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10027 Best Current Practice for Security of Cross-Device FlowsP. Kasselman, D. Fett, F. Skokan Best Current Practice August 2026
10026 Operational Recommendations for DNSSEC Delegation Signer (DS) AutomationS. Sheng, P. Thomassen Best Current Practice July 2026
10017 OAuth 2.0 for Browser-Based ApplicationsA. Parecki, P. De Ryck, D. Waite Best Current Practice August 2026
10014 Guidelines for Characterizing the Term "OAM"C. Pignataro, A. Farrel, T. Mizrahi Best Current Practice June 2026
10001 Operational Guidelines for DNS Transport in Mixed IPv4/IPv6 EnvironmentsMomoka, T. Fiebig Best Current Practice August 2026
9945 IETF Community ModerationL. Eggert, Ed., E. Lear, Ed. Best Current Practice February 2026
9907 Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data ModelsA. Bierman, M. Boucadair, Ed., Q. Wu Best Current Practice March 2026
9874 Best Practices for Deletion of Domain and Host Objects in the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)S. Hollenbeck, W. Carroll, G. Akiwate Best Current Practice September 2025
9852 New Protocols Using TLS Must Require TLS 1.3R. Salz, N. Aviram Best Current Practice July 2026
9813 Operational Considerations for Using TLS Pre-Shared Keys (TLS-PSKs) with RADIUSA. DeKok Best Current Practice July 2025
9812 Clarification of IPv6 Address Allocation PolicyB. Carpenter, S. Krishnan, D. Farmer Best Current Practice October 2025
9778 IANA Considerations for Internet Group Management ProtocolsB. Haberman, Ed. Best Current Practice March 2025
9743 Specifying New Congestion Control AlgorithmsM. Duke, Ed., G. Fairhurst, Ed. Best Current Practice March 2025
9726 Operational Considerations for Use of DNS in Internet of Things (IoT) DevicesM. Richardson, W. Pan Best Current Practice March 2025
9712 IETF Meeting Venue Requirements ReviewJ. Daley, S. Turner Best Current Practice January 2025
9700 Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 SecurityT. Lodderstedt, J. Bradley, A. Labunets, D. Fett Best Current Practice January 2025
9694 Guidelines for the Definition of New Top-Level Media TypesM.J. Dürst Best Current Practice March 2025
9609 Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming QueriesP. Koch, M. Larson, P. Hoffman Best Current Practice February 2025
9599 Guidelines for Adding Congestion Notification to Protocols that Encapsulate IPB. Briscoe, J. Kaippallimalil Best Current Practice August 2024
9542 IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol and Documentation Usage for IEEE 802 ParametersD. Eastlake 3rd, J. Abley, Y. Li Best Current Practice April 2024
9501 Open Participation Principle regarding Remote Registration FeeM. Kühlewind, J. Reed, R. Salz Best Current Practice December 2023
9499 DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, K. Fujiwara Best Current Practice March 2024
9455 Avoiding Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) Containing Multiple IP PrefixesZ. Yan, R. Bush, G. Geng, T. de Kock, J. Yao Best Current Practice August 2023
9416 Security Considerations for Transient Numeric Identifiers Employed in Network ProtocolsF. Gont, I. Arce Best Current Practice July 2023
9389 Nominating Committee EligibilityM. Duke Best Current Practice April 2023
9364 DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)P. Hoffman Best Current Practice February 2023
9325 Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)Y. Sheffer, P. Saint-Andre, T. Fossati Best Current Practice November 2022
9319 The Use of maxLength in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)Y. Gilad, S. Goldberg, K. Sriram, J. Snijders, B. Maddison Best Current Practice October 2022
9283 IAB Charter Update for RFC Editor ModelB. Carpenter, Ed. Best Current Practice June 2022
9282 Responsibility Change for the RFC SeriesB. Rosen Best Current Practice June 2022
9281 Entities Involved in the IETF Standards ProcessR. Salz Best Current Practice June 2022
9276 Guidance for NSEC3 Parameter SettingsW. Hardaker, V. Dukhovni Best Current Practice August 2022
9245 IETF Discussion List CharterL. Eggert, S. Harris Best Current Practice June 2022
9210 DNS Transport over TCP - Operational RequirementsJ. Kristoff, D. Wessels Best Current Practice March 2022
9205 Building Protocols with HTTPM. Nottingham Best Current Practice June 2022
9137 Considerations for Cancellation of IETF MeetingsM. Duke Best Current Practice October 2021
9096 Improving the Reaction of Customer Edge Routers to IPv6 Renumbering EventsF. Gont, J. Žorž, R. Patterson, B. Volz Best Current Practice August 2021
8996 Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1K. Moriarty, S. Farrell Best Current Practice March 2021
8961 Requirements for Time-Based Loss DetectionM. Allman Best Current Practice November 2020
8958 Updated Registration Rules for URI.ARPAT. Hardie Best Current Practice December 2020
8932 Recommendations for DNS Privacy Service OperatorsS. Dickinson, B. Overeinder, R. van Rijswijk-Deij, A. Mankin Best Current Practice October 2020
8906 A Common Operational Problem in DNS Servers: Failure to CommunicateM. Andrews, R. Bellis Best Current Practice September 2020
8900 IP Fragmentation Considered FragileR. Bonica, F. Baker, G. Huston, R. Hinden, O. Troan, F. Gont Best Current Practice September 2020
8862 Best Practices for Securing RTP Media Signaled with SIPJ. Peterson, R. Barnes, R. Housley Best Current Practice January 2021
8820 URI Design and OwnershipM. Nottingham Best Current Practice June 2020
