RFCs by Subject

: Application protocols in general

• ACAP6 RFCs

  : ACAP (Application Configuration Access Protocol)

• accessibility6 RFCs

  : Accessibility of Internet communications

• ALTO18 RFCs

  : ALTO (Application-Layer Traffic Optimization)

• APEX4 RFCs

  : Application Exchange (APEX) messaging

• BEEP14 RFCs

  : BEEP (Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol)

• calendaring33 RFCs

  : Calendaring and scheduling

  • CalDAV5 RFCs

    : CalDAV (Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV) calendar access

  • iCalendar24 RFCs

    : iCalendar calendar data format

  • JSCalendar1 RFC

    : JSCalendar, the JSON data model for calendar events, tasks and groups, and its conversions to and from iCalendar

  • time zones7 RFCs

    : Time zone data distribution and timestamps

• directory services175 RFCs

  : Directory services: access and synchronization

  • LDAP119 RFCs

    : LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)

  • X.50083 RFCs

    : The X.500 directory service

• e-commerce15 RFCs

  : E-commerce and payment protocols

  • CyberCash1 RFC

    : CyberCash credit card payment protocol (historic)

  • ECML4 RFCs

    : ECML (Electronic Commerce Modeling Language), field names and formats for passing payment, billing and shipping data to merchant checkout forms

  • IOTP7 RFCs

    : IOTP (Internet Open Trading Protocol)

• eBPF1 RFC

  : eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) instruction set and conventions

• Finger6 RFCs

  : The Finger user information protocol

• FTP86 RFCs

  : FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

• geolocation47 RFCs

  : Geolocation: formats, privacy and conveyance of location information

  • HELD5 RFCs

    : HELD (HTTP-Enabled Location Delivery): acquiring location from a location information server over HTTP, with its identity, dereference and routing extensions

• Gopher4 RFCs

  : The Gopher document retrieval protocol

• IPP25 RFCs

  : IPP (Internet Printing Protocol)

• IRC7 RFCs

  : IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

• LPD2 RFCs

  : LPD (Line Printer Daemon protocol)

• NetBIOS8 RFCs

  : NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System) services over TCP/IP

• P2P35 RFCs

  : Peer-to-Peer overlay networks and applications

• rlogin2 RFCs

  : The BSD rlogin remote login protocol

• small services7 RFCs

  : The TCP/UDP small services: Echo, Discard, Chargen, QOTD, Daytime, Active Users

• sockets API9 RFCs

  : Sockets API extensions

• storage142 RFCs

  : Storage access and block/file protocols over IP

  • AFS1 RFC

    : AFS (Andrew File System), its cells, volume location and DNS-based service discovery

  • fibre channel29 RFCs

    : Fibre Channel over IP transports

    • iFCP7 RFCs

      : iFCP (Internet Fibre Channel Protocol), gateway-to-gateway storage networking that carries Fibre Channel traffic over TCP/IP

  • iSCSI42 RFCs

    : iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface)

  • NFS56 RFCs

    : NFS (Network File System)

  • ONC RPC31 RFCs

    : ONC RPC (Open Network Computing Remote Procedure Call) and XDR

  • RDMA21 RFCs

    : RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) protocols

• Telnet125 RFCs

  : The Telnet protocol and its options

• TFTP16 RFCs

  : TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)

• TIP2 RFCs

  : TIP (Transaction Internet Protocol)

• vCard23 RFCs

  : vCard contact data

  • CardDAV9 RFCs

    : CardDAV (vCard Extensions to WebDAV) address book access

  • JSContact5 RFCs

    : JSContact: JSON representation of contact card data, and its conversion from and to vCard

• WAIS3 RFCs

  : WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers)

• X Window System2 RFCs

  : The X Window System protocol

: The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network): its host and network protocols, operations and working notes

• NCP31 RFCs

  : NCP (Network Control Protocol): the historic ARPANET host-host protocol

• network graphics36 RFCs

  : Early network graphics protocols and formats

• RJE17 RFCs

  : Remote job entry on the early network

• SUPDUP5 RFCs

  : SUPDUP (SUPer-DUPer): display protocol for the ARPANET

: Cryptography: algorithms, modes, parameters and their use in Internet protocols

• AEGIS1 RFC

  : AEGIS authenticated encryption algorithms (AEGIS-128L, AEGIS-256 and their X variants), AES-round based

• AES38 RFCs

  : The AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) block cipher and its modes

• ARIA3 RFCs

  : ARIA: Korean block cipher, its GCM and CCM modes and its use in TLS and CMS

• BLAKE21 RFC

  : BLAKE2: cryptographic hash function and its keyed MAC mode

• Camellia10 RFCs

  : Camellia: 128-bit block cipher, its modes and its cipher suites in TLS, IPsec, CMS and S/MIME

• ChaCha206 RFCs

  : ChaCha20 and Poly1305

• DES19 RFCs

  : DES (Data Encryption Standard) and Triple-DES (historic ciphers)

• elliptic curve71 RFCs

  : Elliptic-Curve Cryptography: elliptic curve cryptography

  • Curve2551910 RFCs

    : Curve25519 and Curve448

  • ECDSA14 RFCs

    : ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) and its curves and encodings

  • EdDSA14 RFCs

    : EdDSA (Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm)

• GOST21 RFCs

  : GOST: Russian national cryptographic algorithms -- block ciphers, hash functions and signature schemes -- and their use in IETF protocols

• HMAC34 RFCs

  : HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code)

• key management91 RFCs

  : Key Management: key establishment, provisioning and storage

  • MIKEY16 RFCs

    : MIKEY (Multimedia Internet KEYing): key establishment for real-time multimedia sessions, including its modes, extensions and algorithm profiles

• MD533 RFCs

  : MD5 (Message Digest 5) and the MD2/MD4 message digests

• OTP13 RFCs

  : One-Time Passwords (One-Time Password) systems

• PAKE17 RFCs

  : PAKE (Password-Authenticated Key Exchange)

  • Dragonfly1 RFC

    : Dragonfly, the balanced key exchange from a shared password that resists offline dictionary attack, and its use in IKE and 802.11 SAE

  • J-PAKE1 RFC

    : J-PAKE (Password-Authenticated Key Exchange by Juggling), the balanced protocol built from zero-knowledge proofs of discrete logarithm, and its TLS and Thread use

  • OPAQUE1 RFC

    : OPAQUE, the asymmetric (augmented) password-authenticated key exchange built on an oblivious pseudorandom function, and its TLS and EAP bindings

  • SPAKE22 RFCs

    : SPAKE2 (Simple Password-Based Encrypted Key Exchange), the CFRG balanced password-authenticated key exchange and its augmented variant

  • SRP3 RFCs

    : SRP (Secure Remote Password), the verifier-based password authentication and key exchange protocol and its use in TLS and EAP

• password hashing5 RFCs

  : Password hashing and memory-hard functions

  • PBKDF23 RFCs

    : PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2), the PKCS #5 iterated key stretching function and its test vectors

  • scrypt1 RFC

    : Memory-hard password-based key derivation and key stretching function, and its parameters and test vectors

• post-quantum32 RFCs

  : Post-Quantum Cryptography and migration

  • hash-based signatures11 RFCs

    : Hash-based signature schemes: stateful HSS/LMS, XMSS and XMSS^MT built from Merkle trees and one-time signatures, and stateless SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+)

    • LMS8 RFCs

      : LMS (Leighton-Micali Signature) stateful hash-based signatures, including HSS and LM-OTS

    • SLH-DSA2 RFCs

      : SLH-DSA (Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm) signatures and their use in IETF protocols

    • XMSS3 RFCs

      : XMSS (eXtended Merkle Signature Scheme) stateful hash-based signatures and their parameters

  • ML-DSA3 RFCs

    : ML-DSA (Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm) signatures and their use in IETF protocols

  • ML-KEM3 RFCs

    : ML-KEM (Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism) key establishment and its use in IETF protocols

• randomness7 RFCs

  : Randomness requirements and generation

• RC47 RFCs

  : RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4): stream cipher, its cipher suites in TLS and SSH, and its deprecation

• RSA29 RFCs

  : RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) encryption and signatures

• SHA40 RFCs

  : The SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm) family of hash functions

: Data formats, encodings and representations in general

• ABNF9 RFCs

  : ABNF (Augmented Backus-Naur Form) and other formal syntax notations

  • RBNF1 RFC

    : RBNF (Routing Backus-Naur Form), the notation used to form encoding rules in routing protocol specifications

• ASN.128 RFCs

  : ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) modules and encoding rules

• Base644 RFCs

  : Base64, Base32, Base16 and Base45 textual data encodings

• CBOR43 RFCs

  : CBOR (Concise Binary Object Representation)

  • CDDL5 RFCs

    : CDDL (Concise Data Definition Language)

• compression62 RFCs

  : Lossless data compression formats

  • Brotli4 RFCs

    : Brotli compression

  • DEFLATE8 RFCs

    : DEFLATE and zlib

  • gzip2 RFCs

    : The gzip file format

  • IPComp5 RFCs

    : IPComp (IP Payload Compression Protocol)

  • LZS4 RFCs

    : LZS (Lempel-Ziv-Stac) compression and its use in PPP, IP payload and TLS

  • zlib3 RFCs

    : zlib compressed data format wrapping DEFLATE streams

  • zstd5 RFCs

    : Zstandard compression

• content negotiation17 RFCs

  : Media feature and content negotiation

• CSV3 RFCs

  : CSV (comma-separated values), the text/csv media type, its records and fields, and fragment identifiers into it

• date-time formats5 RFCs

  : Date and time representation: Internet timestamps (RFC 3339) and extensions

• internationalization115 RFCs

  : Internationalization of text in protocols

  • character sets51 RFCs

    : Character set registration and use

    • ASCII24 RFCs

      : ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), the seven-bit coded character set and its use in text interchange

    • EBCDIC2 RFCs

      : EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), the IBM mainframe character encoding and its translation to and from other character sets

  • language tags13 RFCs

    : Language tags and matching

  • PRECIS9 RFCs

    : PRECIS (Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings) internationalized string handling

  • Unicode31 RFCs

    : Unicode usage in Internet protocols

  • UTF-816 RFCs

    : The UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format, 8-bit) encoding

• JSON84 RFCs

  : JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and JSON-based formats

  • GeoJSON2 RFCs

    : GeoJSON geographic data

  • JSONPath3 RFCs

    : JSONPath query expressions

• Markdown2 RFCs

  : Markdown text formats

• SGML5 RFCs

  : SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)-based document interchange

• XML112 RFCs

  : XML (Extensible Markup Language) usage in protocols and XML-based formats

• YAML1 RFC

  : YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language), the application/yaml media type and its use as a serialisation and configuration format

: Humorous RFCs: the April 1st series and other whimsical documents (poems, parodies)

: Internet Architecture: architectural principles of the Internet

: Internet Governance: how the Internet and its standards are governed, administered, developed and published

• IANA188 RFCs

  : IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) registries, considerations guidance and stewardship

• IETF process325 RFCs

  : IETF Process (Internet Engineering Task Force process): IETF standards process, procedures and administration

  • NomCom12 RFCs

    : IETF NomCom (Nominating Committee) procedures

• IPR21 RFCs

  : IPR (Intellectual Property Rights), copyright and trust legal provisions

• RFC series83 RFCs

  : The RFC Series (Request for Comments): format, style, editor and publication

  • RFCXML3 RFCs

    : RFCXML (RFC XML vocabulary), the XML vocabulary for RFCs and Internet-Drafts (processed by xml2rfc)

• terminology62 RFCs

  : Terminology: glossaries, definitions and requirements language

• user guides45 RFCs

  : User Guides (FYI series): introductory guides and FYI documents for Internet users

• workshop reports50 RFCs

  : Reports from IAB, IRTF and community workshops

: Internet History: histories and retrospectives of the Internet and its protocols

: The IP layer in general: datagram delivery, the protocol suite, network-layer matters

• addressing190 RFCs

  : Addressing: IP address architecture, allocation and use

  • anycast21 RFCs

    : Anycast addressing and operation

  • CIDR17 RFCs

    : CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) and aggregation

  • multihoming37 RFCs

    : Multihoming architectures

    • Shim66 RFCs

      : The Shim6 (Site Multihoming by IPv6 Intermediation) host multihoming shim

  • renumbering15 RFCs

    : Site renumbering procedures

• AppleTalk6 RFCs

  : AppleTalk protocols and tunnelling

• captive portal3 RFCs

  : Captive portal detection and interaction

• DECnet5 RFCs

  : DECnet (Digital Equipment Corporation network protocols) over IP infrastructure

• DHCP168 RFCs

  : DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)

  • DHCPv674 RFCs

    : DHCPv6 (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6): DHCP for IPv6

• DRIP5 RFCs

  : DRIP (Drone Remote Identification Protocol)

• HIP31 RFCs

  : HIP (Host Identity Protocol)

• home networking11 RFCs

  : Home networking: IPv6 home network architecture, prefix assignment, naming and routing

• ICMP37 RFCs

  : ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) for IPv4 and IPv6

• ICN27 RFCs

  : Information-Centric Networking (ICN) and named-data networking

• ILNP9 RFCs

  : ILNP (Identifier-Locator Network Protocol)

• IP mobility175 RFCs

  : IP-layer host and network mobility (Mobile IP and its successors)

  • Mobile IPv422 RFCs

    : Mobile IPv4

  • Mobile IPv691 RFCs

    : Mobile IPv6

  • NEMO16 RFCs

    : NEMO (Network Mobility)

  • PMIPv643 RFCs

    : Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) and network-based mobility

