Subject: n-1-4-900.10

Internet Standards
by Jon Postel <postel@isi.edu>

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Where and how to get STDs
=========================

The IAB Internet Standards are documented in a small subset of the
RFCs.  Once you know the RFC number of the document describing an
STD you may obtain that document by getting the RFC (see
ways_to_get_rfcs).

For convenience these documents are also grouped and listed by their
STD numbers.

The STDs may be obtained via EMAIL or FTP from STD Repositories.

1.  VENERA.ISI.EDU

STDs are available via anonymous FTP from VENERA.ISI.EDU, with the
pathname: in-notes/std/stdNN.txt (where "NN" is the number of the STD.
For example STD2.TXT is the current Assigned Numbers document.  Login
with FTP username "anonymous" and password "ftp".

STDs can also be obtained via electronic mail from VENERA.ISI.EDU by
using the RFC-INFO service.  Address the request to "rfc-info@isi.edu"
with a message body of:

         Retrieve: STD
           Doc-ID: STDnnnn

(Where "nnnn" refers to the number of the STD (always use 4 digits).
The RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU server provides other ways of selecting STDs
based on date ranges and such; for more information send a message to
"rfc-info@isi.edu" with the message body "help: help".

Note that STDs may be very large (greater than 100,000 charactes), the
RFC-INFO service will return the report in sections of less than
50,000 characters each.

contact: RFC-Manager@ISI.EDU


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IAB Standards Index
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STD Protocol   Name                                      Status    RFC
=== ========   =====================================     ======   ====
  1 --------   IAB Official Protocol Standards           Req      1360
  2 --------   Assigned Numbers                          Req      1340
  3 --------   Host Requirements - Communications        Req      1122
  3 --------   Host Requirements - Applications          Req      1123
  4 --------   Gateway Requirements                      Req      1009
  5 IP         Internet Protocol                         Req       791
                as amended by:
  5 --------     IP Subnet Extension                     Req       950
  5 --------     IP Broadcast Datagrams                  Req       919
  5 --------     IP Broadcast Datagrams with Subnets     Req       922
  5 ICMP       Internet Control Message Protocol         Req       792
  5 IGMP       Internet Group Multicast Protocol         Rec      1112
  6 UDP        User Datagram Protocol                    Rec       768
  7 TCP        Transmission Control Protocol             Rec       793
  8 TELNET     Telnet Protocol                           Rec   854,855
  9 FTP        File Transfer Protocol                    Rec       959
 10 SMTP       Simple Mail Transfer Protocol             Rec       821
 11 MAIL       Format of Electronic Mail Messages        Rec       822
 11 CONTENT    Content Type Header Field                 Rec      1049
 12 NTP        Network Time Protocol                     Rec      1119
 13 DOMAIN     Domain Name System                        Rec 1034,1035
 14 DNS-MX     Mail Routing and the Domain System        Rec       974
 15 SNMP       Simple Network Management Protocol        Rec      1157
 16 SMI        Structure of Management Information       Rec      1155
 17 MIB-II     Management Information Base-II            Rec      1213
 18 EGP        Exterior Gateway Protocol                 Rec       904
 19 NETBIOS    NetBIOS Service Protocols                 Ele 1001,1002
 20 ECHO       Echo Protocol                             Rec       862
 21 DISCARD    Discard Protocol                          Ele       863
 22 CHARGEN    Character Generator Protocol              Ele       864
 23 QUOTE      Quote of the Day Protocol                 Ele       865
 24 USERS      Active Users Protocol                     Ele       866
 25 DAYTIME    Daytime Protocol                          Ele       867
 26 TIME       Time Server Protocol                      Ele       868
 27 TOPT-BIN   Binary Transmission (0)                   Rec       856
 28 TOPT-ECHO  Echo (1)                                  Rec       857
 29 TOPT-SUPP  Suppress Go Ahead (3)                     Rec       858
 30 TOPT-STAT  Status (5)                                Rec       859
 31 TOPT-TIM   Timing Mark (6)                           Rec       860
 32 TOPT-EXTOP Extended-Options-List (255)               Rec       861
 33 TFTP       Trivial File Transfer Protocol            Ele      1350
 34 RIP        Routing Information Protocol              Ele      1058

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