Nearly all TCP/IP-related protocols discussed in this book are described in RFC documents. These documents can be freely downloaded from many sites on the Internet, including http://www.faqs.org. Some RFC documents listed here are referenced in the text explicitly; others provide useful background material.
Internet Protocol, J. Postel, September 1981, 44 pp.
Broadcasting Internet Datagrams in the Presence of Subnets, J. Mogul, October 1984.
Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure, J. Mogul and J. Postel, August 1985.
Routing Information Protocol, C. Hedrick, June 1988, 32 pp.
Host Extensions for IP Multicasting, S. Deering, August 1989.
Path MTU Discovery, J. Mogul and S. Deering, November 1990.
Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges, E. Decker, P. Langille, A. Rijsinghani, and K. McCloghrie, December 1991, 40 pp.
Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5, Juha Heinanen, July 1993, 15 pp.
An Architechure for IP Address Allocation with CIDR, Y. Rekhter and T. Li, September 1993.
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): An Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy, V. Fuller, T. Li, J. Yu, and K. Vanadhan, September 1993.
Host Anycasting Service, C. Partridge, T. Mendez, and W. Milliken, November 1993, 13 pp.
The OSPF NSSA Option, R. Coltun and V. Fuller, March 1994, 15 pp.
Integrated Services in the Internet Architecture: An Overview, R. Braden, D. Clark, and S. Shenker, June 1994.
Assigned Numbers, J. Reynolds and J. Postel, October 1994.
Towards Requirements for IP Routers, P. Almquist and F. Kastenholz, November 1994.
A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4), Y. Rekhter and T. Li, March 1995.
Address Allocation for Private Internets, Y. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. J. de Groot, and E. Lear, February 1996.
Guidelines for Creation, Selection, and Registration of an Autonomous System (AS), J. Hawkinson and T. Bates, March 1996.
Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP)—Version 1 Functional Specification, R. Braden, L. Zhang, S. Berson, and S. Herzog, September 1997.
Classical IP and ARP over ATM, M. Laubach and J. Halpern, April 1998.
Internet Group Management Protocol, Version 2, W. Fenner, November 1997.
OSPF Version 2, J. Moy, April 1998.
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, S. Knight, D. Weaver, D. Whipple, R. Hinden, D. Mitzel, P. Hunt, P. Higginson, M. Shand, and A. Lindem, April 1998.
Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification, D. Estrin, D. Farinacci, A. Helmy, D. Thaler, S. Deering, M. Handley, V. Jacobson, C. Liu, P. Sharma, and L. Wei, June 1998.
Administratively Scoped IP Multicast, D. Meyer, July 1998.
IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture, R. Hinden and S. Deering, July 1998.
IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments, R. Hinden and S. Deering, July 1998.
Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol, S. Kent and R. Atkinson, November 1998.
RIP Version 2, G. Malkin, November 1998.
IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, S. Thomson and T. Narten, December 1998.
Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers, K. Nichols, S. Blake, F. Baker, and D. Black, December 1998.
An Architecture for Differentiated Services, S. Blake, D. Black, M. Carlson, E. Davies, Z. Wang, and W. Weiss, December 1998.
Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains Without Explicit Tunnels, B. Carpenter and C. Jung, March 1999.
Assured Forwarding PHB Group, J. Heinanen, F. Baker, W. Weiss, and J. Wroclawski, June 1999.
An Expedited Forwarding PHB, V. Jacobson, K. Nichols, and K. Poduri, June 1999.
A Two-bit Differentiated Services Architecture for the Internet, K. Nichols, V. Jacobson, and L. Zhang, July 1999.
Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP), S. Hanna, B. Patel, and M. Shah, December 1999.
Multicast-Scope Zone Announcement Protocol (MZAP), M. Handley, D. Thaler and R. Kermode, February 2000.
BGP Route Reflection—an Alternative to Full Mesh IBGP, T. Bates, R. Chandra, and E. Chen, April 2000.
Integrated Service Mappings on IEEE 802 Networks, M. Seaman, A. Smith, E. Crawley, and J. Wroclawski, May 2000.
Internet Official Protocol Standards, J. Reynolds, R. Braden, and S. Ginoza, Editors, August 2001.
IPv4 Multicast Routing MIB, K. McCloghrie, D. Farinacci, and D. Thaler, October 2000.
A Framework for Integrated Services Operation over Diffserv Networks, Y. Bernet, P. Ford, R. Yavatkar, F. Baker, L. Zhang, M. Speer, R. Braden, B. Davie, J. Wroclawski, and E. Felstaine, November 2000.
Overview of 2000 IAB Wireless Internetworking Workshop, D. Mitzel, December 2000.
Autonomous System Confederations for BGP, P. Traina, D. McPherson, and J. Scudder, February 2001.
Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP), M. Gaynor and S. Bradner, 1 April 2001.