RFC 7605: Recommendations on Using Assigned Transport Port Numbers

This document provides recommendations to designers of application and service protocols on how to use the transport protocol port number space and when to…

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Outgoing relationships (45 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 5246: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2
Normative reference — RFC 6347: Datagram Transport Layer Security Version 1.2
Normative reference — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Normative reference — RFC 6335: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry
Normative reference — RFC 3692: Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered Useful
Normative reference — RFC 4727: Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP, and TCP Headers
Normative reference — RFC 5405: Unicast UDP Usage Guidelines for Application Designers
Normative reference — RFC 2780: IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the Internet Protocol and Related Headers
Informative reference — RFC 5226: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1122: Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers
Informative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
Informative reference — RFC 5389: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Informative reference — RFC 6066: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions: Extension Definitions
Informative reference — RFC 1700: Assigned Numbers
Informative reference — RFC 1812: Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
Informative reference — RFC 4340: Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP)
Informative reference — RFC 959: File Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 5245: Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE): A Protocol for Network Address Translator (NAT) Traversal for Offer/Answer Protocols
Informative reference — RFC 5766: Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)
Informative reference — RFC 6763: DNS-Based Service Discovery
Informative reference — RFC 6762: Multicast DNS
Informative reference — RFC 2595: Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP
Informative reference — RFC 3232: Assigned Numbers: RFC 1700 is Replaced by an On-line Database
Informative reference — RFC 2817: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 7120: Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code Points
Informative reference — RFC 1340: Assigned Numbers
Informative reference — RFC 1833: Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2
Informative reference — RFC 333: Proposed experiment with a Message Switching Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2644: Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts in Routers
Informative reference — RFC 820: Assigned numbers
Informative reference — RFC 900: Assigned Numbers
Informative reference — RFC 33: New Host-Host Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 739: Assigned numbers
Informative reference — RFC 758: Assigned numbers
Informative reference — RFC 37: Network Meeting Epilogue, etc
Informative reference — RFC 38: Comments on Network Protocol from NWG/RFC #36
Informative reference — RFC 48: Possible protocol plateau
Informative reference — RFC 61: Note on Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network
Informative reference — RFC 76: Connection by name: User oriented protocol

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9313: Pros and Cons of IPv6 Transition Technologies for IPv4-as-a-Service (IPv4aaS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9205: Building Protocols with HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9312: Manageability of the QUIC Transport Protocol