• IPng17 RFCs

  : IPng (IP Next Generation): the historic candidate protocols TUBA, PIP, SIPP and TP/IX

• IPv4255 RFCs

  : IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) and its address lifecycle

• IPv6727 RFCs

  : IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6): specification, addressing, deployment

  • IPv6 transition127 RFCs

    : IPv6/IPv4 coexistence and transition mechanisms

    • 464XLAT7 RFCs

      : 464XLAT: combined stateful and stateless IPv4/IPv6 translation

    • 6rd6 RFCs

      : 6rd (IPv6 Rapid Deployment)

    • 6to48 RFCs

      : 6to4 automatic IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnelling

    • DS-Lite17 RFCs

      : DS-Lite (Dual-Stack Lite)

    • happy eyeballs4 RFCs

      : Happy Eyeballs connection racing

    • ISATAP7 RFCs

      : ISATAP (Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol), automatic host-to-router and host-to-host IPv6 tunnelling across an IPv4 intranet

    • MAP12 RFCs

      : MAP (Mapping of Address and Port): MAP-E and MAP-T

    • NAT6422 RFCs

      : NAT64 (Network Address Translation IPv6-to-IPv4): stateful translation

    • SIIT9 RFCs

      : SIIT (Stateless IP/ICMP Translation), the stateless algorithm for translating packet headers between IPv6 and IPv4

    • softwire38 RFCs

      : Softwires: IPv4/IPv6 tunnelling across a network of the other family (mesh and hub-and-spoke)

    • Teredo3 RFCs

      : Teredo: IPv6 through NATs via UDP

  • neighbor discovery43 RFCs

    : IPv6 neighbor discovery

    • SEND12 RFCs

      : SEND (SEcure Neighbor Discovery)

  • SLAAC17 RFCs

    : IPv6 SLAAC (Stateless Address Autoconfiguration)

• IPX12 RFCs

  : Novell IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange) interworking

• NAT98 RFCs

  : NAT (Network Address Translation): behaviour, requirements, deployment

  • CGN14 RFCs

    : Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN)

  • PCP14 RFCs

    : PCP (Port Control Protocol)

    • NAT-PMP1 RFC

      : NAT-PMP (NAT Port Mapping Protocol), the predecessor port mapping protocol that PCP succeeds and interworks with

• OSI56 RFCs

  : OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) network-layer protocols and coexistence with IP

  • CLNP11 RFCs

    : CLNP (Connectionless Network Protocol)

• PMTUD10 RFCs

  : Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD)

• router alert7 RFCs

  : The IP Router Alert option for IPv4 and IPv6: signalling that a router should examine a packet

• SAVI9 RFCs

  : SAVI (Source Address Validation Improvement)

• tunneling115 RFCs

  : Tunneling: IP-in-IP encapsulation and generic tunnelling

  • GRE15 RFCs

    : GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation)

  • IP-in-IP2 RFCs

    : IP-in-IP encapsulation

• vehicular networking2 RFCs

  : Vehicular Networking: IP in vehicular (V2X) environments

: IoT (Internet of Things): architectures, terminology, guidance for constrained devices

• 6LoWPAN40 RFCs

  : 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) and other constrained link layers

• 6TiSCH8 RFCs

  : 6TiSCH (IPv6 over the TSCH mode of IEEE 802.15.4e)

• ACE18 RFCs

  : ACE (Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments)

  • EDHOC3 RFCs

    : EDHOC (Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE) key exchange

• CoAP50 RFCs

  : CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol)

  • OSCORE8 RFCs

    : OSCORE (Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments)

• firmware update3 RFCs

  : Firmware update for IoT devices: architecture and manifests

• LPWAN8 RFCs

  : LPWAN (Low-Power Wide-Area Network) technologies over IP

  • LoRaWAN3 RFCs

    : LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) low-power radio networks and IP adaptation over them

  • SCHC7 RFCs

    : SCHC (Static Context Header Compression)

  • Sigfox3 RFCs

    : Sigfox ultra-narrowband LPWAN and IP adaptation over it

• MUD4 RFCs

  : MUD (Manufacturer Usage Description)

• RPL33 RFCs

  : RPL (IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks)

• SDF1 RFC

  : SDF (Semantic Definition Format) for IoT data models

• SenML5 RFCs

  : SenML (Sensor Measurement Lists) data format

: Link and data-link layers in general, not specific to one medium

• amateur radio1 RFC

  : Amateur packet radio (AX.25) and IP

• ARP40 RFCs

  : ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)

• ATM100 RFCs

  : Asynchronous Transfer Mode and IP over ATM

  • NHRP11 RFCs

    : NHRP (Next Hop Resolution Protocol) for NBMA networks

• CAPWAP15 RFCs

  : CAPWAP (Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points)

• cellular82 RFCs

  : Cellular networks: IP over 3GPP systems, GPRS/LTE/5G interworking

  • cdma20002 RFCs

    : cdma2000 (Code Division Multiple Access 2000): 3GPP2 packet-data networks, wireless IP, AAA and Mobile IP support

  • GSM6 RFCs

    : GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications): SIM-based authentication, SMS transport and second-generation interworking

• DOCSIS16 RFCs

  : DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification) cable access networks

• DSL23 RFCs

  : DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) access networks

  • ANCP5 RFCs

    : ANCP (Access Node Control Protocol)

• DVB12 RFCs

  : IP over MPEG-2/DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) broadcast links

• Ethernet149 RFCs

  : IP over Ethernet, Ethernet interworking and OAM

• FDDI10 RFCs

  : IP over FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface)

• FireWire3 RFCs

  : IP over IEEE 1394 (FireWire)

• frame relay25 RFCs

  : Frame relay and IP interworking

• InfiniBand6 RFCs

  : IP over InfiniBand

• ISDN14 RFCs

  : ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) access and IP

• L2TP28 RFCs

  : L2TP (Layer Two Tunneling Protocol)

• link aggregation8 RFCs

  : Link aggregation (LAG, IEEE 802.1AX): bundling parallel links, and protocol behaviour over the bundle

• PAWS2 RFCs

  : PAWS (Protocol to Access White-Space databases)

• PPP119 RFCs

  : PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) and its control protocols

  • PPPoE7 RFCs

    : PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet)

• satellite13 RFCs

  : Networking over satellite links

• SLIP5 RFCs

  : SLIP (Serial Line Internet Protocol)

• SMDS4 RFCs

  : SMDS (Switched Multimegabit Data Service)

• SNA31 RFCs

  : IBM SNA (Systems Network Architecture) interworking

  • APPN9 RFCs

    : APPN (Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking) peer-based SNA node networking, routing and its management objects

  • DLSw6 RFCs

    : DLSw (Data Link Switching) encapsulation of SNA and NetBIOS traffic over TCP/IP, and its switch-to-switch protocol

  • TN32709 RFCs

    : TN3270 (Telnet 3270) terminal emulation

• SONET33 RFCs

  : IP and multi-access protocols over SONET/SDH (Synchronous Optical Networking / Synchronous Digital Hierarchy)

