Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers

This specification has been revised 3 times since RFC 985 (1986). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 985 (1986)
  2. RFC 1009 (1987)
  3. RFC 1716 (1994)
  4. RFC 1812 (1995)

Current version — implement against this

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 1812 (June 1995).