Best Current Practice RFCs
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[BCP 1, RFC 1818] Best Current Practices.

[BCP 2, RFC 1871] Addendum to RFC 1602 -- Variance Procedure.

[BCP 3, RFC 1915] Variance for The PPP Connection Control Protocol and The PPP Encryption Control Protocol.

[BCP 4, RFC 1917] An Appeal to the Internet Community to Return Unused IP Networks (Prefixes) to the IANA.

[BCP 5, RFC 1918] Address Allocation for Private Internets.

[BCP 6, RFC 1930] Guidelines for creation, selection, and registration of an Autonomous System (AS).

[BCP 7, RFC 2008] Implications of Various Address Allocation Policies for Internet Routing.

[BCP 8, RFC 2014] IRTF Research Group Guidelines and Procedures.

[BCP 9, RFC 2026] The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3.

[BCP 10, RFC 3777] IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees.

[BCP 11, RFC 2028] The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process.

[BCP 12, RFC 2050] INTERNET REGISTRY IP ALLOCATION GUIDELINES.

[BCP 13, RFC 4288] Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures.

[BCP 13, RFC 4289] Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures.

[BCP 14, RFC 2119] Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels.

[BCP 15, RFC 2148] Deployment of the Internet White Pages Service.

[BCP 16, RFC 2182] Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS Servers.

[BCP 17, RFC 2219] Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services.

[BCP 18, RFC 2277] IETF Policy on Character Sets and Languages.

[BCP 19, RFC 2978] IANA Charset Registration Procedures.

[BCP 20, RFC 2317] Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation.

[BCP 21, RFC 2350] Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response.

[BCP 22, RFC 2360] Guide for Internet Standards Writers.

[BCP 23, RFC 2365] Administratively Scoped IP Multicast.

[BCP 24, RFC 2379] RSVP over ATM Implementation Guidelines.

[BCP 25, RFC 2418] IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures.

[BCP 26, RFC 2434] Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs.

[BCP 27, RFC 2438] Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track.

[BCP 28, RFC 2488] Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using Standard Mechanisms.

[BCP 29, RFC 2489] Procedure for Defining New DHCP Options.

[BCP 30, RFC 2505] Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs.

[BCP 31, RFC 2506] Media Feature Tag Registration Procedure.

[BCP 32, RFC 2606] Reserved Top Level DNS Names.

[BCP 33, RFC 2611] URN Namespace Definition Mechanisms.

[BCP 34, RFC 2644] Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in Routers.

[BCP 36, RFC 2736] Guidelines for Writers of RTP Payload Format Specifications.

[RFC 2780] IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers.

[RFC 5237] IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field.

[BCP 38, RFC 2827] Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing.

[BCP 39, RFC 2850] Charter of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

[BCP 40, RFC 2870] Root Name Server Operational Requirements.

[BCP 41, RFC 2914] Congestion Control Principles.

[BCP 42, RFC 2929] Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations.

[BCP 43, RFC 2939] Procedures and IANA Guidelines for Definition of New DHCP Options and Message Types.

[BCP 44, RFC 2964] Use of HTTP State Management.

[BCP 45, RFC 3005] IETF Discussion List Charter.

[BCP 46, RFC 3013] Recommended Internet Service Provider Security Services and Procedures.

[BCP 47, RFC 4646] Tags for Identifying Languages.

[BCP 47, RFC 4647] Matching of Language Tags.

[BCP 48, RFC 3150] End-to-end Performance Implications of Slow Links.

[BCP 49, RFC 3152] Delegation of IP6.ARPA.

[BCP 50, RFC 3155] End-to-end Performance Implications of Links with Errors.

[BCP 51, RFC 3171] IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments.

[BCP 52, RFC 3172] Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa").

[BCP 53, RFC 3180] GLOP Addressing in 233/8.

[BCP 54, RFC 3184] IETF Guidelines for Conduct.

[BCP 55, RFC 3227] Guidelines for Evidence Collection and Archiving.

[BCP 56, RFC 3205] On the use of HTTP as a Substrate.

[BCP 57, RFC 3228] IANA Considerations for IPv4 Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).

[BCP 58, RFC 3233] Defining the IETF.

[BCP 59, RFC 3349] A Transient Prefix for Identifying Profiles under Development by the Working Groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

[BCP 60, RFC 3360] Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered Harmful.

[BCP 61, RFC 3365] Strong Security Requirements for Internet Engineering Task Force Standard Protocols.

[BCP 62, RFC 3366] Advice to link designers on link Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ).

[BCP 63, RFC 3372] Session Initiation Protocol for Telephones (SIP-T): Context and Architectures.

[BCP 64, RFC 3383] Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

[BCP 65, RFC 3405] Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Part Five: URI.ARPA Assignment Procedures.

[BCP 66, RFC 3406] Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanisms.

[BCP 67, RFC 3427] Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

[BCP 68, RFC 3438] Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations Update.

[BCP 69, RFC 3449] TCP Performance Implications of Network Path Asymmetry.

[BCP 70, RFC 3470] Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols.

