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Introduction to the Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Standards Track and Experimental Documents

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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



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