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RFC References

99 key RFCs that define the Internet — curated references with context, significance, and cross-references.

Transport & Internet Layer (20)

RFC 768 Standard

User Datagram Protocol 1980-08 · J. Postel

RFC 791 Standard

Internet Protocol 1981-09 · J. Postel

RFC 792 Standard

Internet Control Message Protocol 1981-09 · J. Postel

RFC 793 Standard

Transmission Control Protocol 1981-09 · J. Postel

RFC 1122 Standard

Requirements for Internet Hosts — Communication Layers 1989-10 · R. Braden

Address Allocation for Private Internets 1996-02 · Y. Rekhter, B. Moskowitz, D. Karrenberg, G. de Groot, E. Lear

RFC 4291 Proposed

IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture 2006-02 · R. Hinden, S. Deering

RFC 4443 Proposed

Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 2006-03 · A. Conta, S. Deering, M. Gupta

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan 2006-08 · V. Fuller, T. Li

RFC 4862 Proposed

IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration 2007-09 · S. Thomson, T. Narten, T. Jinmei

RFC 5681 Proposed

TCP Congestion Control 2009-09 · M. Allman, V. Paxson, E. Blanton

RFC 6437 Proposed

IPv6 Flow Label Specification 2011-11 · S. Amante, B. Carpenter, S. Jiang, J. Rajahalme

Special-Purpose IP Address Registries 2013-04 · M. Cotton, L. Vegoda, R. Bonica, B. Haberman

RFC 7413 Experimental

TCP Fast Open 2014-12 · Y. Cheng, J. Chu, S. Radhakrishnan, A. Jain

RFC 7858 Proposed

Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS) 2016-05 · Z. Hu, L. Zhu, J. Heidemann, A. Mankin, D. Wessels, P. Hoffman

RFC 8200 Standard

Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification 2017-07 · S. Deering, R. Hinden

CUBIC for Fast Long-Distance Networks 2018-02 · I. Rhee, L. Xu, S. Ha, A. Zimmermann, L. Eggert, R. Scheffenegger

RFC 8484 Proposed

DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH) 2018-10 · P. Hoffman, P. McManus

RFC 9250 Proposed

DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections (DoQ) 2022-05 · P. Huitema, S. Dickinson, A. Mankin

RFC 9293 Standard

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) 2022-08 · W. Eddy

Application Layer (25)

RFC 826 Standard

An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol 1982-11 · D. Plummer

RFC 959 Standard

File Transfer Protocol 1985-10 · J. Postel, J. Reynolds

RFC 1034 Standard

Domain Names — Concepts and Facilities 1987-11 · P. Mockapetris

RFC 1035 Standard

Domain Names — Implementation and Specification 1987-11 · P. Mockapetris

RFC 1939 Standard

Post Office Protocol — Version 3 1996-05 · J. Myers, M. Rose

RFC 2131 Proposed

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol 1997-03 · R. Droms

RFC 2616 Proposed

Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1 1999-06 · R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee

RFC 2821 Proposed

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 2001-04 · J. Klensin

RFC 3315 Proposed

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) 2003-07 · R. Droms, J. Bound, B. Volz, T. Lemon, C. Perkins, M. Carney

RFC 3501 Proposed

Internet Message Access Protocol — Version 4rev1 2003-03 · M. Crispin

RFC 4033 Proposed

DNS Security Introduction and Requirements 2005-03 · R. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose

RFC 4035 Proposed

Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security Extensions 2005-03 · R. Arends, R. Austein, M. Larson, D. Massey, S. Rose

RFC 4510 Proposed

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Technical Specification Road Map 2006-06 · K. Zeilenga

RFC 5321 Proposed

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 2008-10 · J. Klensin

RFC 5905 Proposed

Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms Specification 2010-06 · D. Mills, J. Martin, J. Burbank, W. Kasch

RFC 6376 Standard

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures 2011-09 · D. Crocker, T. Hansen, M. Kucherawy

RFC 6455 Proposed

The WebSocket Protocol 2011-12 · I. Fette, A. Melnikov

RFC 7208 Proposed

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email 2014-04 · S. Kitterman

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) 2015-03 · M. Kucherawy, E. Zwicky

RFC 8415 Proposed

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) 2018-11 · T. Mrugalski, M. Siodelski, B. Volz, A. Yourtchenko, M. Richardson, S. Jiang, T. Lemon, T. Winters

RFC 9000 Proposed

QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport 2021-05 · J. Iyengar, M. Thomson

RFC 9110 Standard

HTTP Semantics 2022-06 · R. Fielding, M. Nottingham, J. Reschke

RFC 9112 Standard

HTTP/1.1 2022-06 · R. Fielding, M. Nottingham, J. Reschke

RFC 9113 Proposed

HTTP/2 2022-06 · M. Thomson, C. Benfield

RFC 9114 Proposed

HTTP/3 2022-06 · M. Bishop

Security (25)

RFC 2404 Proposed

The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH 1998-11 · C. Madson, R. Glenn

RFC 3602 Proposed

The AES-CBC Cipher Algorithm and Its Use with IPsec 2003-09 · S. Frankel, R. Glenn, S. Kelly

