner. October 1998. (Format:
     TXT=13633 bytes) (Also BCP0027) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2418 IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures. S. Bradner.
     September 1998. (Format: TXT=62857 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1603)
     (Updated by RFC3934) (Also BCP0025) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2350 Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response. N.
     Brownlee, E. Guttman. June 1998. (Format: TXT=86545 bytes) (Also
     BCP0021) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2182 Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers. R. Elz, R.
     Bush, S. Bradner, M. Patton. July 1997. (Format: TXT=27456 bytes)
     (Also BCP0016) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2148 Deployment of the Internet White Pages Service. H. Alvestrand, P.
     Jurg. September 1997. (Format: TXT=31539 bytes) (Also BCP0015)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2028 The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process. R.
     Hovey, S. Bradner. October 1996. (Format: TXT=13865 bytes) (Updated
     by RFC3668, RFC3979) (Also BCP0011) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2026 The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3. S. Bradner. October
     1996. (Format: TXT=86731 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1602, RFC1871) (Updated
     by RFC3667, RFC3668, RFC3932, RFC3979, RFC3978, RFC5378, RFC5657,
     RFC5742, RFC6410) (Also BCP0009) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2014 IRTF Research Group Guidelines and Procedures. A. Weinrib, J.
     Postel. October 1996. (Format: TXT=27507 bytes) (Also BCP0008)
     (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

2008 Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet
     Routing. Y. Rekhter, T. Li. October 1996. (Format: TXT=34717 bytes)
     (Also BCP0007) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

1930 Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an
     Autonomous System (AS). J. Hawkinson, T. Bates. March 1996. (Format:
     TXT=22073 bytes) (Also BCP0006) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets. Y. Rekhter, B.
     Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot, E. Lear. February 1996.
     (Format: TXT=22270 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1627, RFC1597) (Updated by
     RFC6761) (Also BCP0005) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

1917 An Appeal to the Internet Community to Return Unused IP Networks
     (Prefixes) to the IANA. P. Nesser II. February 1996. (Format:
     TXT=23623 bytes) (Also BCP0004) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

1915 Variance for The PPP Compression Control Protocol and The PPP
     Encryption Control Protocol. F. Kastenholz. February 1996. (Format:
     TXT=14347 bytes) (Also BCP0003) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE)

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