Introduction to the Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Standards Track and Experimental Documents
RFC 3789
Document | Type | RFC - Informational (June 2004; No errata) | |
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Authors | Andreas Bergstrom , Philip Nesser | ||
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Network Working Group P. Nesser, II Request for Comments: 3789 Nesser & Nesser Consulting Category: Informational A. Bergstrom, Ed. Ostfold University College June 2004 Introduction to the Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Standards Track and Experimental Documents Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). Abstract This document is a general overview and introduction to the v6ops IETF workgroup project of documenting all usage of IPv4 addresses in IETF standards track and experimental RFCs. It is broken into seven documents conforming to the current IETF areas. It also describes the methodology used during documentation, which types of RFCs have been documented, and provides a concatenated summary of results. Table of Contents 1.0. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1. Short Historical Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2. An Observation on the Classification of Standards. . . 3 2.0. Methodology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1. Scope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.0. Summary of Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Application Area Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Internet Area Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3. Operations and Management Area Specifications. . . . . 6 3.4. Routing Area Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.5. Security Area Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.6. Sub-IP Area Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.7. Transport Area Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.0. Discussion of "Long Term" Stability of Addresses on Protocols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5.0. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6.0. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Nesser II & Bergstrom Informational [Page 1] RFC 3789 Introduction to the IPv4 Address in the IETF June 2004 7.0. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 8.0. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9.0. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.0. Introduction This document is the introduction to 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 [1], Internet [2], Operations and Management [3], Routing [4], Security [5], Sub-IP [6], and Transport [7]). It also describes the methodology used during documentation, which types of RFCs that have been documented, and provides a concatenated summary of results. 1.1. Short Historical Perspective There are many challenges that face the Internet Engineering community. The foremost of these challenges has been the scaling issue: how to grow a network that was envisioned to handle thousands of hosts to one that will handle tens of millions of networks with billions of hosts. Over the years, this scaling problem has been managed, with varying degrees of success, by changes to the network layer and to routing protocols. (Although largely ignored in the changes to network layer and routing protocols, the tremendous advances in computational hardware during the past two decades have been of significant benefit in management of scaling problems encountered thus far.) The first "modern" transition to the network layer occurred during the early 1980's, moving from the Network Control Protocol (NCP) to IPv4. This culminated in the famous "flag day" of January 1, 1983. IP Version 4 originally specified an 8 bit network and 24 bit host addresses, as documented in RFC 760. A year later, IPv4 was updated in RFC 791 to include the famous A, B, C, D, and E class system. Networks were growing in such a way that it was clear that a convention for breaking networks into smaller pieces was needed. In October of 1984 RFC 917 was published formalizing the practice of subnetting. By the late 1980's, it was clear that the current exterior routing protocol used by the Internet (EGP) was insufficiently robust to scale with the growth of the Internet. The first version of BGP wasShow full document text