RFC 4253 Proposed

The Secure Shell (SSH) Transport Layer Protocol 2006-01 · T. Ylonen, C. Lonvick

RFC 4254 Proposed

The Secure Shell (SSH) Connection Protocol 2006-01 · T. Ylonen, C. Lonvick

RFC 4301 Proposed

Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol 2005-12 · S. Kent, K. Seo

RFC 5246 Proposed

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2 2008-08 · T. Dierks, E. Rescorla

RFC 5280 Proposed

Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile 2008-05 · D. Cooper, S. Santesson, S. Farrell, S. Boeyen, R. Housley, W. Polk

RFC 6125 Proposed

Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 2011-03 · P. Saint-Andre, J. Hodges

RFC 6454 Proposed

The Web Origin Concept 2011-12 · A. Barth

RFC 6698 Proposed

The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA 2012-08 · P. Hoffman, J. Schlyter

RFC 6749 Proposed

The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework 2012-10 · D. Hardt

RFC 6797 Proposed

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) 2012-11 · J. Hodges, C. Jackson, A. Barth

RFC 6960 Proposed

X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP 2013-06 · S. Santesson, M. Myers, R. Ankney, A. Malpani, S. Galperin, C. Adams

HTTP Header Field X-Frame-Options 2013-10 · D. Ross, T. Gondrom

RFC 7235 Proposed

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication 2014-06 · R. Fielding, J. Reschke

RFC 7296 Standard

Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2) 2014-10 · C. Kaufman, P. Hoffman, Y. Nir, P. Eronen, T. Kivinen

RFC 7519 Proposed

JSON Web Token (JWT) 2015-05 · M. Jones, J. Bradley, N. Sakimura

RFC 7540 Proposed

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2) 2015-05 · M. Belshe, R. Peon, M. Thomson

Cryptographic Algorithm and Key Usage Update to DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) 2018-01 · S. Kitterman

RFC 8446 Proposed

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 2018-08 · E. Rescorla

RFC 8461 Proposed

SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) 2018-09 · D. Margolis, M. Risher, B. Ramakrishnan, A. Brotman, J. Jones

RFC 8617 Experimental

The Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) Protocol 2019-07 · J. Levine, T. Herkula

RFC 8659 Proposed

DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record 2019-11 · P. Hallam-Baker, R. Stradling, J. Hoffman-Andrews

The WireGuard Protocol 2022-01 · J. A. Donenfeld

A File Format to Aid in Security Vulnerability Disclosure 2022-04 · E. Foudil, Y. Shafranovich

Routing (15)

RFC 2328 Standard

OSPF Version 2 1998-04 · J. Moy

RFC 2453 Standard

RIP Version 2 1998-11 · G. Malkin

Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing 2000-05 · P. Ferguson, D. Senie

RFC 3031 Proposed

Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture 2001-01 · E. Rosen, A. Viswanathan, R. Callon

RFC 4271 Proposed

A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) 2006-01 · Y. Rekhter, T. Li, S. Hares

RFC 4364 Proposed

BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) 2006-02 · E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter

RFC 5340 Proposed

OSPF for IPv6 2008-07 · R. Coltun, D. Ferguson, J. Moy, A. Lindem

Use of Hash Algorithms for IPsec at the Internet Exchange Points 2010-02 · H. Ramalho

An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing 2012-02 · M. Lepinski, S. Kent

RFC 6482 Proposed

A Profile for Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) 2012-02 · M. Lepinski, S. Kent, D. Kong

RFC 6811 Proposed

BGP Prefix Origin Validation 2013-01 · P. Mohapatra, J. Scudder, D. Ward, R. Bush, R. Austein

BGP Operations and Security 2015-02 · J. Durand, I. Pepelnjak, G. Doering

RFC 7911 Proposed

Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP 2016-07 · D. Walton, A. Retana, E. Chen, J. Scudder

RFC 8092 Proposed

BGP Large Communities Attribute 2017-02 · J. Heitz, J. Snijders, K. Patel, I. Bagdonas, N. Hilliard

Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words 2017-05 · B. Leiba

Infrastructure (14)

Domain Name System Structure and Delegation 1994-03 · J. Postel

Variable Length Subnet Table for IPv4 1995-12 · T. Pummill, B. Manning

RFC 1996 Proposed

A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY) 1996-08 · P. Vixie

Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines 1996-11 · K. Hubbard, M. Kosters, D. Conrad, D. Karrenberg, J. Postel

Mailbox Names for Common Services, Roles and Functions 1997-05 · D. Crocker

Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA Delegation 1998-03 · H. Eidnes, G. de Groot, P. Vixie

RFC 2460 Proposed

Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification 1998-12 · S. Deering, R. Hinden

RFC 3596 Proposed

DNS Extensions to Support IP Version 6 2003-10 · S. Thomson, C. Huitema, V. Ksinant, M. Souissi

Special Use IPv4 Addresses 2010-01 · M. Cotton, L. Vegoda

RFC 5966 Proposed

DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation Requirements 2010-08 · R. Bellis

IANA-Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space 2012-04 · J. Weil, V. Kuarsingh, C. Donley, C. Liljenstolpe, M. Azinger

The Internet Numbers Registry System 2013-08 · R. Housley, J. Curran, G. Huston, D. Conrad

Client Subnet in DNS Queries 2016-05 · C. Contavalli, W. van der Gaast, D. Lawrence, W. Kumari

DNS Terminology 2019-01 · P. Hoffman, A. Sullivan, K. Fujiwara