RFC 5237: IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field

This document revises the IANA guidelines for allocating new Protocol field values in IPv4 header. It modifies the rules specified in RFC 2780 by removing the…

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Outgoing relationships (5 related RFCs)

Updates — RFC 2780: IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers
Normative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Normative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 2434: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 4727: Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9498: The GNU Name System
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6335: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry