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RFC 1958: Architectural Principles of the Internet

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The Internet and its architecture have grown in evolutionary fashion from modest beginnings, rather than from a Grand Plan. While this process of evolution is one of the main reasons for the technology's success, it nevertheless seems useful to record a snapshot of the current principles of the Internet architecture. This is intended for general guidance and general interest, and is in no way intended to be a formal or invariant reference model. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

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Document ID
RFC1958
Published
June 1996
Authors
B. Carpenter
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
IAB
Area
—
Pages
8
Also known as
—
Updated by:
RFC 3439

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