  • MAPOS9 RFCs

    : MAPOS (Multiple Access Protocol over SONET/SDH), covering the protocol itself and its version, 16-bit address, multicast, node switching and address resolution extensions

• token ring7 RFCs

  : IP over token ring

• WiFi29 RFCs

  : Wi-Fi: IP over IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

• WiMAX9 RFCs

  : IP over IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) networks

• X.2519 RFCs

  : X.25 (ITU-T X.25 packet switching) and IP over public data networks

: Messaging in general: store-and-forward and interpersonal message systems

• EDI22 RFCs

  : EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) over Internet transports

• email472 RFCs

  : Electronic mail (email): architecture, transport, access and formats

  • EAI21 RFCs

    : Email address internationalization (EAI)

  • email authentication53 RFCs

    : Email domain authentication and anti-spoofing

    • ARC1 RFC

      : ARC (Authenticated Received Chain)

    • ARF9 RFCs

      : ARF (Abuse Reporting Format) for email feedback and authentication failure reports

    • DKIM30 RFCs

      : DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)

    • DMARC9 RFCs

      : DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance)

    • SPF21 RFCs

      : SPF (Sender Policy Framework)

  • IMAP114 RFCs

    : IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol)

  • JMAP13 RFCs

    : JMAP (JSON Meta Application Protocol) for mail and related data

  • mailing lists21 RFCs

    : Mailing list protocols, headers and management

  • message format42 RFCs

    : Internet message format: headers, addressing, disposition

  • POP327 RFCs

    : POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3)

  • Sieve61 RFCs

    : Sieve email filtering language

  • SMTP129 RFCs

    : SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and mail relaying/submission

  • spam29 RFCs

    : Spam: unsolicited bulk email: filtering, reporting, reputation

    • DNSBL3 RFCs

      : DNSBL (DNS-based blocklist): DNS query and response conventions for publishing and consulting lists of sending hosts and domains, including whitelists

  • VPIM14 RFCs

    : VPIM (Voice Profile for Internet Mail): voice messaging

• fax50 RFCs

  : Fax: facsimile over Internet mail and IP

• instant messaging96 RFCs

  : Instant messaging and presence

  • MSRP14 RFCs

    : MSRP (Message Session Relay Protocol)

  • PIDF18 RFCs

    : PIDF (Presence Information Data Format)

  • XMPP32 RFCs

    : XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol)

• MIME283 RFCs

  : MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): body structure and encodings

  • media types99 RFCs

    : Media (MIME) type registrations and registry rules

• Netnews21 RFCs

  : Netnews article format and distribution

  • NNTP10 RFCs

    : NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol)

• paging8 RFCs

  : Radio and network paging protocols

• SMS3 RFCs

  : SMS (Short Message Service): mobile short text messages, their URI schemes, and gateways to Internet mail

• UUCP2 RFCs

  : UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) mail interchange

• X.40042 RFCs

  : X.400 (ITU-T message handling systems) and interworking

: Naming and name resolution in general, not specific to one system

• DNS441 RFCs

  : DNS (Domain Name System): protocol, resource records, resolver and server behaviour, operations

  • DANE11 RFCs

    : DANE (DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities): TLSA and certificate association via DNSSEC

  • DNS privacy20 RFCs

    : Encrypted and privacy-preserving DNS transport

    • DoH7 RFCs

      : DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

    • DoQ7 RFCs

      : DoQ (DNS over QUIC), DNS resolution carried over dedicated QUIC connections

    • DoT2 RFCs

      : DNS over TLS (DoT)

    • oblivious DNS1 RFC

      : Oblivious DNS over HTTPS

  • DNS-SD9 RFCs

    : DNS-SD (DNS-Based Service Discovery)

  • DNS update3 RFCs

    : Dynamic DNS updates

  • DNS649 RFCs

    : DNS64 (DNS extensions for NAT64) address synthesis for IPv6/IPv4 translation

  • DNSSEC86 RFCs

    : DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions): signing, validation, trust anchors, NSEC/NSEC3

  • EDNS8 RFCs

    : Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS(0)) and EDNS options

  • mDNS11 RFCs

    : mDNS (Multicast DNS)

  • special-use domain names5 RFCs

    : Special-use and reserved domain names

    • .onion2 RFCs

      : .onion, the reserved top-level domain for Tor hidden services and the self-authenticating addresses beneath it

• domain registration116 RFCs

  : Domain Registration: domain registry and registrar operations and protocols

  • EPP56 RFCs

    : EPP (Extensible Provisioning Protocol) for registry objects

  • RDAP36 RFCs

    : RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol)

  • WHOIS53 RFCs

    : WHOIS and legacy registration data directory services

    • RWhois2 RFCs

      : RWhois (Referral Whois), the referral-following protocol for distributed, hierarchical registration data lookup

    • WHOIS++4 RFCs

      : WHOIS++, the distributed white pages directory architecture with its centroid-based index and mesh servers

• ENUM33 RFCs

  : ENUM (E.164 Number Mapping): telephone numbers in the DNS

• handle system3 RFCs

  : The Handle System persistent identifier infrastructure

• hostnames25 RFCs

  : Hostnames: host naming conventions and host tables

• IDN24 RFCs

  : IDN (Internationalized Domain Names): IDNA, punycode, label validity

• service discovery9 RFCs

  : Service Discovery: discovering services and resources on a network

• SLP17 RFCs

  : SLP (Service Location Protocol)

• tel URI13 RFCs

  : The tel URI scheme for telephone numbers and its parameters (number portability, trunk groups)

• UUID5 RFCs

  : UUID (Universally Unique Identifier)

: Network operations and management: manageability, operational considerations, Network management architectures and operational practice

• autonomic networking17 RFCs

  : Autonomic Networking: autonomic and self-managing network infrastructure

  • BRSKI5 RFCs

    : BRSKI (Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructure)

• benchmarking49 RFCs

  : Benchmarking methodology for network devices and functions

• CMIP2 RFCs

  : CMIP (Common Management Information Protocol): OSI-derived network management protocol and services, including its operation over TCP/IP

• energy management7 RFCs

  : Energy monitoring and management of networked devices

• HEMS5 RFCs

  : HEMS (High-Level Entity Management System): historic management protocol

• I2RS12 RFCs

  : I2RS (Interface to the Routing System)

• IPFIX57 RFCs

  : IPFIX (IP Flow Information Export) and packet sampling

  • PSAMP9 RFCs

    : PSAMP packet sampling and reporting

• NETCONF68 RFCs

  : The NETCONF (Network Configuration Protocol) configuration protocol

  • RESTCONF4 RFCs

    : RESTCONF (RESTful Network Configuration Protocol): NETCONF semantics over HTTP

• OAM68 RFCs

  : OAM (Operations, Administration, and Maintenance) mechanisms

• operational security23 RFCs

  : Operational security practices for network infrastructure

• OVSDB1 RFC

  : OVSDB (Open vSwitch Database) management protocol

• packet capture3 RFCs

  : Packet capture and trace file formats

• performance measurement127 RFCs

  : Performance Measurement: active and passive network performance metrics and methods

