RFC 5218: What Makes for a Successful Protocol?

The Internet community has specified a large number of protocols to date, and these protocols have achieved varying degrees of success. Based on case studies,…

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Outgoing relationships (27 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1035: Domain names - implementation and specification
Informative reference — RFC 2460: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
Informative reference — RFC 791: Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Informative reference — RFC 768: User Datagram Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2131: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2865: Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)
Informative reference — RFC 2328: OSPF Version 2
Informative reference — RFC 1661: The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Informative reference — RFC 826: An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware
Informative reference — RFC 959: File Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 3022: Traditional IP Network Address Translator (Traditional NAT)
Informative reference — RFC 2821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4120: The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
Informative reference — RFC 3552: Guidelines for Writing RFC Text on Security Considerations
Informative reference — RFC 4251: The Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Architecture
Informative reference — RFC 1958: Architectural Principles of the Internet
Informative reference — RFC 3954: Cisco Systems NetFlow Services Export Version 9
Informative reference — RFC 1866: Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0
Informative reference — RFC 1058: Routing Information Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4864: Local Network Protection for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 1436: The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)
Informative reference — RFC 4436: Detecting Network Attachment in IPv4 (DNAv4)

Incoming relationships (9 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 6709: Design Considerations for Protocol Extensions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6180: Guidelines for Using IPv6 Transition Mechanisms during IPv6 Deployment
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7305: Report from the IAB Workshop on Internet Technology Adoption and Transition (ITAT)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8170: Planning for Protocol Adoption and Subsequent Transitions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7663: Report from the IAB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet (SEMI)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8752: Report from the IAB Workshop on Exploring Synergy between Content Aggregation and the Publisher Ecosystem (ESCAPE)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9170: Long-Term Viability of Protocol Extension Mechanisms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7452: Architectural Considerations in Smart Object Networking
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards