RFC 6918: Formally Deprecating Some ICMPv4 Message Types

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A number of ICMPv4 message types have become obsolete in practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such ICMPv4 message types, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry. Additionally, it updates RFC 792 and RFC 950, obsoletes RFC 1788, and requests the RFC Editor to change the status of RFC 1788 to Historic.

Document record

Document ID

RFC6918

Published

April 2013

Authors

F. Gont; C. Pignataro

Status

PROPOSED STANDARD

Stream

IETF

Area

—

Pages

8

Also known as

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Obsoletes:

RFC 1788

Updates:

RFC 792, RFC 950

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• DOI: 10.17487/RFC6918

Topics

• IANA
• IPv4 Options

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