8815 Deprecating Any-Source Multicast (ASM) for Interdomain MulticastM. Abrahamsson, T. Chown, L. Giuliano, T. Eckert Best Current Practice August 2020
8789 IETF Stream Documents Require IETF Rough ConsensusJ. Halpern, Ed., E. Rescorla, Ed. Best Current Practice June 2020
8788 Eligibility for the 2020-2021 Nominating CommitteeB. Leiba · obsoleted by RFC 9389 Best Current Practice May 2020
8758 Deprecating RC4 in Secure Shell (SSH)L. Velvindron Best Current Practice April 2020
8725 JSON Web Token Best Current PracticesY. Sheffer, D. Hardt, M. Jones Best Current Practice February 2020
8719 High-Level Guidance for the Meeting Policy of the IETFS. Krishnan Best Current Practice February 2020
8718 IETF Plenary Meeting Venue Selection ProcessE. Lear, Ed. Best Current Practice February 2020
8717 IETF Administrative Support Activity 2.0: Consolidated Updates to IETF Administrative TerminologyJ. Klensin, Ed. Best Current Practice February 2020
8716 Update to the IETF Anti-Harassment Procedures for the Replacement of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) with the IETF Administration LLCP. Resnick, A. Farrel Best Current Practice February 2020
8714 Update to the Process for Selection of Trustees for the IETF TrustJ. Arkko, T. Hardie Best Current Practice February 2020
8713 IAB, IESG, IETF Trust, and IETF LLC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the IETF Nominating and Recall CommitteesM. Kucherawy, Ed., R. Hinden, Ed., J. Livingood, Ed. Best Current Practice February 2020
8711 Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity, Version 2.0B. Haberman, J. Hall, J. Livingood Best Current Practice February 2020
8704 Enhanced Feasible-Path Unicast Reverse Path ForwardingK. Sriram, D. Montgomery, J. Haas Best Current Practice February 2020
8634 BGPsec Router Certificate RolloverB. Weis, R. Gagliano, K. Patel Best Current Practice August 2019
8633 Network Time Protocol Best Current PracticesD. Reilly, H. Stenn, D. Sibold Best Current Practice July 2019
8553 DNS Attrleaf Changes: Fixing Specifications That Use Underscored Node NamesD. Crocker Best Current Practice March 2019
8552 Scoped Interpretation of DNS Resource Records through "Underscored" Naming of Attribute LeavesD. Crocker Best Current Practice March 2019
8521 Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) Object TaggingS. Hollenbeck, A. Newton Best Current Practice November 2018
8504 IPv6 Node RequirementsT. Chown, J. Loughney, T. Winters Best Current Practice January 2019
8499 DNS TerminologyP. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara · obsoleted by RFC 9499 Best Current Practice January 2019
8429 Deprecate Triple-DES (3DES) and RC4 in KerberosB. Kaduk, M. Short Best Current Practice October 2018
8421 Guidelines for Multihomed and IPv4/IPv6 Dual-Stack Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE)P. Martinsen, T. Reddy, P. Patil Best Current Practice July 2018
8407 Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of Documents Containing YANG Data ModelsA. Bierman · obsoleted by RFC 9907 Best Current Practice October 2018
8340 YANG Tree DiagramsM. Bjorklund, L. Berger, Ed. Best Current Practice March 2018
8327 Mitigating the Negative Impact of Maintenance through BGP Session CullingW. Hargrave, M. Griswold, J. Snijders, N. Hilliard Best Current Practice March 2018
8318 IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: IAOC Advisor for the Nominating CommitteeS. Dawkins · obsoleted by RFC 8713 Best Current Practice January 2018
8313 Use of Multicast across Inter-domain Peering PointsP. Tarapore, Ed., R. Sayko, G. Shepherd, T. Eckert, Ed., R. Krishnan Best Current Practice January 2018
8252 OAuth 2.0 for Native AppsW. Denniss, J. Bradley Best Current Practice October 2017
8207 BGPsec Operational ConsiderationsR. Bush Best Current Practice September 2017
8190 Updates to the Special-Purpose IP Address RegistriesR. Bonica, M. Cotton, B. Haberman, L. Vegoda Best Current Practice June 2017
8180 Minimal IPv6 over the TSCH Mode of IEEE 802.15.4e (6TiSCH) ConfigurationX. Vilajosana, Ed., K. Pister, T. Watteyne Best Current Practice May 2017
8179 Intellectual Property Rights in IETF TechnologyS. Bradner, J. Contreras Best Current Practice May 2017
8174 Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key WordsB. Leiba Best Current Practice May 2017
8126 Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsM. Cotton, B. Leiba, T. Narten Best Current Practice June 2017
8109 Initializing a DNS Resolver with Priming QueriesP. Koch, M. Larson, P. Hoffman · obsoleted by RFC 9609 Best Current Practice March 2017
8085 UDP Usage GuidelinesL. Eggert, G. Fairhurst, G. Shepherd Best Current Practice March 2017
8084 Network Transport Circuit BreakersG. Fairhurst Best Current Practice March 2017
8067 Updating When Standards Track Documents May Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower LevelB. Leiba Best Current Practice January 2017
8027 DNSSEC Roadblock AvoidanceW. Hardaker, O. Gudmundsson, S. Krishnaswamy Best Current Practice November 2016
7957 DISPATCH-Style Working Groups and the SIP Change ProcessB. Campbell, Ed., A. Cooper, B. Leiba Best Current Practice August 2016
7942 Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status SectionY. Sheffer, A. Farrel Best Current Practice July 2016
7934 Host Address Availability RecommendationsL. Colitti, V. Cerf, S. Cheshire, D. Schinazi Best Current Practice July 2016
