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Versions: 00 01 02 RFC 6247
Network Working Group L. Eggert
Internet-Draft Nokia
Obsoletes: 1072, 1106, 1110, 1145, March 15, 2011
1146, 1379, 1644, 1693
(if approved)
Updates: 4614 (if approved)
Intended status: Informational
Expires: September 16, 2011
Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC1072, RFC1106, RFC1110, RFC1145,
RFC1146, RFC1379, RFC1644 and RFC1693 to Historic Status
draft-eggert-tcpm-historicize-02
Abstract
This document recommends that several TCP extensions that have never
seen widespread use be moved to Historic status. The affected RFCs
are RFC1072, RFC1106, RFC1110, RFC1145, RFC1146, RFC1379, RFC1644 and
RFC1693.
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1. Introduction
TCP has a long history, and several proposed TCP extensions have
never seen widespread deployment. Section 5 of the TCP "roadmap"
document [RFC4614] already classifies a number of TCP extensions as
Historic and describes the reasons for doing so, but it does not
instruct the RFC Editor and IANA to change the status of these RFCs
in the RFC database and the relevant IANA registries. The sole
purpose of this document is to do just that. Please refer to Section
5 of [RFC4614] for justification.
2. RFC Editor Considerations
The RFC Editor is requested to change the status of the following
RFCs to Historic [RFC2026]:
o [RFC1072] on "TCP Extensions for Long-Delay Paths"
o [RFC1106] and [RFC1110] related to the "TCP Big Window and NAK
Options"
o [RFC1145] and [RFC1146] related to the "TCP Alternate Checksum
Options"
o [RFC1379] and [RFC1644] on "TCP Extensions for Transactions"
o [RFC1693] on "TCP Partial Order Service"
3. IANA Considerations
IANA is requested to mark the TCP options 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
and 15 documented in [RFC1072], [RFC1146], [RFC1644] and [RFC1693] as
"obsolete" in the TCP option numbers registry [TCPOPTREG], with a
reference to this RFC.
(None of the other documents moved to Historic status had TCP options
numbers assigned; no IANA action is therefore required for them.)
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4. Security Considerations
This document has no known security implications.
[Note to the RFC Editor: Please remove this section upon
publication.]
5. Acknowledgments
Lars Eggert is partly funded by [TRILOGY], a research project
supported by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework
Program.
6. References
6.1. Normative References
[RFC1072] Jacobson, V. and R. Braden, "TCP extensions for long-delay
paths", RFC 1072, October 1988.
[RFC1106] Fox, R., "TCP big window and NAK options", RFC 1106,
June 1989.
[RFC1110] McKenzie, A., "Problem with the TCP big window option",
RFC 1110, August 1989.
[RFC1145] Zweig, J. and C. Partridge, "TCP alternate checksum
options", RFC 1145, February 1990.
[RFC1146] Zweig, J. and C. Partridge, "TCP alternate checksum
options", RFC 1146, March 1990.
[RFC1379] Braden, B., "Extending TCP for Transactions -- Concepts",
RFC 1379, November 1992.
[RFC1644] Braden, B., "T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions
Functional Specification", RFC 1644, July 1994.
[RFC1693] Connolly, T., Amer, P., and P. Conrad, "An Extension to
TCP : Partial Order Service", RFC 1693, November 1994.
[RFC4614] Duke, M., Braden, R., Eddy, W., and E. Blanton, "A Roadmap
for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification
Documents", RFC 4614, September 2006.
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6.2. Informative References
[RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
[TCPOPTREG]
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), "TCP Option
Kind Numbers", http://www.iana.org/assignments/
tcp-parameters/tcp-parameters.xml.
[TRILOGY] "Trilogy Project", http://www.trilogy-project.org/.
Author's Address
Lars Eggert
Nokia Research Center
P.O. Box 407
Nokia Group 00045
Finland
Phone: +358 50 48 24461
Email: lars.eggert@nokia.com
URI: http://research.nokia.com/people/lars_eggert
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