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Network Working Group P. Nesser, II Request for Comments: 3794 Nesser & Nesser Consulting Category: Informational A. Bergstrom, Ed.

                                            Ostfold University College
                                                             June 2004
          Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed
   IETF Transport Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents

Status of this Memo

 This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
 not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
 memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

 Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).

Abstract

 This document seeks to document all usage of IPv4 addresses in
 currently deployed IETF Transport Area documented standards.  In
 order to successfully transition from an all IPv4 Internet to an all
 IPv6 Internet, many interim steps will be taken.  One of these steps
 is the evolution of current protocols that have IPv4 dependencies.
 It is hoped that these protocols (and their implementations) will be
 redesigned to be network address independent, but failing that will
 at least dually support IPv4 and IPv6.  To this end, all Standards
 (Full, Draft, and Proposed) as well as Experimental RFCs will be
 surveyed and any dependencies will be documented.

Table of Contents

 1.0.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
 2.0.  Document Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
 3.0.  Full Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  2
 4.0.  Draft Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
 5.0.  Proposed Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
 6.0.  Experimental RFCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
 7.0.  Summary of Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       7.1.  Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       7.2.  Draft Standards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       7.3.  Proposed Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
       7.4.  Experimental RFCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
 8.0.  Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
 9.0.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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 10.0. Normative Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
 11.0. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
 12.0. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

1.0. Introduction

 This document is part of a document set aiming to document all usage
 of IPv4 addresses in IETF standards.  In an effort to have the
 information in a manageable form, it has been broken into 7 documents
 conforming to the current IETF areas (Application,  Internet,
 Operations & Management, Routing, Security, Sub-IP and Transport).
 For a full introduction, please see the introduction [1].

2.0. Document Organization

 The rest of the document sections are described below.
 Sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 each describe the raw analysis of Full,
 Draft, and Proposed Standards, and Experimental RFCs.  Each RFC is
 discussed in its turn starting with RFC 1 and ending with (around)
 RFC 3100. The comments for each RFC are "raw" in nature.  That is,
 each RFC is discussed in a vacuum and problems or issues discussed do
 not "look ahead" to see if the problems have already been fixed.
 Section 7 is an analysis of the data presented in Sections 3, 4, 5,
 and 6.  It is here that all of the results are considered as a whole
 and the problems that have been resolved in later RFCs are
 correlated.

3.0. Full Standards

 Full Internet Standards (most commonly simply referred to as
 "Standards") are fully mature protocol specification that are widely
 implemented and used throughout the Internet.

3.1. RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol

 Although UDP is a transport protocol there is one reference to the
 UDP/IP interface that states;  "The UDP module must be able to
 determine the source and destination internet addresses and the
 protocol field from the internet header."  This does not force a
 rewrite of the protocol but will clearly cause changes in
 implementations.

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3.2. RFC 793 Transmission Control Protocol

 Section 3.1 which specifies the header format for TCP.  The TCP
 header is free from IPv4 references but there is an inconsistency in
 the computation of checksums.  The text says:  "The checksum also
 covers a 96 bit pseudo header conceptually prefixed to the TCP
 header.  This pseudo header contains the Source Address, the
 Destination Address, the Protocol, and TCP length."  The first and
 second 32-bit words are clearly meant to specify 32-bit IPv4
 addresses.  While no modification of the TCP protocol is necessitated
 by this problem, an alternate needs to be specified as an update
 document, or as part of another IPv6 document.

3.3. RFC 907 Host Access Protocol specification

 This is a layer 3 protocol, and has as such no IPv4 dependencies.

3.4. NetBIOS Service Protocols. RFC1001, RFC1002

 3.4.1.   RFC 1001 PROTOCOL STANDARD FOR A NetBIOS SERVICE ON A
          TCP/UDP TRANSPORT: CONCEPTS AND METHODS
    Section 15.4.1.  RELEASE BY B NODES defines:
       A NAME RELEASE DEMAND contains the following information:
  1. NetBIOS name
  2. The scope of the NetBIOS name
  3. Name type: unique or group
  4. IP address of the releasing node
  5. Transaction ID
    Section 15.4.2.  RELEASE BY P NODES defines:
       A NAME RELEASE REQUEST contains the following information:
  1. NetBIOS name
  2. The scope of the NetBIOS name
  3. Name type: unique or group
  4. IP address of the releasing node
  5. Transaction ID