7926 Problem Statement and Architecture for Information Exchange between Interconnected Traffic-Engineered NetworksA. Farrel, Ed., J. Drake, N. Bitar, G. Swallow, D. Ceccarelli, X. Zhang Best Current Practice July 2016
7857 Updates to Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral RequirementsR. Penno, S. Perreault, M. Boucadair, Ed., S. Sivakumar, K. Naito Best Current Practice April 2016
7803 Changing the Registration Policy for the NETCONF Capability URNs RegistryB. Leiba Best Current Practice February 2016
7793 Adding 100.64.0.0/10 Prefixes to the IPv4 Locally-Served DNS Zones RegistryM. Andrews Best Current Practice May 2016
7776 IETF Anti-Harassment ProceduresP. Resnick, A. Farrel Best Current Practice March 2016
7772 Reducing Energy Consumption of Router AdvertisementsA. Yourtchenko, L. Colitti Best Current Practice February 2016
7720 DNS Root Name Service Protocol and Deployment RequirementsM. Blanchet, L-J. Liman Best Current Practice December 2015
7696 Guidelines for Cryptographic Algorithm Agility and Selecting Mandatory-to-Implement AlgorithmsR. Housley Best Current Practice November 2015
7691 Updating the Term Dates of IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) MembersS. Bradner, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8711 Best Current Practice November 2015
7610 DHCPv6-Shield: Protecting against Rogue DHCPv6 ServersF. Gont, W. Liu, G. Van de Velde Best Current Practice August 2015
7608 IPv6 Prefix Length Recommendation for ForwardingM. Boucadair, A. Petrescu, F. Baker Best Current Practice July 2015
7605 Recommendations on Using Assigned Transport Port NumbersJ. Touch Best Current Practice August 2015
7595 Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI SchemesD. Thaler, Ed., T. Hansen, T. Hardie Best Current Practice June 2015
7567 IETF Recommendations Regarding Active Queue ManagementF. Baker, Ed., G. Fairhurst, Ed. Best Current Practice July 2015
7526 Deprecating the Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay RoutersO. Troan, B. Carpenter, Ed. Best Current Practice May 2015
7525 Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)Y. Sheffer, R. Holz, P. Saint-Andre · obsoleted by RFC 9325 Best Current Practice May 2015
7475 Increasing the Number of Area Directors in an IETF AreaS. Dawkins Best Current Practice March 2015
7454 BGP Operations and SecurityJ. Durand, I. Pepelnjak, G. Doering Best Current Practice February 2015
7437 IAB, IESG, and IAOC Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall CommitteesM. Kucherawy, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8713 Best Current Practice January 2015
7423 Diameter Applications Design GuidelinesL. Morand, Ed., V. Fajardo, H. Tschofenig Best Current Practice November 2014
7382 Template for a Certification Practice Statement (CPS) for the Resource PKI (RPKI)S. Kent, D. Kong, K. Seo Best Current Practice April 2015
7320 URI Design and OwnershipM. Nottingham · obsoleted by RFC 8820 Best Current Practice July 2014
7319 IANA Considerations for Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Code PointsD. Eastlake 3rd Best Current Practice July 2014
7300 Reservation of Last Autonomous System (AS) NumbersJ. Haas, J. Mitchell Best Current Practice July 2014
7279 An Acceptable Use Policy for New ICMP Types and CodesM. Shore, C. Pignataro Best Current Practice May 2014
7258 Pervasive Monitoring Is an AttackS. Farrell, H. Tschofenig Best Current Practice May 2014
7227 Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 OptionsD. Hankins, T. Mrugalski, M. Siodelski, S. Jiang, S. Krishnan Best Current Practice May 2014
7154 IETF Guidelines for ConductS. Moonesamy, Ed. Best Current Practice March 2014
7141 Byte and Packet Congestion NotificationB. Briscoe, J. Manner Best Current Practice February 2014
7127 Characterization of Proposed StandardsO. Kolkman, S. Bradner, S. Turner Best Current Practice January 2014
7126 Recommendations on Filtering of IPv4 Packets Containing IPv4 OptionsF. Gont, R. Atkinson, C. Pignataro Best Current Practice February 2014
7120 Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code PointsM. Cotton Best Current Practice January 2014
7115 Origin Validation Operation Based on the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)R. Bush Best Current Practice January 2014
7100 Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary DocumentP. Resnick Best Current Practice December 2013
7042 IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol and Documentation Usage for IEEE 802 ParametersD. Eastlake 3rd, J. Abley · obsoleted by RFC 9542 Best Current Practice October 2013
7013 Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Information ElementsB. Trammell, B. Claise Best Current Practice September 2013
6996 Autonomous System (AS) Reservation for Private UseJ. Mitchell Best Current Practice July 2013
6963 A Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespace for ExamplesP. Saint-Andre Best Current Practice May 2013
6916 Algorithm Agility Procedure for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)R. Gagliano, S. Kent, S. Turner Best Current Practice April 2013
6895 Domain Name System (DNS) IANA ConsiderationsD. Eastlake 3rd Best Current Practice April 2013
6890 Special-Purpose IP Address RegistriesM. Cotton, L. Vegoda, R. Bonica, Ed., B. Haberman Best Current Practice April 2013
6888 Common Requirements for Carrier-Grade NATs (CGNs)S. Perreault, Ed., I. Yamagata, S. Miyakawa, A. Nakagawa, H. Ashida Best Current Practice April 2013
