Important RFCs Protocols by TLA

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Luxi Serif', 'New Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">RFCs often cover protocols with a well-known acronym, but the acronym itself is rarely given in the RFC title, just its expansion. Therefore, if you know the acronym but not what it stands for, you may not be able to find the RFC. This table gives the most common protocol acronyms and links you to their RFC.</span><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc826.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">ARP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc951.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">BOOTP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">DHCP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">DNS</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc862.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">ECHO</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1288.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">FINGER</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc959.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">FTP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">HTML 2.0</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">HTTP/1.1</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc792.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">ICMP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1112.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">IGMP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2060.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">IMAP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc791.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">IP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2460.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">IPv6</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2810.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">IRC</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">MAIL</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">MIME</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1813.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">NFS</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc977.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">NNTP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1305.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">NTP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">POP3</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1661.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">PPP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc865.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">QUOTE</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc903.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RARP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1831.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RPC</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1055.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">SLIP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc821.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">SMTP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1157.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">SNMP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1592.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">SNMPv2</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2030.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">SNTPv4</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1928.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">SOCKS</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">TCP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc854.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">TELNET</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1350.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">TFTP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc868.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">TIME</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc768.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">UDP</a><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1832.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">XDR</a></div></div>

Important RFCs Protocols by TLA

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Important RFCs Useful Non-official Protocols

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Luxi Serif', 'New Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">These are RFCs that are useful to application programmers, but not officially accepted as Internet-wide standards. They tend to be</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Luxi Serif', 'New Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Luxi Serif', 'New Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">de facto</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Luxi Serif', 'New Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Luxi Serif', 'New Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">standards, however.</span><br /><a name="more"></a><div id="body" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Luxi Serif', 'New Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 20px 40px 10px 20px; padding-left: 30px;"><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc896.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 896</a> — <i>Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks</i>, J. Nagle, 1/6/1984, 9 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc977.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 977</a> — <i>Network News Transfer Protocol</i>, B. Kantor, P. Lapsley, 2/1/1986, 27 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1013.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1013</a> — <i>X Window System Protocol, version 11</i>, R. Scheifler, 6/1/1987, 101 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1592.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1592</a> — <i>Simple Network Management Protocol Distributed Protocol Interface Version 2.0</i>, B. Wijnen, G. Carpenter, K. Curran, A. Sehgal, G. Waters, 3/3/1994, 54 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1813.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1813</a> — <i>NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification</i>, B. Callaghan, B. Pawlowski, P. Staubach, 6/21/1995, 126 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1831.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1831</a> — <i>Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification Version 2</i>, R. Srinivasan, 8/9/1995, 18 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1832.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1832</a> — <i>External Data Representation Standard</i>, R. Srinivasan, 8/9/1995, 24 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1833.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1833</a> — <i>Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2</i>, R. Srinivasan, 8/9/1995, 14 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1866</a> — <i>Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0</i>, T. Berners-Lee, D. Connolly, 11/3/1995, 77 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1867.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1867</a> — <i>Form-based File Upload in HTML</i>, E. Nebel, L. Masinter, 11/7/1995, 13 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1918.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1918</a> — <i>Address Allocation for Private Internets</i>, Y. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. de Groot, E. Lear, 2/29/1996, 9 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1928.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1928</a> — <i>SOCKS Protocol Version 5</i>, M. Leech, M. Ganis, Y. Lee, R. Kuris, D. Koblas, L. Jones, 4/3/1996, 9 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2030.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2030</a> — <i>Simple Network Time Protocol Version 4 for IPv4</i>, D. Mills, 10/30/1996, 18 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2045</a> — <i>Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies</i>, N. Freed, N. Borenstein, 12/2/1996, 31 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2046</a> — <i>Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types</i>, N. Freed, N. Borenstein, 12/2/1996, 44 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2047</a> — <i>Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text</i>, K. Moore, 12/2/1996, 15 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2048.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2048</a> — <i>Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures</i>, N. Freed, J. Klensin, J. Postel, 1/28/1997, 21 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2049.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2049</a> — <i>Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples</i>, N. Freed, N. Borenstein, 12/2/1996, 24 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2054.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2054</a> — <i>WebNFS Client Specification</i>, B. Callaghan, 10/31/1996, 16 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2055.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2055</a> — <i>WebNFS Server Specification</i>, B. Callaghan, 10/31/1996, 10 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2060.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2060</a> — <i>Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1</i>, M. Crispin, 12/4/1996, 82 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2131</a> — <i>Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol</i>, R. Droms, 3/1997, 45 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2460.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2460</a> — <i>Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification</i>, S. Deering, R. Hinden, 12/1998, 39 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2616</a> — <i>Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</i>, R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee, 6/1999, 176 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2810.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2810</a> — <i>Internet Relay Chat: Architecture</i>, C. Kalt, 4/2000, 10 pp.Updates <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1459.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1459</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2811.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2811</a> — <i>Internet Relay Chat: Channel Management</i>, C. Kalt, 4/2000, 19 pp.Updates <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1459.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1459</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2812.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2812</a> — <i>Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol</i>, C. Kalt, 4/2000, 63 pp.Updates <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1459.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1459</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2813.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2813</a> — <i>Internet Relay Chat: Server Protocol</i>, C. Kalt, 4/2000, 26 pp.Updates <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1459.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1459</a>.</div></div></div>

