RFC6814
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) C. Pignataro Request for Comments: 6814 Cisco Systems Obsoletes: 1385, 1393, 1475, 1770 F. Gont Category: Standards Track UTN-FRH / SI6 Networks ISSN: 2070-1721 November 2012
Formally Deprecating Some IPv4 Options
Abstract
A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4 options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry. Additionally, it obsoletes RFCs 1385, 1393, 1475, and 1770, and requests that the RFC Editor change their status to Historic.
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Contents
Introduction
The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) RFC791 provides for expansion of the protocol by supporting a number of "options" in the variable-length IPv4 header. IPv4 options are identified by an option "type" value, whose registration is managed by IANA [IANA-IP]. A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4 options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry.
This document also obsoletes RFC1385, RFC1393, RFC1475, and RFC1770, and requests that the RFC Editor change their status to Historic.
Discussion of Deprecated Options
The following subsections discuss the options being deprecated. No other reference information has been found.
Stream ID
The Stream ID option is obsolete. It is specified in RFC 791 RFC791, and is deprecated in Section 3.2.1.8 of RFC 1122 RFC1122 and Section 4.2.2.1 of RFC 1812 RFC1812.
Extended Internet Protocol
The Extended Internet Protocol option is defined in RFC1385 and is superseded by RFC2460.
Traceroute
The Traceroute option is defined in RFC1393. The Traceroute option is defined as Experimental; it was never widely deployed on the public Internet.
ENCODE
This option was used for experimentation around IP-layer encryption. No products are known to ever have shipped with support for this option.
VISA
This option was part of an experiment [VISA87] [VISA89] at USC and was never widely deployed.
Address Extension
The Address Extension option is defined in an Experimental RFC RFC1475 and marked as IPv7. IPv7 was never widely deployed.
Selective Directed Broadcast
The Selective Directed Broadcast option was originally defined in RFC1770. This option was never widely deployed and the approach was abandoned.
Dynamic Packet State
The Dynamic Packet State option was specified in [DIFFSERV-DPS]. The aforementioned document was meant to be published as Experimental, but it never became an RFC. The IP option was never widely deployed.
Upstream Multicast Pkt.
This option was originally specified in [BIDIR-PIM]. Its use was deprecated by RFC5015, which employs a control-plane mechanism to solve the problem of doing upstream forwarding of multicast packets on a multi-access LAN.
IANA Considerations
The "IP OPTION NUMBERS" registry [IANA-IP] contains the list of currently assigned IP option numbers. This registry also denotes a deprecated IP Option Number by marking it with a footnote.
This document formally deprecates the following options. IANA has marked them as such in the corresponding registry [IANA-IP].
Copy Class Number Value Name Reference
----- ------ ----- ------------------------------- ------------
1 0 8 136 SID - Stream ID [RFC791,JBP] 1 0 14 142 VISA - Experimental Access Control [Estrin] 0 0 15 15 ENCODE - ??? [VerSteeg] 1 0 17 145 EIP - Extended Internet Protocol RFC1385 0 2 18 82 TR - Traceroute RFC1393 1 0 19 147 ADDEXT - Address Extension [Ullmann IPv7] 1 0 21 149 SDB - Selective Directed Broadcast [Graff] 1 0 23 151 DPS - Dynamic Packet State [Malis] 1 0 24 152 UMP - Upstream Multicast Pkt. [Farinacci]
The IP options "MTU Probe" (MTUP, value 11) and "MTU Reply" (MTUR, value 12) were initially defined in RFC1063 and have already been deprecated by RFC1191.
Changing the Status of the Corresponding RFCs to Historic
Per this document, the RFC Editor has changed the status of RFC1385, RFC1393, RFC1475, and RFC1770 to Historic.
Security Considerations
This document does not modify the security properties of the IPv4 options being deprecated.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Ron Bonica for his guidance.
The authors would like to thank Ran Atkinson, Fred Baker, Deborah Estrin, Dino Farinacci, Andrew Malis, Gene Tsudik, and Bill VerSteeg for providing insights on some of the options being formally deprecated by this document.
References
Normative References
RFC791 Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791, September
1981.
RFC1122 Braden, R., Ed., "Requirements for Internet Hosts -
Communication Layers", STD 3, RFC 1122, October 1989.
Informative References
[BIDIR-PIM] Estrin, D. and D. Farinacci, "Bi-Directional Shared Trees
in PIM-SM", Work in Progress, May 1999.
[DIFFSERV-DPS]
Stoica, I., Zhang, H., Venkitaraman, N., and J. Mysore,
"Per Hop Behaviors Based on Dynamic Packet State", Work in
Progress, October 2002.
[IANA-IP] Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, "IP OPTION NUMBERS",
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/ip-parameters>.
RFC1063 Mogul, J., Kent, C., Partridge, C., and K. McCloghrie, "IP
MTU discovery options", RFC 1063, July 1988.
RFC1191 Mogul, J. and S. Deering, "Path MTU discovery", RFC 1191,
November 1990.
RFC1385 Wang, Z., "EIP: The Extended Internet Protocol", RFC 1385,
November 1992.
RFC1393 Malkin, G., "Traceroute Using an IP Option", RFC 1393,
January 1993.
RFC1475 Ullmann, R., "TP/IX: The Next Internet", RFC 1475, June
1993.
RFC1770 Graff, C., "IPv4 Option for Sender Directed Multi-
Destination Delivery", RFC 1770, March 1995.
RFC1812 Baker, F., Ed., "Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers",
RFC 1812, June 1995.
RFC2460 Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.
RFC5015 Handley, M., Kouvelas, I., Speakman, T., and L. Vicisano,
"Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-
PIM)", RFC 5015, October 2007.
[VISA87] Estrin, D. and G. Tsudik, "VISA Scheme for Inter-
Organizational Network Security", IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy (S&P), 1987.
[VISA89] Estrin, D., Mogul, J., and G. Tsudik, "VISA Protocols for
Controlling Inter-Organizational Datagram Flow", IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1989.
Authors' Addresses
Carlos Pignataro Cisco Systems 7200-12 Kit Creek Road Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 United States
EMail: [email protected]
Fernando Gont UTN-FRH / SI6 Networks Evaristo Carriego 2644 Haedo, Provincia de Buenos Aires 1706 Argentina
Phone: +54 11 4650 8472 EMail: [email protected] URI: http://www.si6networks.com