6881 Best Current Practice for Communications Services in Support of Emergency CallingB. Rosen, J. Polk Best Current Practice March 2013
6859 Update to RFC 3777 to Clarify Nominating Committee Eligibility of IETF LeadershipB. Leiba · obsoleted by RFC 7437 Best Current Practice January 2013
6853 DHCPv6 Redundancy Deployment ConsiderationsJ. Brzozowski, J. Tremblay, J. Chen, T. Mrugalski Best Current Practice February 2013
6838 Media Type Specifications and Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin, T. Hansen Best Current Practice January 2013
6649 Deprecate DES, RC4-HMAC-EXP, and Other Weak Cryptographic Algorithms in KerberosL. Hornquist Astrand, T. Yu Best Current Practice July 2012
6648 Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application ProtocolsP. Saint-Andre, D. Crocker, M. Nottingham Best Current Practice June 2012
6598 IANA-Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address SpaceJ. Weil, V. Kuarsingh, C. Donley, C. Liljenstolpe, M. Azinger Best Current Practice April 2012
6576 IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Standard Advancement TestingR. Geib, Ed., A. Morton, R. Fardid, A. Steinmitz Best Current Practice March 2012
6557 Procedures for Maintaining the Time Zone DatabaseE. Lear, P. Eggert Best Current Practice February 2012
6540 IPv6 Support Required for All IP-Capable NodesW. George, C. Donley, C. Liljenstolpe, L. Howard Best Current Practice April 2012
6489 Certification Authority (CA) Key Rollover in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)G. Huston, G. Michaelson, S. Kent Best Current Practice February 2012
6484 Certificate Policy (CP) for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)S. Kent, D. Kong, K. Seo, R. Watro Best Current Practice February 2012
6472 Recommendation for Not Using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGPW. Kumari, K. Sriram · obsoleted by RFC 9774 Best Current Practice December 2011
6441 Time to Remove Filters for Previously Unallocated IPv4 /8sL. Vegoda Best Current Practice November 2011
6410 Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity LevelsR. Housley, D. Crocker, E. Burger Best Current Practice October 2011
6398 IP Router Alert Considerations and UsageF. Le Faucheur, Ed. Best Current Practice October 2011
6390 Guidelines for Considering New Performance Metric DevelopmentA. Clark, B. Claise Best Current Practice October 2011
6382 Unique Origin Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) per Node for Globally Anycasted ServicesD. McPherson, R. Donnelly, F. Scalzo Best Current Practice October 2011
6377 DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Mailing ListsM. Kucherawy Best Current Practice September 2011
6365 Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETFP. Hoffman, J. Klensin Best Current Practice September 2011
6335 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number RegistryM. Cotton, L. Eggert, J. Touch, M. Westerlund, S. Cheshire Best Current Practice August 2011
6328 IANA Considerations for Network Layer Protocol IdentifiersD. Eastlake 3rd Best Current Practice July 2011
6303 Locally Served DNS ZonesM. Andrews Best Current Practice July 2011
6302 Logging Recommendations for Internet-Facing ServersA. Durand, I. Gashinsky, D. Lee, S. Sheppard Best Current Practice June 2011
6291 Guidelines for the Use of the "OAM" Acronym in the IETFL. Andersson, H. van Helvoort, R. Bonica, D. Romascanu, S. Mansfield Best Current Practice June 2011
6280 An Architecture for Location and Location Privacy in Internet ApplicationsR. Barnes, M. Lepinski, A. Cooper, J. Morris, H. Tschofenig, H. Schulzrinne Best Current Practice July 2011
6195 Domain Name System (DNS) IANA ConsiderationsD. Eastlake 3rd · obsoleted by RFC 6895 Best Current Practice March 2011
6191 Reducing the TIME-WAIT State Using TCP TimestampsF. Gont Best Current Practice April 2011
6177 IPv6 Address Assignment to End SitesT. Narten, G. Huston, L. Roberts Best Current Practice March 2011
6158 RADIUS Design GuidelinesA. DeKok, Ed., G. Weber Best Current Practice March 2011
6056 Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port RandomizationM. Larsen, F. Gont Best Current Practice January 2011
5855 Nameservers for IPv4 and IPv6 Reverse ZonesJ. Abley, T. Manderson Best Current Practice May 2010
5774 Considerations for Civic Addresses in the Presence Information Data Format Location Object (PIDF-LO): Guidelines and IANA Registry DefinitionK. Wolf, A. Mayrhofer Best Current Practice March 2010
5771 IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address AssignmentsM. Cotton, L. Vegoda, D. Meyer Best Current Practice March 2010
5742 IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream SubmissionsH. Alvestrand, R. Housley Best Current Practice December 2009
5735 Special Use IPv4 AddressesM. Cotton, L. Vegoda · obsoleted by RFC 6890 Best Current Practice January 2010
5727 Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure AreaJ. Peterson, C. Jennings, R. Sparks Best Current Practice March 2010
5680 The Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing NomineesS. Dawkins, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 7437 Best Current Practice October 2009
5657 Guidance on Interoperation and Implementation Reports for Advancement to Draft StandardL. Dusseault, R. Sparks Best Current Practice September 2009
5646 Tags for Identifying LanguagesA. Phillips, Ed., M. Davis, Ed. Best Current Practice September 2009
