Network Working Group Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments: 2900 J. Reynolds Obsoletes: 2800 R. Braden STD: 1 S. Ginoza Category: Standards Track Editors August 2001 Internet Official Protocol Standards Status of this Memo This memo is an Internet Standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This memo contains a snapshot of the state of standardization of protocols used in the Internet as of July 17, 2001. It lists official protocol standards and Best Current Practice RFCs; it is not a complete index to the RFC series. The latest version of this memo is designated STD 1. Table of Contents 1. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.1. Internet-Related Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2.2. Request for Comments Editor (RFC Editor) Web Pages . . . 2 2.3 Retrieval using FTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.4 Search and Retrieval Using Email . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Current Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. Standard Protocols Ordered by STD . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. Standard Protocols Ordered by RFC . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3. Draft Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4. Proposed Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.5. Best Current Practice by BCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3.6. Best Current Practice by RFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3.7. Experimental Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3.8. Historic Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 5. Editors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 6. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 IETF Standards Track