Important RFCs Useful Non-official Protocols

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Important RFCs Official Internet Protocols

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div id="body" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Luxi Serif', 'New Century Schoolbook', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 20px 40px 10px 20px; padding-left: 30px;"><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;">While most RFCs are just proposals, miscellaneous protocol descriptions, or opinion/information documents, these few protocols are the true “Internet standards” among the RFCs.<br /><br /></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;">This page was derived from section 3.1 of <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5000.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 5000</a>, the <i>Internet Official Protocol Standards</i> document. This document is re-issued occasionally, always numbered so as to be evenly-divisible by 100, so RFC 5100 or whatever might be out by the time you read this, with new protocols not mentioned here. Not every possible number in that series is used for this purpose. The current version’s replacement could be called RFC 5200, or 5300, or... It depends on how many protocols get dubbed “official” by the time the next number in the series comes around.<br /><a name="more"></a></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5000.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 5000</a> (STD 1) — <i>Internet Official Protocol Standards</i>, RFC Editor, 5/2008, 75 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1700.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1700</a> (STD 2) — <i>Assigned Numbers</i>, J. Reynolds, J. Postel, 10/20/1994, 320 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1122</a> (STD 3) — <i>Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication layers</i>, R. Braden, 10/1/1989, 116 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1123</a> (STD 3) — <i>Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and support</i>, R. Braden, 10/1/1989, 98 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc791.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 791</a> (STD 5) — <i>Internet Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 9/1/1981, 45 pp., ammended by <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc950.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 950</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc919.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 919</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc922.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 922</a></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc792.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 792</a> (STD 5) — <i>Internet Control Message Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 9/1/1981, 21 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1112.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1112</a> (STD 5) — <i>Host extensions for IP multicasting</i>, S. Deering, 8/1/1989, 17 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc768.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 768</a> (STD 6) — <i>User Datagram Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 8/28/1980, 3 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 793</a> (STD 7) — <i>Transmission Control Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 9/1/1981, 85 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc854.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 854</a> (STD 8) — <i>Telnet Protocol specification</i>, J. Postel, J. Reynolds, 5/1/1983, 15 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc855.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 855</a> (STD 8) — <i>Telnet option specifications</i>, J. Postel, J. Reynolds, 5/1/1983, 4 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc959.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 959</a> (STD 9) — <i>File Transfer Protocol</i>, J. Postel, J. Reynolds, 10/1/1985, 69 pp., updated by <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2228.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2228</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2640.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2640</a></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc821.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 821</a> (STD 10) — <i>Simple Mail Transfer Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 8/1/1982, 58 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1869.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1869</a> (STD 10) — <i>SMTP Service Extensions</i>, J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud, D. Crocker, 11/6/1995, 11 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1870.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1870</a> (STD 10) — <i>SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration</i>, J. Klensin, N. Freed, K. Moore, 11/6/1995, 9 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc822.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 822</a> (STD 11) — <i>Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages</i>, D. Crocker, 8/13/1982, 47 pp., updated by <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1327.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1327</a></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1049.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1049</a> (STD 11) — <i>Content-type header field for Internet messages</i>, M. Sirbu, 3/1/1988, 8 pp., updated by <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1505.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1505</a></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1034</a> (STD 13) — <i>Domain names - concepts and facilities</i>, P. Mockapetris, 11/1/1987, 55 pp., updated by <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2535.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2535</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2308.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2308</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2181</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1982.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1982</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1876.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1876</a>,<a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1348.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1348</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1183.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1183</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1101.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1101</a></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1035</a> (STD 13) — <i>Domain names - implementation and specification</i>, P. Mockapetris, 11/1/1987, 55 pp., updated by <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2535.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2535</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2308.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2308</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2181.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2181</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2137.