5633 Nominating Committee Process: Earlier Announcement of Open Positions and Solicitation of VolunteersS. Dawkins, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 7437 Best Current Practice August 2009
5625 DNS Proxy Implementation GuidelinesR. Bellis Best Current Practice August 2009
5615 H.248/MEGACO Registration ProceduresC. Groves, Y. Lin Best Current Practice August 2009
5597 Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for the Datagram Congestion Control ProtocolR. Denis-Courmont Best Current Practice September 2009
5589 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Control - TransferR. Sparks, A. Johnston, Ed., D. Petrie Best Current Practice June 2009
5508 NAT Behavioral Requirements for ICMPP. Srisuresh, B. Ford, S. Sivakumar, S. Guha Best Current Practice April 2009
5407 Example Call Flows of Race Conditions in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)M. Hasebe, J. Koshiko, Y. Suzuki, T. Yoshikawa, P. Kyzivat Best Current Practice December 2008
5406 Guidelines for Specifying the Use of IPsec Version 2S. Bellovin Best Current Practice February 2009
5405 Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application DesignersL. Eggert, G. Fairhurst · obsoleted by RFC 8085 Best Current Practice November 2008
5395 Domain Name System (DNS) IANA ConsiderationsD. Eastlake 3rd · obsoleted by RFC 6195 Best Current Practice November 2008
5383 Deployment Considerations for Lemonade-Compliant Mobile EmailR. Gellens Best Current Practice October 2008
5382 NAT Behavioral Requirements for TCPS. Guha, Ed., K. Biswas, B. Ford, S. Sivakumar, P. Srisuresh Best Current Practice October 2008
5378 Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF TrustS. Bradner, Ed., J. Contreras, Ed. Best Current Practice November 2008
5359 Session Initiation Protocol Service ExamplesA. Johnston, Ed., R. Sparks, C. Cunningham, S. Donovan, K. Summers Best Current Practice October 2008
5358 Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers in Reflector AttacksJ. Damas, F. Neves Best Current Practice October 2008
5342 IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol Usage for IEEE 802 ParametersD. Eastlake 3rd · obsoleted by RFC 7042 Best Current Practice September 2008
5266 Secure Connectivity and Mobility Using Mobile IPv4 and IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming (MOBIKE)V. Devarapalli, P. Eronen Best Current Practice June 2008
5249 Templates for Internet-Drafts Containing MIB ModulesD. Harrington, Ed. Best Current Practice July 2008
5248 A Registry for SMTP Enhanced Mail System Status CodesT. Hansen, J. Klensin Best Current Practice June 2008
5237 IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol FieldJ. Arkko, S. Bradner Best Current Practice February 2008
5226 Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 8126 Best Current Practice May 2008
5137 ASCII Escaping of Unicode CharactersJ. Klensin Best Current Practice February 2008
5135 IP Multicast Requirements for a Network Address Translator (NAT) and a Network Address Port Translator (NAPT)D. Wing, T. Eckert Best Current Practice February 2008
5068 Email Submission Operations: Access and Accountability RequirementsC. Hutzler, D. Crocker, P. Resnick, E. Allman, T. Finch Best Current Practice November 2007
5033 Specifying New Congestion Control AlgorithmsS. Floyd, M. Allman · obsoleted by RFC 9743 Best Current Practice August 2007
4962 Guidance for Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) Key ManagementR. Housley, B. Aboba Best Current Practice July 2007
4961 Symmetric RTP / RTP Control Protocol (RTCP)D. Wing Best Current Practice July 2007
4940 IANA Considerations for OSPFK. Kompella, B. Fenner Best Current Practice July 2007
4929 Change Process for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Protocols and ProceduresL. Andersson, Ed., A. Farrel, Ed. Best Current Practice June 2007
4928 Avoiding Equal Cost Multipath Treatment in MPLS NetworksG. Swallow, S. Bryant, L. Andersson Best Current Practice June 2007
4897 Handling Normative References to Standards-Track DocumentsJ. Klensin, S. Hartman Best Current Practice June 2007
4879 Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC 3979T. Narten · obsoleted by RFC 8179 Best Current Practice April 2007
4841 RFC 4181 Update to Recognize the IETF TrustC. Heard, Ed. Best Current Practice March 2007
4787 Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDPF. Audet, Ed., C. Jennings Best Current Practice January 2007
4786 Operation of Anycast ServicesJ. Abley, K. Lindqvist Best Current Practice December 2006
4775 Procedures for Protocol Extensions and VariationsS. Bradner, B. Carpenter, Ed., T. Narten Best Current Practice December 2006
4774 Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) FieldS. Floyd Best Current Practice November 2006
4748 RFC 3978 Update to Recognize the IETF TrustS. Bradner, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5378 Best Current Practice October 2006
4697 Observed DNS Resolution MisbehaviorM. Larson, P. Barber Best Current Practice October 2006
4647 Matching of Language TagsA. Phillips, Ed., M. Davis, Ed. Best Current Practice September 2006
4646 Tags for Identifying LanguagesA. Phillips, M. Davis · obsoleted by RFC 5646 Best Current Practice September 2006
4632 Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation PlanV. Fuller, T. Li Best Current Practice August 2006
4611 Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Deployment ScenariosM. McBride, J. Meylor, D. Meyer Best Current Practice August 2006
4608 Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8D. Meyer, R. Rockell, G. Shepherd Best Current Practice August 2006
4579 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Control - Conferencing for User AgentsA. Johnston, O. Levin Best Current Practice August 2006
4521 Considerations for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) ExtensionsK. Zeilenga Best Current Practice June 2006
4520 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)K. Zeilenga Best Current Practice June 2006
4497 Interworking between the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and QSIGJ. Elwell, F. Derks, P. Mourot, O. Rousseau Best Current Practice May 2006
4446 IANA Allocations for Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3)L. Martini Best Current Practice April 2006
4395 Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI SchemesT. Hansen, T. Hardie, L. Masinter · obsoleted by RFC 7595 Best Current Practice February 2006
4384 BGP Communities for Data CollectionD. Meyer Best Current Practice February 2006
4371 BCP 101 Update for IPR TrustB. Carpenter, Ed., L. Lynch, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8714 Best Current Practice January 2006
4333 The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) Member Selection Guidelines and ProcessG. Huston, Ed., B. Wijnen, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8711 Best Current Practice December 2005
4289 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin Best Current Practice December 2005
4288 Media Type Specifications and Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin · obsoleted by RFC 6838 Best Current Practice December 2005
4222 Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Version 2 Packets and Congestion AvoidanceG. Choudhury, Ed. Best Current Practice October 2005
4181 Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of MIB DocumentsC. Heard, Ed. Best Current Practice September 2005
4170 Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP (TCRTP)B. Thompson, T. Koren, D. Wing Best Current Practice November 2005
4159 Deprecation of "ip6.int"G. Huston Best Current Practice August 2005
4148 IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Metrics RegistryE. Stephan · obsoleted by RFC 6248 Best Current Practice August 2005
4107 Guidelines for Cryptographic Key ManagementS. Bellovin, R. Housley Best Current Practice June 2005
4086 Randomness Requirements for SecurityD. Eastlake 3rd, J. Schiller, S. Crocker Best Current Practice June 2005
4085 Embedding Globally-Routable Internet Addresses Considered HarmfulD. Plonka Best Current Practice June 2005
4084 Terminology for Describing Internet ConnectivityJ. Klensin Best Current Practice May 2005
4071 Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA)R. Austein, Ed., B. Wijnen, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8711 Best Current Practice April 2005
4053 Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETFS. Trowbridge, S. Bradner, F. Baker Best Current Practice April 2005
4052 IAB Processes for Management of IETF Liaison RelationshipsL. Daigle, Ed., Internet Architecture Board Best Current Practice April 2005
4020 Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code PointsK. Kompella, A. Zinin · obsoleted by RFC 7120 Best Current Practice March 2005
3979 Intellectual Property Rights in IETF TechnologyS. Bradner, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 8179 Best Current Practice March 2005
3978 IETF Rights in ContributionsS. Bradner, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 5378 Best Current Practice March 2005
3969 The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)G. Camarillo Best Current Practice December 2004
3968 The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Header Field Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)G. Camarillo Best Current Practice December 2004
3967 Clarifying when Standards Track Documents may Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower LevelR. Bush, T. Narten Best Current Practice January 2005
3936 Procedures for Modifying the Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP)K. Kompella, J. Lang Best Current Practice October 2004
3935 A Mission Statement for the IETFH. Alvestrand Best Current Practice October 2004
3934 Updates to RFC 2418 Regarding the Management of IETF Mailing ListsM. Wasserman · obsoleted by RFC 9945 Best Current Practice October 2004
3933 A Model for IETF Process ExperimentsJ. Klensin, S. Dawkins Best Current Practice November 2004
3932 The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: ProceduresH. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 5742 Best Current Practice October 2004
3901 DNS IPv6 Transport Operational GuidelinesA. Durand, J. Ihren · obsoleted by RFC 10001 Best Current Practice September 2004
3864 Registration Procedures for Message Header FieldsG. Klyne, M. Nottingham, J. Mogul Best Current Practice September 2004
3819 Advice for Internet Subnetwork DesignersP. Karn, Ed., C. Bormann, G. Fairhurst, D. Grossman, R. Ludwig, J. Mahdavi, G. Montenegro, J. Touch, L. Wood Best Current Practice July 2004
3818 IANA Considerations for the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)V. Schryver Best Current Practice June 2004
3785 Use of Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) Metric as a second MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE) MetricF. Le Faucheur, R. Uppili, A. Vedrenne, P. Merckx, T. Telkamp Best Current Practice May 2004