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       A NAME RELEASE RESPONSE contains the following information:
  1. NetBIOS name
  2. The scope of the NetBIOS name
  3. Name type: unique or group
  4. IP address of the releasing node
  5. Transaction ID
  6. Result:
    1. Yes: name was released
    2. No: name was not released, a reason code is provided
    Section 16.  NetBIOS SESSION SERVICE states:
       The NetBIOS session service begins after one or more IP
       addresses have been found for the target name.  These addresses
       may have been acquired using the NetBIOS name query
       transactions or by other means, such as a local name table or
       cache.
    Section 16.1.  OVERVIEW OF NetBIOS SESSION SERVICE
       Session service has three phases:
       Session establishment - it is during this phase that the IP
          address and TCP port of the called name is determined, and a
          TCP connection is established with the remote party.
    6.1.1.  SESSION ESTABLISHMENT PHASE OVERVIEW
       An end-node begins establishment of a session to another node
       by somehow acquiring (perhaps using the name query transactions
       or a local cache) the IP address of the node or nodes purported
       to own the destination name.
       Once the TCP connection is open, the calling node sends session
       service request packet.  This packet contains the following
       information:
  1. Calling IP address (see note)
  2. Calling NetBIOS name
  3. Called IP address (see note)
  4. Called NetBIOS name
       NOTE: The IP addresses are obtained from the TCP service
             interface.

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       If a compatible LISTEN exists, and there are adequate
       resources, then the session server may transform the existing
       TCP connection into the NetBIOS data session.  Alternatively,
       the session server may redirect, or "retarget" the caller to
       another TCP port (and IP address).
       If the caller is redirected, the caller begins the session
       establishment anew, but using the new IP address and TCP port
       given in the retarget response.  Again a TCP connection is
       created, and again the calling and called node exchange
       credentials.  The called party may accept the call, reject the
       call, or make a further redirection.
    17.1.  OVERVIEW OF NetBIOS DATAGRAM SERVICE
       Every NetBIOS datagram has a named destination and source.  To
       transmit a NetBIOS datagram, the datagram service must perform
       a name query operation to learn the IP address and the
       attributes of the destination NetBIOS name.  (This information
       may be cached to avoid the overhead of name query on subsequent
       NetBIOS datagrams.)
    17.1.1.  UNICAST, MULTICAST, AND BROADCAST
       NetBIOS datagrams may be unicast, multicast, or broadcast.  A
       NetBIOS datagram addressed to a unique NetBIOS name is unicast.
       A NetBIOS datagram addressed to a group NetBIOS name, whether
       there are zero, one, or more actual members, is multicast.  A
       NetBIOS datagram sent using the NetBIOS "Send Broadcast
       Datagram" primitive is broadcast.
    17.1.2.  FRAGMENTATION OF NetBIOS DATAGRAMS
       When the header and data of a NetBIOS datagram exceeds the
       maximum amount of data allowed in a UDP packet, the NetBIOS
       datagram must be fragmented before transmission and reassembled
       upon receipt.
       A NetBIOS Datagram is composed of the following protocol
       elements:
  1. IP header of 20 bytes (minimum)
  2. UDP header of 8 bytes
  3. NetBIOS Datagram Header of 14 bytes
  4. The NetBIOS Datagram data.

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    18.  NODE CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS
  1. B NODES:
    1. Node's permanent unique name
    2. Whether IGMP is in use
    3. Broadcast IP address to use
    4. Whether NetBIOS session keep-alives are needed
    5. Usable UDP data field length (to control fragmentation)
  2. P NODES:
    1. Node's permanent unique name
    2. IP address of NBNS
    3. IP address of NBDD
    4. Whether NetBIOS session keep-alives are needed
    5. Usable UDP data field length (to control fragmentation)
  3. M NODES:
    1. Node's permanent unique name
    2. Whether IGMP is in use
    3. Broadcast IP address to use
    4. IP address of NBNS
    5. IP address of NBDD
    6. Whether NetBIOS session keep-alives are needed
    7. Usable UDP data field length (to control fragmentation)
 All of the proceeding sections make implicit use of IPv4 addresses
 and a new specification should be defined for use of IPv6 underlying
 addresses.
 3.4.2.  RFC 1002 PROTOCOL STANDARD FOR A NetBIOS SERVICE ON A
         TCP/UDP TRANSPORT: DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
    Section 4.2.1.3.  RESOURCE RECORD defines
       RESOURCE RECORD RR_TYPE field definitions:
       Symbol      Value   Description:
       A          0x0001   IP address Resource Record (See
                           REDIRECT NAME QUERY RESPONSE)
       Sections 4.2.2.  NAME REGISTRATION REQUEST,  4.2.3.  NAME
       OVERWRITE REQUEST & DEMAND,  4.2.4.  NAME REFRESH REQUEST,
       4.2.5.  POSITIVE NAME REGISTRATION RESPONSE, 4.2.6.  NEGATIVE
       NAME REGISTRATION RESPONSE, 4.2.7.  END-NODE CHALLENGE
       REGISTRATION RESPONSE,  4.2.9.  NAME RELEASE REQUEST & DEMAND,
       4.2.10.  POSITIVE NAME RELEASE RESPONSE, 4.2.11.  NEGATIVE NAME
       RELEASE RESPONSE and Sections 4.2.13.  POSITIVE NAME QUERY

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       RESPONSE all contain 32 bit fields labeled "NB_ADDRESS" clearly
       defined for IPv4 addresses Sections 4.2.15.  REDIRECT NAME
       QUERY RESPONSE contains a field "NSD_IP_ADDR" which also is
       designed for a IPv4 address.
    Section 4.3.5.  SESSION RETARGET RESPONSE PACKET
                   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

TYPE FLAGS LENGTH

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

RETARGET_IP_ADDRESS

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

PORT

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

    Section 4.4.1.  NetBIOS DATAGRAM HEADER
                   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

MSG_TYPE FLAGS DGM_ID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_IP

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_PORT DGM_LENGTH

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

PACKET_OFFSET

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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    Section 4.4.2.  DIRECT_UNIQUE, DIRECT_GROUP, & BROADCAST
                    DATAGRAM
                   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

MSG_TYPE FLAGS DGM_ID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_IP

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_PORT DGM_LENGTH

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

PACKET_OFFSET

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |

/ SOURCE_NAME / / /

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

/ DESTINATION_NAME / / /

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

/ USER_DATA / / /

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

    Section 4.4.3.  DATAGRAM ERROR PACKET
                   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

MSG_TYPE FLAGS DGM_ID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_IP

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_PORT ERROR_CODE

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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    Section 4.4.4.  DATAGRAM QUERY REQUEST
                   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

MSG_TYPE FLAGS DGM_ID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_IP

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_PORT

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +

/ DESTINATION_NAME / / /

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

    4.4.5.  DATAGRAM POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE QUERY RESPONSE
                   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

MSG_TYPE FLAGS DGM_ID

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_IP

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

SOURCE_PORT

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +

/ DESTINATION_NAME / / /

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

    5.3.  NetBIOS DATAGRAM SERVICE PROTOCOLS
       The following are GLOBAL variables and should be NetBIOS user
       configurable:
  1. BROADCAST_ADDRESS: the IP address B-nodes use to send

datagrams with group name destinations and broadcast

          datagrams.  The default is the IP broadcast address for a
          single IP network.

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    There is also a large amount of pseudo code for most of the
    protocols functionality that make no specific reference to IPv4
    addresses. However they assume the use of the above defined
    packets.  The pseudo code may be valid for IPv6 as long as the
    packet formats are updated.

3.5. RFC 1006 ISO Transport Service on top of the TCP (Version: 3)

    Section 5.  The Protocol defines a mapping specification
       Mapping parameters is also straight-forward:
          network service             TCP
                  -------             ---
                      CONNECTION RELEASE
            Called address          server's IP address
                                    (4 octets)
            Calling address         client's IP address
                                    (4 octets)

4.0. Draft Standards

 Draft Standards represent the penultimate standard level in the IETF.
 A protocol can only achieve draft standard when there are multiple,
 independent, interoperable implementations.  Draft Standards are
 usually quite mature and widely used.
 4.1.  RFC 3530 Network File System (NFS) version 4 Protocol
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 4.2.  RFC 3550 RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 4.3.  RFC 3551 RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with
       Minimal Control.
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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5.0. Proposed Standards

