{
  "number": 3304,
  "title": "Middlebox Communications (midcom) Protocol Requirements",
  "authors": [
    "R. P. Swale",
    "P. A. Mart",
    "P. Sijben",
    "S. Brim",
    "M. Shore"
  ],
  "published": "2002-08",
  "status": "Informational",
  "stream": "IETF",
  "area": "tsv",
  "working_group": "midcom",
  "pages": 9,
  "formats": [
    "TXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "abstract": "This document specifies the requirements that the Middlebox Commu- nication (midcom) protocol must satisfy in order to meet the needs of applications wishing to influence middlebox function. These requirements were developed with a specific focus on network address translation and firewall middleboxes.",
  "keywords": [
    "nat",
    "network address protocol",
    "firewall middleboxes"
  ],
  "draft": "draft-ietf-midcom-requirements-05",
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC3304",
  "errata_url": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/rfc3304",
  "urls": {
    "html": "https://rfc.dk/rfc3304/",
    "text": "https://rfc.dk/rfc3304.txt",
    "rfc_editor": "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3304",
    "datatracker": "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc3304/"
  },
  "text_modified": "2002-08-06T20:37:29Z"
}