3777 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall CommitteesJ. Galvin, Ed. · obsoleted by RFC 7437 Best Current Practice June 2004
3766 Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric KeysH. Orman, P. Hoffman Best Current Practice April 2004
3725 Best Current Practices for Third Party Call Control (3pcc) in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)J. Rosenberg, J. Peterson, H. Schulzrinne, G. Camarillo Best Current Practice April 2004
3704 Ingress Filtering for Multihomed NetworksF. Baker, P. Savola Best Current Practice March 2004
3692 Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered UsefulT. Narten Best Current Practice January 2004
3688 The IETF XML RegistryM. Mealling Best Current Practice January 2004
3683 A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing ListsM. Rose · obsoleted by RFC 9945 Best Current Practice March 2004
3681 Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPAR. Bush, R. Fink Best Current Practice January 2004
3677 IETF ISOC Board of Trustee Appointment ProceduresL. Daigle, Ed., Internet Architecture Board Best Current Practice December 2003
3668 Intellectual Property Rights in IETF TechnologyS. Bradner · obsoleted by RFC 3979 Best Current Practice February 2004
3667 IETF Rights in ContributionsS. Bradner · obsoleted by RFC 3978 Best Current Practice February 2004
3666 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Call FlowsA. Johnston, S. Donovan, R. Sparks, C. Cunningham, K. Summers Best Current Practice January 2004
3665 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Basic Call Flow ExamplesA. Johnston, S. Donovan, R. Sparks, C. Cunningham, K. Summers Best Current Practice January 2004
3584 Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management FrameworkR. Frye, D. Levi, S. Routhier, B. Wijnen Best Current Practice August 2003
3553 An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol ParametersM. Mealling, L. Masinter, T. Hardie, G. Klyne Best Current Practice June 2003
3552 Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security ConsiderationsE. Rescorla, B. Korver Best Current Practice July 2003
3481 TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless NetworksH. Inamura, Ed., G. Montenegro, Ed., R. Ludwig, A. Gurtov, F. Khafizov Best Current Practice February 2003
3470 Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF ProtocolsS. Hollenbeck, M. Rose, L. Masinter Best Current Practice January 2003
3449 TCP Performance Implications of Network Path AsymmetryH. Balakrishnan, V. Padmanabhan, G. Fairhurst, M. Sooriyabandara Best Current Practice December 2002
3438 Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations UpdateW. Townsley Best Current Practice December 2002
3427 Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)A. Mankin, S. Bradner, R. Mahy, D. Willis, J. Ott, B. Rosen · obsoleted by RFC 5727 Best Current Practice December 2002
3406 Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition MechanismsL. Daigle, D. van Gulik, R. Iannella, P. Faltstrom · obsoleted by RFC 8141 Best Current Practice October 2002
3405 Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Five: URI.ARPA Assignment ProceduresM. Mealling Best Current Practice October 2002
3383 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)K. Zeilenga · obsoleted by RFC 4520 Best Current Practice September 2002
3372 Session Initiation Protocol for Telephones (SIP-T): Context and ArchitecturesA. Vemuri, J. Peterson Best Current Practice September 2002
3366 Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ)G. Fairhurst, L. Wood Best Current Practice September 2002
3365 Strong Security Requirements for Internet Engineering Task Force Standard ProtocolsJ. Schiller Best Current Practice August 2002
3360 Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered HarmfulS. Floyd Best Current Practice August 2002
3349 A Transient Prefix for Identifying Profiles under Development by the Working Groups of the Internet Engineering Task ForceM. Rose Best Current Practice August 2002
3233 Defining the IETFP. Hoffman, S. Bradner Best Current Practice February 2002
3228 IANA Considerations for IPv4 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)B. Fenner · obsoleted by RFC 9778 Best Current Practice February 2002
3227 Guidelines for Evidence Collection and ArchivingD. Brezinski, T. Killalea Best Current Practice February 2002
3205 On the use of HTTP as a SubstrateK. Moore · obsoleted by RFC 9205 Best Current Practice February 2002
3184 IETF Guidelines for ConductS. Harris · obsoleted by RFC 7154 Best Current Practice October 2001
3180 GLOP Addressing in 233/8D. Meyer, P. Lothberg Best Current Practice September 2001
3172 Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa")G. Huston, Ed. Best Current Practice September 2001
3171 IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address AssignmentsZ. Albanna, K. Almeroth, D. Meyer, M. Schipper · obsoleted by RFC 5771 Best Current Practice August 2001
3155 End-to-end Performance Implications of Links with ErrorsS. Dawkins, G. Montenegro, M. Kojo, V. Magret, N. Vaidya Best Current Practice August 2001
3152 Delegation of IP6.ARPAR. Bush · obsoleted by RFC 3596 Best Current Practice August 2001
3150 End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow LinksS. Dawkins, G. Montenegro, M. Kojo, V. Magret Best Current Practice July 2001
