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Some Improtant RFCs

About RFC's
List of all RFCs (INDEX.rfc)   
Standard Rfc's List   

RFC's Of Particular Interest
IPV6

IPv6 Networking for the 21st Century   
IPv6 Document Library   
RFC2764   A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks
RFC2466    Management Information Base for IP Version 6: ICMPv6
RFC1881   IPv6 Address Allocation Management
RFC1981   Path MTU Discovery for IP version 6
RFC2463  Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6)
RFC2375    IPv6 Multicast Address Assignments
RFC2428  FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs
RFC2740   OSPF for IPv6
RFC2553  Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
RFC2185    Routing Aspects of IPv6 Transition
RFC2529   Transmission of IPv6 over IPv4 Domains without Explicit Tunnels

TCP
RFC2525    Known TCP Implementation Problems
RFC1323   TCP Extensions for High Performance
RFC896    Congestion control in IP/TCP internetworks
RFC2309    Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet
RFC1191    Path MTU discovery

UDP
RFC768    User Datagram Protocol
RFC2131    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (Built over UDP)
RFC2453    RIP Version 2 (Built over UDP)

Firewalls and Internet Security
RFC2588    IP Multicast and Firewalls
RFC1636    Report of IAB Workshop on Security in the Internet Architecture
RFC2764    A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks
RFC2003   IP Encapsulation within IP
RFC2408   Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP)
RFC2401  Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
RFC2630    Cryptographic Message Syntax

Domain Name System(DNS)
RFC1591   Domain Name System Structure and Delegation
RFC1035    Domain names - implementation and specification
RFC2168   Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System
RFC1712    DNS Encoding of Geographical Location

Routing and Gateway Protocols
RFC1771   BGP4
RFC2328    OSPF Version 2
RFC2453   RIP2
RFC1403   BGP OSPF Interaction
RFC1519  Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)

MPLS and VPN
RFC3031   Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture
RFC2917   A Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture
RFC2547  BGP/MPLS VPNs
RFC3035  MPLS using LDP and ATM VC Switching
RFC3032  MPLS Label Stack Encoding
RFC2702  Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS
RF3209  MPLS Label Stack Encoding
RFC2685  Virtual Private Networks Identifier

Others
RFC821  Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
RFC2046  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
RFC2505  Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
RFC1939  Post Office Protocol - Version 3
RFC959  FTP
RFC854  Telnet Protocol Specification
RFC2463  Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6 )