 Proposed Standards are introductory level documents.  There are no
 requirements for even a single implementation.  In many cases
 Proposed are never implemented or advanced in the IETF standards
 process.  They therefore are often just proposed ideas that are
 presented to the Internet community.  Sometimes flaws are exposed or
 they are one of many competing solutions to problems.  In these later
 cases, no discussion is presented as it would not serve the purpose
 of this discussion.
 5.01.  RFC 1144 Compressing TCP/IP headers for low-speed serial
        links
    This RFC is specifically oriented towards TCP/IPv4 packet headers
    and will not work in it's current form.  Significant work has
    already been done on similar algorithms for TCP/IPv6 headers.
 5.02.  RFC 1323 TCP Extensions for High Performance
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.03.  RFC 1553 Compressing IPX Headers Over WAN Media (CIPX)
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.04.  RFC 1692 Transport Multiplexing Protocol (TMux)
    Section 6.  Implementation Notes is states:
       Because the TMux mini-header does not contain a TOS field, only
       segments with the same IP TOS field should be contained in a
       single TMux message.  As most systems do not use the TOS
       feature, this is not a major restriction.  Where the TOS field
       is used, it may be desirable to hold several messages under
       construction for a host, one for each TOS value.
       Segments containing IP options should not be multiplexed.
    This is clearly IPv4 specific, but a simple restatement in IPv6
    terms will allow complete functionality.
 5.05.  RFC 1831 RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol
        Specification Version 2 RPC
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 5.06.  RFC 1833 Binding Protocols for ONC RPC Version 2
    In Section 2.1 RPCBIND Protocol Specification (in RPC Language)
    there is the following code fragment:
  • Protocol family (r_nc_protofmly):
  • This identifies the family to which the protocol belongs.
  • The following values are defined:
  • NC_NOPROTOFMLY "-"
  • NC_LOOPBACK "loopback"
  • NC_INET "inet"
  • NC_IMPLINK "implink"
  • NC_PUP "pup"
  • NC_CHAOS "chaos"
  • NC_NS "ns"
  • NC_NBS "nbs"
  • NC_ECMA "ecma"
  • NC_DATAKIT "datakit"
  • NC_CCITT "ccitt"
  • NC_SNA "sna"
  • NC_DECNET "decnet"
  • NC_DLI "dli"
  • NC_LAT "lat"
  • NC_HYLINK "hylink"
  • NC_APPLETALK "appletalk"
  • NC_NIT "nit"
  • NC_IEEE802 "ieee802"
  • NC_OSI "osi"
  • NC_X25 "x25"
  • NC_OSINET "osinet"
  • NC_GOSIP "gosip"
    It is clear that the value for NC_INET is intended for the IP
    protocol and is seems clear that it is IPv4 dependent.
 5.07.  RFC 1962 The PPP Compression Control Protocol (CCP)
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.08.  RFC 2018 TCP Selective Acknowledgement Options
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.09.  RFC 2029 RTP Payload Format of Sun's CellB Video Encoding
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 5.10.  RFC 2032 RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video Streams
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.11.  RFC 2126 ISO Transport Service on top of TCP (ITOT)
    This specification is IPv6 aware and has no issues.
 5.12.  RFC 2190 RTP Payload Format for H.263 Video Streams
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.13.  RFC 2198 RTP Payload for Redundant Audio Data
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.14.  RFC 2205 Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) --
        Version 1 Functional Specification
    In Section 1.  Introduction the statement is made:
       RSVP operates on top of IPv4 or IPv6, occupying the place of a
       transport protocol in the protocol stack.
    Appendix A defines all of the header formats for RSVP and there
    are multiple formats for both IPv4 and IPv6.
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.15.  RFC 2207 RSVP Extensions for IPSEC Data Flows
    The defined IPsec extensions are valid for both IPv4 & IPv6.
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.16.  RFC 2210 The Use of RSVP with IETF Integrated Services
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.17.  RFC 2211 Specification of the Controlled-Load Network
        Element Service
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.18.  RFC 2212 Specification of Guaranteed Quality of Service
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 5.19.  RFC 2215 General Characterization Parameters for
        Integrated Service Network Elements
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.20.  RFC 2250 RTP Payload Format for MPEG1/MPEG2 Video
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.21.  RFC 2326 Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
    Section 3.2 RTSP URL defines:
       The "rtsp" and "rtspu" schemes are used to refer to network
       resources via the RTSP protocol.  This section defines the
       scheme-specific syntax and semantics for RTSP URLs.
          rtsp_URL  =   ( "rtsp:" | "rtspu:" )
                        "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path ]
          host      =   <A legal Internet host domain name of IP
                        address (in dotted decimal form), as defined
                        by Section 2.1 of RFC 1123 \cite{rfc1123}>
          port      =   *DIGIT
       Although later in that section the following text is added:
          The use of IP addresses in URLs SHOULD be avoided whenever
          possible (see RFC 1924 [19]).
          Some later examples show:
          Example:
          C->S: DESCRIBE rtsp://server.example.com/fizzle/foo RTSP/1.0
                CSeq: 312
                Accept: application/sdp, application/rtsl,
                        application/mheg
          S->C: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
                CSeq: 312
                Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:35:06 GMT
                Content-Type: application/sdp
                Content-Length: 376
                v=0
                o=mhandley 2890844526 2890842807 IN IP4 126.16.64.4
                s=SDP Seminar
                i=A Seminar on the session description protocol

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                u=http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Handley/sdp.03.ps
                e=mjh@isi.edu (Mark Handley)
                c=IN IP4 224.2.17.12/127
                t=2873397496 2873404696
                a=recvonly
                m=audio 3456 RTP/AVP 0
                m=video 2232 RTP/AVP 31
                m=whiteboard 32416 UDP WB
                a=orient:portrait
    which implies the use of the "IP4" tag and it should be possible
    to use an "IP6" tag.  There are also numerous other similar
    examples using the "IP4" tag.
    RTSP is also dependent on IPv6 support in a protocol capable of
    describing media configurations, for example SDP RFC 2327.
    RTSP can be used over IPv6 as long as the media description
    protocol supports IPv6, but only for certain restricted use cases.
    For full functionality there is need for IPv6 support.  The amount
    of updates needed are small.
 5.22.  RFC 2327 SDP: Session Description Protocol (SDP)
    This specification is under revision, and IPv6 support was added
    in RFC 3266 which updates this specification.
 5.23.  RFC 2380 RSVP over ATM Implementation Requirements
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware.
 5.24.  RFC 2381 Interoperation of Controlled-Load Service and
        Guaranteed Service with ATM
    There does not seem any inherent IPv4 limitations in this
    specification, but it assumes work of other standards that have
    IPv4 limitations.
 5.25.  RFC 2429 RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T
        Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+)
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.26.  RFC 2431 RTP Payload Format for BT.656 Video Encoding
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 5.27.  RFC 2435 RTP Payload Format for JPEG-compressed Video
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.28.  RFC 2474 Definition of the Differentiated Services Field
        (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware.
 5.29.  RFC 2508 Compressing IP/UDP/RTP Headers for Low-Speed
        Serial Links
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware.
 5.30.  RFC 2581 TCP Congestion Control
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.31.  RFC 2597 Assured Forwarding PHB Group
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware.
 5.32.  RFC 2658 RTP Payload Format for PureVoice(tm) Audio
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.33.  RFC 2678 IPPM Metrics for Measuring Connectivity
    This specification only supports IPv4.
 5.34.  RFC 2679 A One-way Delay Metric for IPPM
    This specification only supports IPv4.
 5.35.  RFC 2680 A One-way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM
    This specification only supports IPv4.
 5.36.  RFC 2681 A Round-trip Delay Metric for IPPM
    This specification only supports IPv4.
 5.37.  RFC 2730 Multicast Address Dynamic Client Allocation Protocol
        (MADCAP)
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.