3066 Tags for the Identification of LanguagesH. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 4646, RFC 4647 Best Current Practice January 2001
3013 Recommended Internet Service Provider Security Services and ProceduresT. Killalea Best Current Practice November 2000
3005 IETF Discussion List CharterS. Harris · obsoleted by RFC 9245 Best Current Practice November 2000
2978 IANA Charset Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Postel Best Current Practice October 2000
2964 Use of HTTP State ManagementK. Moore, N. Freed Best Current Practice October 2000
2939 Procedures and IANA Guidelines for Definition of New DHCP Options and Message TypesR. Droms Best Current Practice September 2000
2929 Domain Name System (DNS) IANA ConsiderationsD. Eastlake 3rd, E. Brunner-Williams, B. Manning · obsoleted by RFC 5395 Best Current Practice September 2000
2914 Congestion Control PrinciplesS. Floyd Best Current Practice September 2000
2870 Root Name Server Operational RequirementsR. Bush, D. Karrenberg, M. Kosters, R. Plzak · obsoleted by RFC 7720 Best Current Practice June 2000
2850 Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)Internet Architecture Board, B. Carpenter, Ed. Best Current Practice May 2000
2827 Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address SpoofingP. Ferguson, D. Senie Best Current Practice May 2000
2780 IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related HeadersS. Bradner, V. Paxson Best Current Practice March 2000
2736 Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format SpecificationsM. Handley, C. Perkins Best Current Practice December 1999
2727 IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall CommitteesJ. Galvin · obsoleted by RFC 3777 Best Current Practice February 2000
2717 Registration Procedures for URL Scheme NamesR. Petke, I. King · obsoleted by RFC 4395 Best Current Practice November 1999
2644 Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in RoutersD. Senie Best Current Practice August 1999
2611 URN Namespace Definition MechanismsL. Daigle, D. van Gulik, R. Iannella, P. Faltstrom · obsoleted by RFC 3406 Best Current Practice June 1999
2606 Reserved Top Level DNS NamesD. Eastlake 3rd, A. Panitz Best Current Practice June 1999
2506 Media Feature Tag Registration ProcedureK. Holtman, A. Mutz, T. Hardie Best Current Practice March 1999
2505 Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAsG. Lindberg Best Current Practice February 1999
2489 Procedure for Defining New DHCP OptionsR. Droms · obsoleted by RFC 2939 Best Current Practice January 1999
2488 Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard MechanismsM. Allman, D. Glover, L. Sanchez Best Current Practice January 1999
2438 Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards TrackM. O'Dell, H. Alvestrand, B. Wijnen, S. Bradner Best Current Practice October 1998
2434 Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCsT. Narten, H. Alvestrand · obsoleted by RFC 5226 Best Current Practice October 1998
2418 IETF Working Group Guidelines and ProceduresS. Bradner Best Current Practice September 1998
2379 RSVP over ATM Implementation GuidelinesL. Berger Best Current Practice August 1998
2365 Administratively Scoped IP MulticastD. Meyer Best Current Practice July 1998
2360 Guide for Internet Standards WritersG. Scott Best Current Practice June 1998
2350 Expectations for Computer Security Incident ResponseN. Brownlee, E. Guttman Best Current Practice June 1998
2317 Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegationH. Eidnes, G. de Groot, P. Vixie Best Current Practice March 1998
2277 IETF Policy on Character Sets and LanguagesH. Alvestrand Best Current Practice January 1998
2219 Use of DNS Aliases for Network ServicesM. Hamilton, R. Wright Best Current Practice October 1997
2182 Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS ServersR. Elz, R. Bush, S. Bradner, M. Patton Best Current Practice July 1997
2148 Deployment of the Internet White Pages ServiceH. Alvestrand, P. Jurg Best Current Practice September 1997
2119 Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement LevelsS. Bradner Best Current Practice March 1997
2048 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration ProceduresN. Freed, J. Klensin, J. Postel · obsoleted by RFC 4288, RFC 4289 Best Current Practice November 1996
2028 The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards ProcessR. Hovey, S. Bradner · obsoleted by RFC 9281 Best Current Practice October 1996
2026 The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3S. Bradner Best Current Practice October 1996
2014 IRTF Research Group Guidelines and ProceduresA. Weinrib, J. Postel Best Current Practice October 1996
2008 Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet RoutingY. Rekhter, T. Li Best Current Practice October 1996
1984 IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the InternetIAB, IESG Best Current Practice August 1996
1930 Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS)J. Hawkinson, T. Bates Best Current Practice March 1996
1918 Address Allocation for Private InternetsY. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot, E. Lear Best Current Practice February 1996
1917 An Appeal to the Internet Community to Return Unused IP Networks (Prefixes) to the IANAP. Nesser II Best Current Practice February 1996
1915 Variance for The PPP Compression Control Protocol and The PPP Encryption Control ProtocolF. Kastenholz Best Current Practice February 1996