RFC 4540: NEC's Simple Middlebox Configuration (SIMCO) Protocol Version 3.0

This document describes a protocol for controlling middleboxes such as firewalls and network address translators. It is a fully compliant implementation of…

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Outgoing relationships (13 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Normative reference — RFC 4346: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1
Normative reference — RFC 3989: Middlebox Communications (MIDCOM) Protocol Semantics
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4306: Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2663: IP Network Address Translator (NAT) Terminology and Considerations
Informative reference — RFC 1519: Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR): an Address Assignment and Aggregation Strategy
Informative reference — RFC 3234: Middleboxes: Taxonomy and Issues
Informative reference — RFC 3424: IAB Considerations for UNilateral Self-Address Fixing (UNSAF) Across Network Address Translation
Informative reference — RFC 3489: STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) Through Network Address Translators (NATs)
Informative reference — RFC 3303: Middlebox communication architecture and framework
Informative reference — RFC 3932: The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: Procedures

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 8996: Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6544: TCP Candidates with Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE)