RFC 3794 (rfc3794) - Page 2 of 31

Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Transport Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents

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RFC 3794       IPv4 Addresses in the IETF Transport Area       June 2004


   10.0. Normative Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   11.0. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   12.0. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

1.0.  Introduction

   This document is part of a document set aiming to document all usage
   of IPv4 addresses in IETF standards.  In an effort to have the
   information in a manageable form, it has been broken into 7 documents
   conforming to the current IETF areas (Application,  Internet,
   Operations & Management, Routing, Security, Sub-IP and Transport).

   For a full introduction, please see the introduction [1].

2.0.  Document Organization

   The rest of the document sections are described below.

   Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 each describe the raw analysis of Full,
   Draft, and Proposed Standards, and Experimental RFCs.  Each RFC is
   discussed in its turn starting with RFC 1 and ending with (around)
   RFC 3100. The comments for each RFC are "raw" in nature.  That is,
   each RFC is discussed in a vacuum and problems or issues discussed do
   not "look ahead" to see if the problems have already been fixed.

   Section 7 is an analysis of the data presented in Sections 3, 4, 5,
   and 6.  It is here that all of the results are considered as a whole
   and the problems that have been resolved in later RFCs are
   correlated.

3.0.  Full Standards

   Full Internet Standards (most commonly simply referred to as
   "Standards") are fully mature protocol specification that are widely
   implemented and used throughout the Internet.

3.1.  RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol

   Although UDP is a transport protocol there is one reference to the
   UDP/IP interface that states;  "The UDP module must be able to
   determine the source and destination internet addresses and the
   protocol field from the internet header."  This does not force a
   rewrite of the protocol but will clearly cause changes in
   implementations.







Nesser II & Bergstrom        Informational
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