  • LMAP4 RFCs

    : LMAP (Large-Scale Measurement of Broadband Performance) platforms

  • OWAMP7 RFCs

    : OWAMP (One-Way Active Measurement Protocol)

  • STAMP5 RFCs

    : STAMP (Simple Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol)

  • TWAMP17 RFCs

    : TWAMP (Two-Way Active Measurement Protocol)

• policy management9 RFCs

  : Policy-based network management information models

• SDN6 RFCs

  : SDN (Software-Defined Networking): separated, programmable control planes

• SNMP527 RFCs

  : SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) framework and security

  • AgentX3 RFCs

    : AgentX (SNMP Agent Extensibility Protocol) subagent protocol

  • MIB453 RFCs

    : MIB (Management Information Base) modules and SMI

  • RMON25 RFCs

    : RMON (Remote Network Monitoring)

• sustainability2 RFCs

  : Sustainability: energy efficiency and environmental impact of Internet infrastructure

• syslog14 RFCs

  : The syslog logging protocol

• telemetry16 RFCs

  : Network telemetry: streaming operational data from network elements

• time synchronization56 RFCs

  : Time Synchronization: clock synchronization over networks

  • NTP40 RFCs

    : NTP (Network Time Protocol)

  • PTP8 RFCs

    : PTP (Precision Time Protocol) over IP networks

• traceroute19 RFCs

  : Traceroute and path discovery tools

• Y2K1 RFC

  : Y2K (Year 2000) readiness

• YANG153 RFCs

  : YANG (Yet Another Next Generation data modeling language) data modelling language and models

: Real-time voice, video and media communication in general

• codecs64 RFCs

  : Audio and video codec definitions and containers

  • AMR4 RFCs

    : AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) and AMR-WB speech codecs

  • FFV11 RFC

    : FFV1 (FF Video codec 1) lossless video coding

  • G.7112 RFCs

    : G.711 ITU-T narrowband PCM speech coding, its lossless and wideband extensions, and their payload formats

  • G.7223 RFCs

    : G.722 ITU-T wideband speech coding, its G.722.1 and G.722.2 variants, and their payload formats

  • G.7292 RFCs

    : G.729 ITU-T low-rate speech coding, its wideband extensions, and their payload formats

  • H.2645 RFCs

    : H.264 (ITU-T H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC)/AVC video codec

  • HEVC2 RFCs

    : HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), also published as ITU-T H.265, and its RTP payload format

  • iLBC2 RFCs

    : iLBC (internet Low Bit Rate Codec) narrowband speech coding for lossy links and its payload format

  • Matroska2 RFCs

    : Matroska media container

  • MP32 RFCs

    : MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer III) audio coding and its loss-tolerant RTP payload formats

  • Ogg5 RFCs

    : Ogg encapsulation format, its media types, and its mappings for carrying coded audio

  • Opus7 RFCs

    : The Opus audio codec

  • Speex1 RFC

    : Speex open speech coding for voice over IP and its RTP payload format

  • Vorbis1 RFC

    : Vorbis open audio coding and its RTP payload format

  • VP83 RFCs

    : The VP8 video codec

  • VP92 RFCs

    : VP9 video codec

• conferencing53 RFCs

  : Multiparty conferencing frameworks and control

  • BFCP8 RFCs

    : BFCP (Binary Floor Control Protocol)

  • telepresence9 RFCs

    : Telepresence (CLUE) multi-stream conferencing

  • XCON12 RFCs

    : XCON centralized conferencing framework and data model

• emergency services35 RFCs

  : Emergency Services: emergency calling and preparedness communications

  • eCall2 RFCs

    : eCall: pan-European in-vehicle emergency calling, including automatic crash notification and its IP-based next generation

  • LoST8 RFCs

    : LoST, the Location-to-Service Translation protocol

• H.3234 RFCs

  : ITU-T H.323 multimedia conferencing and its interworking with IP

• MRCP3 RFCs

  : MRCP (Media Resource Control Protocol): speech services

• NAT traversal47 RFCs

  : Interactive traversal of NATs for real-time media

  • ICE10 RFCs

    : ICE (Interactive Connectivity Establishment)

  • STUN22 RFCs

    : STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT)

  • TURN14 RFCs

    : TURN (Traversal Using Relays around NAT)

• PSTN interop65 RFCs

  : Interworking between the Internet and the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network): signalling transport, gateway control, ISUP interworking, IP access to telephone services

  • Megaco8 RFCs

    : Megaco (Media Gateway Control), the IETF/ITU-T H.248 gateway control protocol

  • MGCP13 RFCs

    : MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol)

  • PINT3 RFCs

    : PINT (PSTN/Internet Interworking): SIP and SDP extensions by which Internet applications request telephone call services such as click-to-dial, fax delivery and voice access, with the service protocol and its MIB

  • SIGTRAN21 RFCs

    : SIGTRAN (Signaling Transport): SS7 and ISDN signalling transport over IP (M2PA, M2UA, M3UA, SUA, IUA, V5UA)

  • SIP-T4 RFCs

    : SIP-T (SIP for Telephones) and SIP-I: ISUP encapsulation and interworking with SIP

  • SPIRITS4 RFCs

    : SPIRITS (Services in the PSTN/IN Requesting Internet Services): architecture, requirements and protocol by which intelligent network service nodes invoke services hosted on the Internet, the direction opposite to PINT

• RTP283 RFCs

  : RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol)

  • RTCP59 RFCs

    : RTCP (RTP Control Protocol): feedback, reports, extended reports

  • RTP payload format96 RFCs

    : RTP Payload Formats for specific codecs and media

  • SRTP42 RFCs

    : SRTP (Secure Real-time Transport Protocol): secure RTP

• SDP99 RFCs

  : SDP (Session Description Protocol) and offer/answer

• SIP389 RFCs

  : SIP (Session Initiation Protocol): call signalling, extensions, deployment

  • CPL2 RFCs

    : CPL (Call Processing Language) for user control of call handling

  • P2PSIP9 RFCs

    : P2PSIP (Peer-to-Peer SIP) and RELOAD

  • SigComp10 RFCs

    : SigComp (Signaling Compression) for SIP and other text-based signaling

  • SIMPLE28 RFCs

    : SIMPLE (SIP for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions): event packages, PIDF extensions, XCAP

  • SIPREC5 RFCs

    : SIPREC (SIP Recording): SIP-based session recording

  • SPEERMINT9 RFCs

    : SPEERMINT (Session PEERing for Multimedia INTerconnect) between SIP service providers, and peering provisioning

