Subject: Fwd: RFC 8507 on Simple Internet Protocol (SIP) Specification

From: Bob Hinden <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:45:15 -0800

FYI, an important part of the history of IPv6 is now published as an RFC.

Bob

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> From: [email-masked]
> Subject: RFC 8507 on Simple Internet Protocol (SIP) Specification
> Date: December 21, 2018 at 5:17:35 PM PST
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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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>        RFC 8507
> 
>        Title:      Simple Internet Protocol (SIP) Specification
>        Author:     S. Deering,
>                    R. Hinden, Ed.
>        Status:     Historic
>        Stream:     Independent
>        Date:       December 2018
>        Mailbox:    [email-masked]
>        Pages:      26
>        Characters: 56057
>        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
> 
>        I-D Tag:    draft-historic-simple-ip-03.txt
> 
>        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8507
> 
>        DOI:        10.17487/RFC8507
> 
> This document is published for the historical record.  The Simple
> Internet Protocol was the basis for one of the candidates for the
> IETF's Next Generation (IPng) work that became IPv6.
> 
> The publication date of the original Internet-Draft was November 10,
> 1992.  It is presented here substantially unchanged and is neither a
> complete document nor intended to be implementable.
> 
> The paragraph that follows is the Abstract from the original draft.
> 
> This document specifies a new version of IP called SIP, the Simple
> Internet Protocol.  It also describes the changes needed to ICMP,
> IGMP, and transport protocols such as TCP and UDP, in order to work
> with SIP.  A companion document [SIP-ADDR] describes the addressing
> and routing aspects of SIP, including issues of auto-configuration,
> host and subnet mobility, and multicast.
> 
> 
> HISTORIC: This memo defines a Historic Document for the Internet
> community.  It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
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