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 5.38.  RFC 2733 An RTP Payload Format for Generic Forward Error
        Correction
    This specification is dependent on SDP which has IPv4
    dependencies.  Once that limitation is fixed, then this
    specification should support IPv6.
 5.39.  RFC 2745 RSVP Diagnostic Messages
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 5.40.  RFC 2746 RSVP Operation Over IP Tunnels
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 5.41.  RFC 2750 RSVP Extensions for Policy Control
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.42.  RFC 2793 RTP Payload for Text Conversation
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.43.  RFC 2814 SBM (Subnet Bandwidth Manager): A Protocol for
        RSVP-based Admission Control over IEEE 802-style networks
    This specification claims to be both IPv4 and IPv6 aware, but  all
    of the examples are given with IPv4 addresses.  That, by itself is
    not a telling point but the following statement is made:
       a) LocalDSBMAddrInfo -- current DSBM's IP address (initially,
       0.0.0.0) and priority.  All IP addresses are assumed to be in
       network byte order.  In addition, current DSBM's L2 address is
       also stored as part of this state information.
    which could just be sloppy wording.  Perhaps a short document
    clarifying the text is appropriate.
 5.44.  RFC 2815 Integrated Service Mappings on IEEE 802 Networks
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.45.  RFC 2833 RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones
        and Telephony Signals
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 5.46.  RFC 2848 The PINT Service Protocol: Extensions to SIP and
        SDP for IP Access to Telephone Call Services
    This specification is dependent on SDP which has IPv4
    dependencies.  Once these limitations are fixed, then this
    specification should support IPv6.
 5.47.  RFC 2862 RTP Payload Format for Real-Time Pointers
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.48.  RFC 2872 Application and Sub Application Identity Policy
        Element for Use with RSVP
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.49.  RFC 2873 TCP Processing of the IPv4 Precedence Field
    This specification documents a technique using IPv4 headers.  A
    similar technique, if needed, will need to be defined for IPv6.
 5.50.  RFC 2883 An Extension to the Selective Acknowledgement (SACK)
        Option for TCP
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.51.  RFC 2907 MADCAP Multicast Scope Nesting State Option
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 5.52.  RFC 2960 Stream Control Transmission Protocol
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 5.53.  RFC 2961 RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction Extensions
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 5.54.  RFC 2976 The SIP INFO Method
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.55.  RFC 2988 Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 5.56.  RFC 2996 Format of the RSVP DCLASS Object
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.57.  RFC 2997 Specification of the Null Service Type
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.58.  RFC 3003 The audio/mpeg Media Type
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.59.  RFC 3006 Integrated Services in the Presence of
        Compressible Flows
    This document defines a protocol that discusses compressible
    flows, but only in an IPv4 context.  When IPv6 compressible flows
    are defined, a similar technique should also be defined.
 5.60.  RFC 3016 RTP Payload Format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual
        Streams
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.61.  RFC 3033 The Assignment of the Information Field and
        Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and
        Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 5.62.  RFC 3042 Enhancing TCP's Loss Recovery Using Limited Transmit
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.63.  RFC 3047 RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.64.  RFC 3057 ISDN Q.921-User Adaptation Layer
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 5.65.  RFC 3095 Robust Header Compression (ROHC): Framework and four
        profiles
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 5.66.  RFC 3108 Conventions for the use of the Session Description
        Protocol (SDP) for ATM Bearer Connections
    This specification is currently limited to IPv4 as amplified
    below:
       The range and format of the <rtcpPortNum> and <rtcpIPaddr>
       subparameters is per [1].  The <rtcpPortNum> is a decimal
       number between 1024 and 65535.  It is an odd number.  If an
       even number in this range is specified, the next odd number is
       used.  The <rtcpIPaddr> is expressed in the usual dotted
       decimal IP address representation, from 0.0.0.0 to
       255.255.255.255.
    and
          <rtcpIPaddr>      IP address for  receipt  Dotted decimal,
                            7-15 chars of RTCP packets
 5.67.  RFC 3119 A More Loss-Tolerant RTP Payload Format for MP3 Audio
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.68.  RFC 3124 The Congestion Manager
    This document is IPv4 limited since it uses the IPv4 TOS header
    field.
 5.69.  RFC 3140 Per Hop Behavior Identification Codes
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.70.  RFC 3173 IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp)
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.71.  RFC 3181 Signaled Preemption Priority Policy Element
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 5.72.  RFC 3182 Identity Representation for RSVP
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.73.  RFC 3246 An Expedited Forwarding PHB (Per-Hop Behavior)
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.74.  RFC 3261 SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.75.  RFC 3262 Reliability of Provisional Responses in Session
        Initiation Protocol (SIP)
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.76.  RFC 3263 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): Locating SIP
        Servers
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.77.  RFC 3264 An Offer/Answer Model with Session Description
        Protocol (SDP)
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.78.  RFC 3265 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-Specific Event
        Notification
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.79.  RFC 3390 Increasing TCP's Initial Window
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.80.  RFC 3525 Gateway Control Protocol Version 1
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 5.81.  RFC 3544 IP Header Compression over PPP
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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6.0. Experimental RFCs