  • STIR20 RFCs

    : STIR (Secure Telephone Identity Revisited): caller-ID authentication

  • TRIP6 RFCs

    : TRIP (Telephony Routing over IP) and the TGREP gateway registration protocol

• streaming22 RFCs

  : Media streaming delivery and operations

  • IPTV8 RFCs

    : IPTV (Internet Protocol television) service delivery, channel distribution and operational requirements

  • PPSP3 RFCs

    : PPSP (Peer-to-Peer Streaming Protocol)

  • RTSP7 RFCs

    : RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol)

• WebRTC35 RFCs

  : WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication): browser real-time media architecture and transports

  • SFrame1 RFC

    : SFrame (Secure Frame) end-to-end media encryption

  • WHIP1 RFC

    : WebRTC-HTTP ingestion (WHIP (WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol))

: Routing in general: routers, routing systems and cross-protocol routing matters

• Babel14 RFCs

  : The Babel routing protocol

• BFD44 RFCs

  : BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection)

• BGP271 RFCs

  : BGP (Border Gateway Protocol): protocol, policy, operations

  • BGP communities12 RFCs

    : BGP Communities: standard, extended and large

  • BGP flowspec7 RFCs

    : BGP Flow Specification for traffic filtering

  • BMP6 RFCs

    : BMP (BGP Monitoring Protocol)

  • route reflection4 RFCs

    : BGP route reflection and confederations

  • route server3 RFCs

    : Internet exchange route servers

• BGP-SPF2 RFCs

  : BGP-SPF (BGP Shortest Path First): link-state routing using BGP-LS

• data center networking1 RFC

  : Data Center Networking: routing and address resolution at data-centre scale

• DetNet26 RFCs

  : DetNet (Deterministic Networking): bounded latency and loss

• EGP9 RFCs

  : EGP (Exterior Gateway Protocol): historic inter-domain routing

• EIGRP1 RFC

  : EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol)

• ForCES18 RFCs

  : ForCES (Forwarding and Control Element Separation)

• GSMP8 RFCs

  : GSMP (General Switch Management Protocol)

• HSRP2 RFCs

  : HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol)

• IDPR3 RFCs

  : IDPR (Inter-Domain Policy Routing)

• IP fast reroute27 RFCs

  : IP and LDP fast reroute, loop-free alternates

• IS-IS103 RFCs

  : The IS-IS (Intermediate System to Intermediate System) link-state routing protocol

• LISP34 RFCs

  : LISP (Locator/ID Separation Protocol)

• MANET55 RFCs

  : MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network) routing

  • AODV2 RFCs

    : AODV (Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector routing)

  • DLEP9 RFCs

    : DLEP (Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol) for exchanging link quality and status between a radio modem and its attached router

  • DSR3 RFCs

    : DSR (Dynamic Source Routing)

  • NHDP11 RFCs

    : NHDP (Neighborhood Discovery Protocol) for one-hop and symmetric two-hop neighbour discovery in mobile ad hoc networks

  • OLSR3 RFCs

    : OLSR (Optimized Link State Routing)

  • TBRPF1 RFC

    : TBRPF (Topology Dissemination Based on Reverse-Path Forwarding) proactive link-state routing for mobile ad hoc networks

• MPLS569 RFCs

  : MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching): architecture, encapsulation, operations

  • GMPLS172 RFCs

    : GMPLS (Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching): generalized MPLS and optical/transport network control

  • LDP64 RFCs

    : LDP (Label Distribution Protocol)

    • CR-LDP7 RFCs

      : CR-LDP (Constraint-Based Routing Label Distribution Protocol), signalling of explicitly routed and traffic-engineered LSPs, including LSP modification and its managed objects

  • MPLS-TP50 RFCs

    : MPLS-TP (MPLS Transport Profile)

  • pseudowire83 RFCs

    : Pseudowire emulation edge-to-edge

• multicast305 RFCs

  : IP multicast routing, group membership and deployment

  • AMT4 RFCs

    : AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling)

  • BIER11 RFCs

    : BIER (Bit Index Explicit Replication)

  • IGMP24 RFCs

    : IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol)

  • MADCAP9 RFCs

    : MADCAP (Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol) and the MALLOC address-allocation architecture

  • MLD26 RFCs

    : MLD (Multicast Listener Discovery)

  • MOSPF1 RFC

    : MOSPF (Multicast Extensions to OSPF)

  • MSDP9 RFCs

    : MSDP (Multicast Source Discovery Protocol)

  • multicast security22 RFCs

    : Group key management and multicast security

    • GDOI5 RFCs

      : GDOI (Group Domain of Interpretation), the ISAKMP group key management protocol distributing keys and policy to IPsec group members

    • GSAKMP1 RFC

      : GSAKMP (Group Secure Association Key Management Protocol), group key creation and distribution with delegated group-owner policy

    • TESLA5 RFCs

      : TESLA (Timed Efficient Stream Loss-tolerant Authentication), delayed-key-disclosure source authentication for multicast and broadcast streams

  • PIM71 RFCs

    : PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast)

    • PIM-SM15 RFCs

      : PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode), the shared-tree and source-tree sparse mode specification and its extensions

  • reliable multicast33 RFCs

    : Reliable multicast transport

    • ALC6 RFCs

      : ALC (Asynchronous Layered Coding) protocol instantiation for massively scalable one-to-many reliable content delivery

    • FLUTE6 RFCs

      : FLUTE file delivery over unidirectional transport

    • LCT3 RFCs

      : LCT (Layered Coding Transport) building block for congestion-controlled layered multicast content delivery

    • NORM7 RFCs

      : NORM (NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast)

    • PGM1 RFC

      : PGM (Pragmatic General Multicast) reliable multicast transport with NAK-based loss recovery and router assistance

  • SSM25 RFCs

    : Source-Specific Multicast (SSM)

• Nimrod4 RFCs

  : The Nimrod routing architecture

• OSPF145 RFCs

  : OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)

  • OSPFv327 RFCs

    : OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3 (Open Shortest Path First version 3))

• overlay networks15 RFCs

  : Data-plane network virtualization overlays

  • Geneve5 RFCs

    : Geneve (Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation)

  • NVGRE3 RFCs

    : NVGRE (Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation)

  • VXLAN5 RFCs

    : VXLAN (Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network) encapsulation

• RIFT4 RFCs

  : RIFT (Routing in Fat Trees)

• RIP19 RFCs

  : Routing Information Protocol (RIP, RIPv2, RIPng)

• routing architecture42 RFCs

  : Routing architecture, scalability and design principles

  • ECMP18 RFCs

    : ECMP (Equal-Cost Multipath) and load-balanced forwarding

• routing security74 RFCs

  : Routing Security: securing routing protocols and infrastructure

  • BGPsec12 RFCs

    : BGPsec (BGP Security extension) path validation

  • RPKI65 RFCs

    : RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) and route origin validation