[BCP 71, RFC 3481] TCP over Second (2.5G) and Third (3G) Generation Wireless Networks.

[BCP 72, RFC 3552] Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations.

[BCP 73, RFC 3553] An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters.

[BCP 74, RFC 3584] Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework.

[BCP 75, RFC 3665] Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Basic Call Flow Examples.

[BCP 76, RFC 3666] Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) Call Flows.

[BCP 77, RFC 3677] IETF ISOC Board of Trustee Appointment Procedures.

[BCP 78, RFC 3978] IETF Rights in Contributions.

[BCP 78, RFC 4748] RFC 3978 Update to Recognize the IETF Trust.

[RFC 3979] Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology.

[RFC 4879] Clarification of the Third Party Disclosure Procedure in RFC 3979.

[BCP 80, RFC 3681] Delegation of E.F.F.3.IP6.ARPA.

[BCP 81, RFC 3688] The IETF XML Registry.

[BCP 82, RFC 3692] Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful.

[BCP 83, RFC 3683] A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists.

[BCP 84, RFC 3704] Ingress Filtering for Multihomed Networks.

[BCP 85, RFC 3725] Best Current Practices for Third Party Call Control (3pcc) in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

[BCP 86, RFC 3766] Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric Keys.

[BCP 87, RFC 3785] Use of Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) Metric as a second MPLS Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric.

[BCP 88, RFC 3818] IANA Considerations for the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP).

[BCP 89, RFC 3819] Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers.

[RFC 3864] Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields.

[RFC 3901] DNS IPv6 Transport Operational Guidelines.

[RFC 3932] The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: Procedures.

[RFC 3933] A Model for IETF Process Experiments.

[RFC 3934] Updates to RFC 2418 Regarding the Management of IETF Mailing Lists.

[RFC 3935] A Mission Statement for the IETF.

[RFC 3936] Procedures for Modifying the Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP).

[RFC 3967] Clarifying when Standards Track Documents may Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level.

[RFC 4897] Handling Normative References to Standards-Track Documents.

[RFC 3968] The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Header Field Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

[RFC 3969] The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) Parameter Registry for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

[BCP 100, RFC 4020] Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points.

[BCP 101, RFC 4071] Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA).

[BCP 101, RFC 4371] BCP 101 Update for IPR Trust.

[BCP 102, RFC 4052] IAB Processes for Management of IETF Liaison Relationships.

[BCP 103, RFC 4053] Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the IETF.

[BCP 104, RFC 4084] Terminology for Describing Internet Connectivity.

[BCP 105, RFC 4085] Embedding Globally-Routable Internet Addresses Considered Harmful.

[BCP 106, RFC 4086] Randomness Requirements for Security.

[BCP 107, RFC 4107] Guidelines for Cryptographic Key Management.

[BCP 108, RFC 4148] IP Performance Metrics (IPPM) Metrics Registry.

[BCP 109, RFC 4159] Deprecation of "ip6.int".

[BCP 110, RFC 4170] Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP (TCRTP).

[BCP 111, RFC 4181] Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of MIB Documents.

[BCP 111, RFC 4841] RFC 4181 Update to Recognize the IETF Trust.

[BCP 112, RFC 4222] Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Version 2 Packets and Congestion Avoidance.

[BCP 113, RFC 4333] The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) Member Selection Guidelines and Process.

[BCP 114, RFC 4384] BGP Communities for Data Collection.

[BCP 115, RFC 4395] Guidelines and Registration Procedures for New URI Schemes.

[BCP 116, RFC 4446] IANA Allocations for Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3).

[BCP 119, RFC 4579] Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Call Control - Conferencing for User Agents.

[BCP 120, RFC 4608] Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8.

[BCP 121, RFC 4611] Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Deployment Scenarios.

[BCP 122, RFC 4632] Classless Inter-domain Routing (CIDR): The Internet Address Assignment and Aggregation Plan.

[BCP 123, RFC 4697] Observed DNS Resolution Misbehavior.

[RFC 4774] Specifying Alternate Semantics for the Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field.

[RFC 4775] Procedures for Protocol Extensions and Variations.

[RFC 4786] Operation of Anycast Services.

[BCP 127, RFC 4787] Network Address Translation (NAT) Behavioral Requirements for Unicast UDP.

[RFC 5068] Email Submission Operations: Access and Accountability Requirements.

[RFC 5135] IP Multicast Requirements for a Network Address Translator (NAT) and a Network Address Port Translator (NAPT).

[RFC 5137] ASCII Escaping of Unicode Characters.

Obsolete RFCs:

[RFC 2027] IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees.

[RFC 2048] Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures.

[RFC 2282] IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees.

[RFC 2576] Coexistence between Version 1, Version 2, and Version 3 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework.

[RFC 2717] Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names.

[RFC 2727] IAB and IESG Selection, Confirmation, and Recall Process: Operation of the Nominating and Recall Committees.

[RFC 3066] Tags for the Identification of Languages.

[RFC 3667] IETF Rights in Contributions.

[RFC 3668] Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology.

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