 Experimental RFCs typically define protocols that do not have
 widescale implementation or usage on the Internet.  They are often
 propriety in nature or used in limited arenas.  They are documented
 to the Internet community in order to allow potential
 interoperability or some other potential useful scenario.  In a few
 cases they are presented as alternatives to the mainstream solution
 to an acknowledged problem.
 6.1.  RFC 908 Reliable Data Protocol (RDP)
    This document is IPv4 limited as stated in the following section:
    4.1.  IP Header Format
       When used in the internet environment, RDP segments are sent
       using the version 4 IP header as described in RFC791, "Internet
       Protocol."  The RDP protocol number is ??? (decimal).  The
       time-to-live field should be set to a reasonable value for the
       network.
       All other fields should be set as specified in RFC-791.
    A new protocol specification would be needed to support IPv6.
 6.02.  RFC 938 Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol functional and
        interface specification (IRTP)
    This specification states:
    4.1.  State Variables
       Each IRTP is associated with a single internet address.  The
       synchronization mechanism of the IRTP depends on the
       requirement that each IRTP module knows the internet addresses
       of all modules with which it will communicate.  For each remote
       internet address, an IRTP module must maintain the following
       information (called the connection table):
       rem_addr     (32 bit remote internet address)
    A new specification that is IPv6 aware would need to be created.

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 6.03.  RFC 998 NETBLT: A bulk data transfer protocol
    This RFC states:
       The active end specifies a passive client through a client-
       specific "well-known" 16 bit port number on which the passive
       end listens.  The active end identifies itself through a 32 bit
       Internet address and a unique 16 bit port number.
    Clearly, this is IPv4 dependent, but could easily be modified to
    support IPv6 addressing.
 6.04.  RFC 1045 VMTP: Versatile Message Transaction Protocol
    This specification has many IPv4 dependencies in its
    implementation appendices.  For operations over IPv6 a similar
    implementation procedure must be defined.  The IPv4 specific
    information is show below.
    IV.1.  Domain 1
       For initial use of VMTP, we define the domain with Domain
       identifier 1 as follows:
       +-----------+----------------+------------------------+
       | TypeFlags | Discriminator  |    Internet Address    |
       +-----------+----------------+------------------------+
          4 bits          28 bits                32 bits
       The Internet address is the Internet address of the host on
       which this entity-id is originally allocated.  The
       Discriminator is an arbitrary value that is unique relative to
       this Internet host address.  In addition, the host must
       guarantee that this identifier does not get reused for a long
       period of time after it becomes invalid.  ("Invalid" means that
       no VMTP module considers in bound to an entity.)  One technique
       is to use the lower order bits of a 1 second clock.  The clock
       need not represent real-time but must never be set back after a
       crash.  In a simple implementation, using the low order bits of
       a clock as the time stamp, the generation of unique identifiers
       is overall limited to no more than 1 per second on average.
       The type flags were described in Section 3.1.
       An entity may migrate between hosts.  Thus, an implementation
       can heuristically use the embedded Internet address to locate
       an entity but should be prepared to maintain a cache of
       redirects for migrated entities, plus accept Notify operations
       indicating that migration has occurred.

