Formally Deprecating Some IPv4 Options
RFC 6814
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(November 2012; No errata)
Was draft-gp-intarea-obsolete-ipv4-options-iana (individual in ops area)
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) C. Pignataro
Request for Comments: 6814 Cisco Systems
Obsoletes: 1385, 1393, 1475, 1770 F. Gont
Category: Standards Track UTN-FRH / SI6 Networks
ISSN: 2070-1721 November 2012
Formally Deprecating Some IPv4 Options
Abstract
A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have
never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4
options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry.
Additionally, it obsoletes RFCs 1385, 1393, 1475, and 1770, and
requests that the RFC Editor change their status to Historic.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6814.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Discussion of Deprecated Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1. Stream ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.2. Extended Internet Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3. Traceroute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.4. ENCODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.5. VISA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.6. Address Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.7. Selective Directed Broadcast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.8. Dynamic Packet State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.9. Upstream Multicast Pkt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Changing the Status of the Corresponding RFCs to Historic . . . 4
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1. Introduction
The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) [RFC791] provides for
expansion of the protocol by supporting a number of "options" in the
variable-length IPv4 header. IPv4 options are identified by an
option "type" value, whose registration is managed by IANA [IANA-IP].
A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have
never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4
options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry.
This document also obsoletes [RFC1385], [RFC1393], [RFC1475], and
[RFC1770], and requests that the RFC Editor change their status to
Historic.
2. Discussion of Deprecated Options
The following subsections discuss the options being deprecated. No
other reference information has been found.
2.1. Stream ID
The Stream ID option is obsolete. It is specified in RFC 791
[RFC791], and is deprecated in Section 3.2.1.8 of RFC 1122 [RFC1122]
and Section 4.2.2.1 of RFC 1812 [RFC1812].
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2.2. Extended Internet Protocol
The Extended Internet Protocol option is defined in [RFC1385] and is
superseded by [RFC2460].
2.3. Traceroute
The Traceroute option is defined in [RFC1393]. The Traceroute option
is defined as Experimental; it was never widely deployed on the
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