Moving the Undeployed TCP Extensions RFC 1072, RFC 1106, RFC 1110, RFC 1145, RFC 1146, RFC 1379, RFC 1644, and RFC 1693 to Historic Status
draft-eggert-tcpm-historicize-02

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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