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       Entity group identifiers in Domain 1 are structured in one of
       two forms, depending on whether they are well-known or
       dynamically allocated identifiers.  A well-known entity
       identifier is structured as:
       +-----------+----------------+------------------------+
       | TypeFlags |  Discriminator |Internet Host Group Addr|
       +-----------+----------------+------------------------+
          4 bits          28 bits                32 bits
       with the second high-order bit (GRP) set to 1.  This form of
       entity identifier is mapped to the Internet host group address
       specified in the low-order 32 bits.  The Discriminator
       distinguishes group identifiers using the same Internet host
       group.  Well-known entity group identifiers should be allocated
       to correspond to the basic services provided by hosts that are
       members of the group, not specifically because that service is
       provided by VMTP.  For example, the well-known entity group
       identifier for the domain name service should contain as its
       embedded Internet host group address the host group for Domain
       Name servers.
       A dynamically allocated entity identifier is structured as:
       +-----------+----------------+------------------------+
       | TypeFlags |  Discriminator |   Internet Host Addr   |
       +-----------+----------------+------------------------+
          4 bits          28 bits             32 bits
       with the second high-order bit (GRP) set to 1.  The Internet
       address in the low-order 32 bits is a Internet address assigned
       to the host that dynamically allocates this entity group
       identifier.  A dynamically allocated entity group identifier is
       mapped to Internet host group address 232.X.X.X where X.X.X are
       the low-order 24 bits of the Discriminator subfield of the
       entity group identifier.
       We use the following notation for Domain 1 entity identifiers
       <10> and propose it use as a standard convention.
       <flags>-<discriminator>-<Internet address>

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    where <flags> are [X]{BE,LE,RG,UG}[A]
       X = reserved
       BE = big-endian entity
       LE = little-endian entity
       RG = restricted group
       UG = unrestricted group
       A  = alias
    and <discriminator> is a decimal integer and <Internet address> is
    in standard dotted decimal IP address notation.
    V.1.  Authentication Domain 1
       A principal identifier is structured as follows.
       +---------------------------+------------------------+
       |     Internet Address      | Local User Identifier  |
       +---------------------------+------------------------+
                   32 bits                    32 bits
    VI.  IP Implementation
       VMTP is designed to be implemented on the DoD IP Internet
       Datagram Protocol (although it may also be implemented as a
       local network protocol directly in "raw" network packets.)
       The well-known entity identifiers specified to date are:
    VMTP_MANAGER_GROUP   RG-1-224.0.1.0
                    Managers for VMTP operations.
    VMTP_DEFAULT_BECLIENT  BE-1-224.0.1.0
                    Client entity identifier to use when a (big-
                    endian) host has not determined or been allocated
                    any client entity identifiers.
    VMTP_DEFAULT_LECLIENT  LE-1-224.0.1.0
                    Client entity identifier to use when a (little-
                    endian) host has not determined or been allocated
                    any client entity identifiers.
    Note that 224.0.1.0 is the host group address assigned to VMTP and
    to which all VMTP hosts belong.
 6.05.  RFC 1146 TCP alternate checksum options
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.

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 6.06.  RFC 1151 Version 2 of the Reliable Data Protocol (RDP)
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 6.07.  RFC 1644 T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functional
        Specification
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 6.08.  RFC 1693 An Extension to TCP : Partial Order Service
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 6.09.  RFC 1791 TCP And UDP Over IPX Networks With Fixed Path MTU
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 6.10.  RFC 2343 RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 6.11.  RFC 2582 The NewReno Modification to TCP's Fast Recovery
        Algorithm
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 6.12.  RFC 2762 Sampling of the Group Membership in RTP
    There are no IPv4 dependencies in this specification.
 6.13.  RFC 2859 A Time Sliding Window Three Colour Marker (TSWTCM)
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 6.14.  RFC 2861 TCP Congestion Window Validation
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.
 6.15.  RFC 2909 The Multicast Address-Set Claim (MASC) Protocol
    This specification is both IPv4 and IPv6 aware and needs no
    changes.

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7.0. Summary of Results

 In the initial survey of RFCs 24 positives were identified out of a
 total of 104, broken down as follows:
       Standards:                         3 out of  5 or 60.00%
       Draft Standards:                   0 out of  2 or  0.00%
       Proposed Standards:               17 out of 82 or 20.73%
       Experimental RFCs:                 4 out of 15 or 26.67%
 Of those identified many require no action because they document
 outdated and unused protocols, while others are document protocols
 that are actively being updated by the appropriate working groups.
 Additionally there are many instances of standards that SHOULD be
 updated but do not cause any operational impact if they are not
 updated.  The remaining instances are documented below.

7.1. Standards

 7.1.1.  STD 7 Transmission Control Protocol (RFC 793)
    Section 3.1 defines the technique for computing the TCP checksum
    that uses the 32 bit source and destination IPv4 addresses.  This
    problem is addressed in RFC 2460 Section 8.1.
 7.1.2.  STD 19 Netbios over TCP/UDP (RFCs 1001 & 1002)
    These two RFCs have many inherent IPv4 assumptions and a new set
    of protocols must be defined.
 7.1.3.  STD 35 ISO Transport over TCP (RFC 1006)
    This problem has been fixed in RFC 2126, ISO Transport Service on
    top of TCP.