• RPSL12 RFCs

  : RPSL (Routing Policy Specification Language) and Internet routing registries

• segment routing68 RFCs

  : Segment routing architecture

  • SR-MPLS8 RFCs

    : SR-MPLS (Segment Routing over MPLS)

  • SRv621 RFCs

    : SRv6 (Segment Routing over IPv6)

• SFC19 RFCs

  : Service function chaining (SFC) and the network service header

• traffic engineering233 RFCs

  : Traffic engineering of packet and transport networks

  • PCE90 RFCs

    : PCE (Path Computation Element) architecture and PCEP

  • RSVP-TE55 RFCs

    : RSVP-TE (RSVP Traffic Engineering) signalling for traffic-engineered LSPs

• TRILL49 RFCs

  : TRILL: transparent interconnection of lots of links

• TVR1 RFC

  : Time-Variant Routing over scheduled connectivity

• VPN150 RFCs

  : Provider-provisioned VPNs (Virtual Private Networks)

  • EVPN33 RFCs

    : EVPN (Ethernet VPN)

  • L1VPN6 RFCs

    : L1VPN (Layer 1 Virtual Private Network)

  • L2VPN32 RFCs

    : L2VPN (Layer 2 VPN) services

  • L3VPN51 RFCs

    : L3VPN (Layer 3 Virtual Private Network) over BGP/MPLS

  • MVPN26 RFCs

    : Multicast VPN: multicast in BGP/MPLS VPNs

  • VPLS18 RFCs

    : VPLS (Virtual Private LAN Service)

• VRRP8 RFCs

  : VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol)

: Security in general: threat models, guidance and handbooks not specific to one mechanism

• AAA159 RFCs

  : AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) frameworks

  • Diameter47 RFCs

    : The Diameter protocol

  • RADIUS83 RFCs

    : The RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) protocol

  • TACACS+6 RFCs

    : TACACS and TACACS+ (Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System Plus)

• authentication149 RFCs

  : Authentication of users, hosts and messages across protocols

  • WebAuthn2 RFCs

    : Web Authentication (WebAuthn)

• authorization50 RFCs

  : Authorization and access control: who may do what

  • XACML1 RFC

    : XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language)

• CMS174 RFCs

  : CMS (Cryptographic Message Syntax)

  • S/MIME76 RFCs

    : S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) secure email

• COSE24 RFCs

  : COSE (CBOR Object Signing and Encryption)

• DDoS40 RFCs

  : DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack mitigation and signalling

  • DOTS14 RFCs

    : DOTS (DDoS Open Threat Signaling)

• EAP72 RFCs

  : EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) and methods

  • HOKEY13 RFCs

    : HOKEY (Handover Keying) and the EAP Re-authentication Protocol (ERP)

• federated authentication11 RFCs

  : Cross-domain federated authentication frameworks

• firewall59 RFCs

  : Firewalls and middlebox security traversal

  • I2NSF3 RFCs

    : I2NSF (Interface to Network Security Functions)

  • SOCKS4 RFCs

    : The SOCKS proxy protocol

• GSS-API67 RFCs

  : GSS-API (Generic Security Service Application Program Interface) and its mechanisms

  • SPNEGO2 RFCs

    : SPNEGO (Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation Mechanism), negotiation of a common security mechanism between peers and its use in HTTP authentication

• Ident8 RFCs

  : Ident (Identification Protocol)

• incident response24 RFCs

  : Security incident response: exchange and coordination

  • IODEF18 RFCs

    : IODEF (Incident Object Description Exchange Format)

  • RID5 RFCs

    : RID (Real-time Inter-network Defense): policy-governed exchange of IODEF incident reports and trace requests between network operators, and its transport bindings

• intrusion detection6 RFCs

  : Intrusion detection message exchange

  • IDMEF3 RFCs

    : IDMEF (Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format)

  • IDXP1 RFC

    : IDXP (Intrusion Detection Exchange Protocol) over BEEP

• IPsec187 RFCs

  : IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) architecture: ESP, AH, policy

  • ESP43 RFCs

    : ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload)

  • IKE104 RFCs

    : IKE (Internet Key Exchange)

    • KINK2 RFCs

      : KINK (Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys): IPsec key management using Kerberos

    • MOBIKE4 RFCs

      : MOBIKE: IKEv2 mobility and multihoming

    • Photuris3 RFCs

      : Photuris, session-key management protocol for IPsec, with its extended schemes and attributes

• JOSE17 RFCs

  : JOSE (JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption): JWS, JWE, JWK

• Kerberos60 RFCs

  : The Kerberos authentication system

• LTANS5 RFCs

  : LTANS (Long-Term Archive and Notary Services) for signed data

• MLS3 RFCs

  : MLS (Messaging Layer Security) for end-to-end group messaging

• NEA6 RFCs

  : NEA (Network Endpoint Assessment) and posture

• OAuth57 RFCs

  : OAuth (Open Authorization) authorization framework

  • GNAP2 RFCs

    : GNAP (Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol)

  • JWT21 RFCs

    : JWT (JSON Web Token)

• OpenPGP15 RFCs

  : OpenPGP (Open Pretty Good Privacy) message format and usage

• PANA11 RFCs

  : PANA (Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access)

• PEM12 RFCs

  : PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail): historic secure email

• PKI254 RFCs

  : PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) for the Internet

  • ACME14 RFCs

    : ACME (Automatic Certificate Management Environment)

  • certificate transparency3 RFCs

    : Certificate transparency logs

  • CMP13 RFCs

    : CMP (Certificate Management Protocol)

  • EST6 RFCs

    : EST (Enrollment over Secure Transport)

  • OCSP13 RFCs

    : OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol)

  • SPKI2 RFCs

    : SPKI (Simple Public Key Infrastructure), historic

  • X.509144 RFCs

    : X.509 (ITU-T X.509 public key certificates) certificates and profiles

• privacy108 RFCs

  : Privacy threat models and protocol privacy considerations

• privacy pass3 RFCs

  : Privacy Pass anonymous tokens

• remote attestation9 RFCs

  : Remote attestation of device state

• SACM5 RFCs

  : SACM: security automation and continuous monitoring

• SASL26 RFCs

  : SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer)

• SCIM6 RFCs

  : SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management)

• secevent7 RFCs

  : Security event tokens and event delivery

• security labels5 RFCs

  : Security labels for networked data (CIPSO, CALIPSO and frameworks)

• SSH43 RFCs

  : SSH (Secure Shell) protocol

• supply chain integrity2 RFCs

  : Supply chain integrity and transparency for digital artefacts

• TEEP1 RFC

  : TEEP (Trusted Execution Environment Provisioning)

• TLS228 RFCs

  : TLS (Transport Layer Security): protocol, extensions, deployment guidance

  • DTLS57 RFCs

    : DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security): datagram TLS

• trust management4 RFCs

  : Trust management systems (KeyNote and successors)