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2137</a>,<a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2136.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2136</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1996.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1996</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1995.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1995</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1982.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1982</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1876.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1876</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1348.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1348</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1183.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1183</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1101.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1101</a></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc974.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 974</a> (STD 14) — <i>Mail routing and the domain system</i>, C. Partridge, 1/1/1986, 7 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1157.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1157</a> (STD 15) — <i>A Simple Network Management Protocol</i>, M. Schoffstall, M. Fedor, J. Davin, J. Case, 5/10/1990, 36 pp., Updates <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1098.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1098</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1212.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1212</a> (STD 16) — <i>Concise MIB Definitions</i>, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose, 3/26/1991, 19 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1155.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1155</a> (STD 17) — <i>Structure and Identification of Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets</i>, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose, 5/10/1990, 22 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1212.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1212</a> (STD 17) — <i>Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II</i>, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose, 3/26/1991, 70 pp., updated by <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2011.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2011</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2012.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2012</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2013.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 2013</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1001.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1001</a> (STD 19) — <i>Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on a TCP/UDP transport: Concepts and methods</i>, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, End-to-End Services Task Force, Internet Activities Board, NetBIOS Working Group, 3/1/1987, 68 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1002.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1002</a> (STD 19) — <i>Protocol standard for a NetBIOS service on a TCP/UDP transport: Detailed specifications</i>, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, End-to-End Services Task Force, Internet Activities Board, NetBIOS Working Group, 3/1/1987, 85 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc862.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 862</a> (STD 20) — <i>Echo Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 5/1/1983, 1 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc863.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 863</a> (STD 21) — <i>Discard Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 5/1/1983, 1 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc864.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 864</a> (STD 22) — <i>Character Generator Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 5/1/1983, 3 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc865.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 865</a> (STD 23) — <i>Quote of the Day Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 5/1/1983, 1 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc866.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 866</a> (STD 24) — <i>Active users</i>, J. Postel, 5/1/1983, 1 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc867.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 867</a> (STD 25) — <i>Daytime Protocol</i>, J. Postel, 5/1/1983, 2 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc868.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 868</a> (STD 26) — <i>Time Protocol</i>, K. Harrenstein, J. Postel, 5/1/1983, 2 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1350.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1350</a> (STD 33) — <i>The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2)</i>, K. Sollins, 7/10/1992, 11 pp., updated by <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1782.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1782</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1783.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1783</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1784.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1784</a>, <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1785.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1785</a></div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1006.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1006</a> (STD 35) — <i>ISO transport services on top of the TCP: Version: 3</i>, D. Cass, M. Rose, 5/1/1987, 17 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc826.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 826</a> (STD 37) — <i>Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol</i>, D. Plummer, 11/1/1982, 10 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc903.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 903</a> (STD 38) — <i>Reverse Address Resolution Protocol</i>, R. Finlayson, T. Mann, J. Mogul, M. Theimer, 6/1/1984, 4 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1643.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1643</a> (STD 50) — <i>Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types</i>, F. Kastenholz, 7/13/1994, 19 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1661.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1661</a> (STD 51) — <i>The Point-to-Point Protocol</i>, W. Simpson, 7/21/1994, 54 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1662.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1662</a> (STD 51) — <i>PPP in HDLC-like Framing</i>, W. Simpson, 7/21/1994, 27 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1209.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1209</a> (STD 52) — <i>The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the SMDS Service</i>, J. Lawrence, D. Piscitello, 3/6/1991, 11 pp.</div><div style="line-height: 22px; margin-left: 20pt;"><br /><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt" style="color: #7d2e01;">RFC 1939</a> (STD 53) — <i>Post Office Protocol - Version 3</i>, J. Myers, M. Rose, 5/14/1996, 23 pp.</div></div></div>

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