7.2. Draft Standards

 There are no draft standards within the scope of this document.

7.3. Proposed Standards

 7.3.01.  TCP/IP Header Compression over Slow Serial Links (RFC 1144)
    This problem has been resolved in RFC2508, Compressing IP/UDP/RTP
    Headers for Low-Speed Serial Links.  See also RFC 2507 & RFC 2509.

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 7.3.02.  ONC RPC v2 (RFC 1833)
    The problems can be resolved with a definition of the NC_INET6
    protocol family.
 7.3.03.  RTSP (RFC 2326)
    Problem has been acknowledged by the RTSP developer group and will
    be addressed in the move from Proposed to Draft Standard.  This
    problem is also addressed in RFC 2732, IPv6 Literal Addresses in
    URL's.
 7.3.04.  SDP (RFC 2327)
    One problem is addressed in RFC 2732, IPv6 Literal Addresses in
    URL's.  The other problem can be addressed with a minor textual
    clarification.  This must be done if the document is to transition
    from Proposed to Draft.  These problems are solved by documents
    currently in Auth48 or IESG discuss.
 7.3.05.  IPPM Metrics (RFC 2678)
    The IPPM WG is working to resolve these issues.
 7.3.06.  IPPM One Way Delay Metric for IPPM (RFC 2679)
    The IPPM WG is working to resolve these issues.  An ID is
    available (draft-ietf-ippm-owdp-03.txt).
 7.3.07.  IPPM One Way Packet Loss Metric for IPPM (RFC 2680)
    The IPPM WG is working to resolve these issues.
 7.3.09.  Round Trip Delay Metric for IPPM (RFC 2681)
    The IPPM WG is working to resolve these issues.
 7.3.08.  The PINT Service Protocol: Extensions to SIP and SDP for IP
          Access to Telephone Call Services(RFC 2848)
    This specification is dependent on SDP which has IPv4
    dependencies.  Once these limitations are fixed, then this
    protocol should support IPv6.
 7.3.09.  TCP Processing of the IPv4 Precedence Field (RFC 2873)
    The problems are not being addressed.

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 7.3.10.  Integrated Services in the Presence of Compressible Flows
          (RFC 3006)
    This document defines a protocol that discusses compressible
    flows, but only in an IPv4 context.  When IPv6 compressible flows
    are defined, a similar technique should also be defined.
 7.3.11.  SDP For ATM Bearer Connections  (RFC 3108)
    The problems are not being addressed, but it is unclear whether
    the specification is being used.
 7.3.12.  The Congestion Manager (RFC 3124)
    An update to this document can be simply define the use of the
    IPv6 Traffic Class field since it is defined to be exactly the
    same as the IPv4 TOS field.

7.4. Experimental RFCs

 7.4.1.  Reliable Data Protocol (RFC 908)
    This specification relies on IPv4 and a new protocol standard may
    be produced.
 7.4.2.  Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol functional and
         interface specification (RFC 938)
    This specification relies on IPv4 and a new protocol standard may
    be produced.
 7.4.3.  NETBLT: A bulk data transfer protocol (RFC 998)
    This specification relies on IPv4 and a new protocol standard may
    be produced.
 7.4.4.  VMTP: Versatile Message Transaction Protocol (RFC 1045)
    This specification relies on IPv4 and a new protocol standard may
    be produced.
 7.4.5.  OSPF over ATM and Proxy-PAR (RFC 2844)
    This specification relies on IPv4 and a new protocol standard may
    be produced.

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8.0. Security Considerations

 This memo examines the IPv6-readiness of specifications; this does
 not have security considerations in itself.

9.0. Acknowledgements

 The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Internet
 Society in the research and production of this document.
 Additionally the author, Philip J. Nesser II, would like to thanks
 his partner in all ways, Wendy M. Nesser.
 The editor, Andreas Bergstrom, would like to thank Pekka Savola for
 guidance and collection of comments for the editing of this document.
 He would further like to thank Allison Mankin, Magnus Westerlund and
 Colin Perkins for valuable feedback on some points of this document.

10.0. Normative Reference

 [1]  Nesser, II, P. and A. Bergstrom, Editor, "Introduction to the
      Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Standards",
      RFC 3789, June 2004.

11.0. Authors' Addresses

 Please contact the authors with any questions, comments or
 suggestions at:
 Philip J. Nesser II
 Principal
 Nesser & Nesser Consulting
 13501 100th Ave NE, #5202
 Kirkland, WA 98034
 Phone:  +1 425 481 4303
 Fax:    +1 425 48
 EMail:  phil@nesser.com
 Andreas Bergstrom, Editor
 Ostfold University College
 Rute 503 Buer
 N-1766 Halden
 Norway
 EMail: andreas.bergstrom@hiof.no

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