• XML signatures10 RFCs

  : XML digital signatures and encryption

: Transport protocols and transport-layer services in general

• checksum19 RFCs

  : The Internet checksum and packet integrity checks

  • CRC1 RFC

    : CRC (cyclic redundancy check) polynomial error detection over frames and payloads, and the choice of generator polynomials

• congestion control136 RFCs

  : Congestion control and avoidance across transports

  • AQM14 RFCs

    : Active queue management (AQM)

    • CoDel2 RFCs

      : The CoDel (Controlled Delay) queue management algorithm

    • PIE2 RFCs

      : The PIE (Proportional Integral controller Enhanced) queue management algorithm

  • ConEx5 RFCs

    : ConEx (Congestion Exposure)

  • CUBIC2 RFCs

    : CUBIC congestion control

  • DCTCP1 RFC

    : DCTCP (Data Center TCP), the ECN-based congestion control for data center networks

  • ECN23 RFCs

    : ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification)

  • LEDBAT2 RFCs

    : LEDBAT (Low Extra Delay Background Transport)

  • NewReno3 RFCs

    : NewReno, the fast recovery and fast retransmit modification to TCP congestion control

  • PCN9 RFCs

    : PCN (Pre-Congestion Notification)

  • RTP congestion control4 RFCs

    : Congestion control for interactive real-time media over RTP (NADA, SCReAM, GCC)

  • TFRC6 RFCs

    : TFRC (TCP-Friendly Rate Control), equation-based rate control for streaming and DCCP, including its small-packet variant

• DCCP19 RFCs

  : DCCP (Datagram Congestion Control Protocol)

• DTN21 RFCs

  : Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN): Delay/disruption-tolerant networking and the Bundle Protocol

• FEC44 RFCs

  : Forward error correction (FEC), ARQ and network coding for loss recovery schemes for packet transport

  • BATS1 RFC

    : BATS (batched sparse) coding scheme for multi-hop transport with recoding at intermediate nodes

  • FECFRAME12 RFCs

    : FECFRAME (FEC Framework) for real-time and streaming media

  • LDPC2 RFCs

    : LDPC (low-density parity-check) staircase and triangle codes for packet erasure correction

  • Raptor5 RFCs

    : Raptor fountain codes, including RaptorQ, for object delivery and FEC framework schemes

  • Tetrys1 RFC

    : Tetrys on-the-fly network coding with feedback for elastic in-order loss recovery

• header compression50 RFCs

  : Header Compression: compressing protocol headers on constrained links

  • CRTP2 RFCs

    : CRTP (Compressed RTP): compressing IP/UDP/RTP headers over low-speed serial links, including the enhanced variant for lossy, high-delay links

  • IPHC3 RFCs

    : IPHC (IP Header Compression, RFC 2507) and its use over PPP

  • ROHC26 RFCs

    : ROHC (RObust Header Compression)

• IRTP1 RFC

  : IRTP (Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol)

• NETBLT4 RFCs

  : NETBLT (NETwork BLock Transfer) bulk data transfer protocol

• QoS262 RFCs

  : QoS (Quality of Service) architectures and signalling

  • COPS20 RFCs

    : COPS (Common Open Policy Service) and policy provisioning

  • Diffserv60 RFCs

    : Diffserv (Differentiated Services)

  • Intserv27 RFCs

    : Intserv (Integrated Services)

  • NSIS18 RFCs

    : NSIS (Next Steps in Signaling)

  • RSVP114 RFCs

    : RSVP (Resource Reservation Protocol)

• QUIC22 RFCs

  : QUIC: general-purpose encrypted transport over UDP

• RATP1 RFC

  : RATP (Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol)

• RDP2 RFCs

  : RDP (Reliable Data Protocol): historic transport

• RSerPool8 RFCs

  : RSerPool (Reliable Server Pooling)

• SCTP53 RFCs

  : SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)

• ST-II2 RFCs

  : The ST-II (Internet Stream Protocol version 2) internet stream protocol

• TAPS8 RFCs

  : TAPS (Transport Services) architecture and APIs

• TCP241 RFCs

  : TCP (Transmission Control Protocol): protocol, extensions, implementation

  • MPTCP11 RFCs

    : Multipath TCP (MPTCP)

  • tcpcrypt2 RFCs

    : Opportunistic TCP-level encryption (tcpcrypt)

• TMux1 RFC

  : TMux (Transport Multiplexing Protocol)

• transport mapping52 RFCs

  : Transport Mappings: carrying one protocol over another transport: X-over-TLS/TCP/UDP/QUIC bindings and transport models

• UDP76 RFCs

  : UDP (User Datagram Protocol) and its usage guidelines

  • UDP-Lite6 RFCs

    : UDP-Lite (Lightweight User Datagram Protocol)

: The web in general: architecture and cross-protocol web matters

• Atom7 RFCs

  : Atom syndication format and publishing protocol

• CDN19 RFCs

  : Content delivery networks and CDN interconnection

• HTML16 RFCs

  : HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and hypertext document formats

  • MHTML2 RFCs

    : MHTML (MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML) for bundling a hypertext document and its inline resources into one MIME message

• HTTP230 RFCs

  : HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol): semantics, syntax, extensions

  • cookies13 RFCs

    : HTTP state management: cookies

  • HTTP APIs6 RFCs

    : Conventions for building APIs on HTTP (problem details, rate limits, etc.)

  • HTTP authentication7 RFCs

    : HTTP Authentication schemes (Basic, Digest, and others)

    • HOBA1 RFC

      : HOBA (HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication), the digital-signature scheme binding a client key pair to an origin in place of a password

  • HTTP caching1 RFC

    : HTTP and web caching

  • HTTP/27 RFCs

    : HTTP/2 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2)

  • HTTP/35 RFCs

    : HTTP/3 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 3)

  • MASQUE5 RFCs

    : MASQUE (Multiplexed Application Substrate over QUIC Encryption): proxying IP/UDP over HTTP

  • oblivious HTTP3 RFCs

    : Oblivious HTTP relay-based request privacy

  • web linking19 RFCs

    : Web Linking: typed web links and link relations

  • WebDAV22 RFCs

    : WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)

• OPES12 RFCs

  : OPES (Open Pluggable Edge Services): intermediary content adaptation

• robots.txt2 RFCs

  : The Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt)

• URI242 RFCs

  : URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers): syntax, schemes, resolution, templates

  • IRI9 RFCs

    : IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifiers)

  • URN95 RFCs

    : Uniform Resource Names and URN namespaces

• web push3 RFCs

  : Web push notification delivery

• web security12 RFCs

  : Web platform security mechanisms

  • HSTS3 RFCs

    : HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)

  • S-HTTP3 RFCs

    : Secure HTTP (S-HTTP, historic)

  • token binding3 RFCs

    : TLS token binding

• WebFinger3 RFCs

  : WebFinger resource discovery

• WebSocket12 RFCs

  : The WebSocket protocol