[ih] STD 7, RFC 9293 on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

[Toerless Eckert]

I don't think this is the internet-history-working-group mailing list ;-))
aka: sounds like a real research work project, but certainly would have been
interesting to hear a nice historical summary of TCP/IP evolution for the 40 year birthday.

Cheers
   Toerless

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 07:52:23AM -0400, John Day wrote:
> ;-) Interesting point.
> 
> Just out of curiosity.
> 
> Question:  How many RFCs were there between RFC791 and RFC2460 that directly relate to the use of RFC791?
> 
> And
> 
> How many RFCs were there between RFC2460 and RFC8200 that directly relate to the use of RFC2460?
> 
> 
> 
> > On Aug 18, 2022, at 17:22, Toerless Eckert via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Indeed.
> > 
> > Does RFC8200 qualify as an equal amount of improvements from RFC791 ?
> > 
> > ;-) (yes unfair comparison).
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 09:07:20AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> >> I'm thinking this is a big deal, historically:
> >> 
> >> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> >> Subject: STD 7, RFC 9293 on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
> >> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:58:27 -0700 (PDT)
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> >> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> >> 
> >>        STD 7
> >>        RFC 9293
> >> 
> >>        Title:      Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
> >>        Author:     W. Eddy, Ed.
> >>        Status:     Standards Track
> >>        Stream:     IETF
> >>        Date:       August 2022
> >>        Mailbox:    wes at mti-systems.com
> >>        Pages:      98
> >>        Obsoletes:  RFC 793, RFC 879, RFC 2873, RFC 6093,
> >>                    RFC 6429, RFC 6528, RFC 6691
> >>        Updates:    RFC 1011, RFC 1122, RFC 5961
> >>        See Also:   STD 7
> >> 
> >>        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tcpm-rfc793bis-28.txt
> >> 
> >>        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9293
> >> 
> >>        DOI:        10.17487/RFC9293
> >> 
> >> This document specifies the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).  TCP
> >> is an important transport-layer protocol in the Internet protocol
> >> stack, and it has continuously evolved over decades of use and growth
> >> of the Internet.  Over this time, a number of changes have been made
> >> to TCP as it was specified in RFC 793, though these have only been
> >> documented in a piecemeal fashion.  This document collects and brings
> >> those changes together with the protocol specification from RFC 793.
> >> This document obsoletes RFC 793, as well as RFCs 879, 2873, 6093,
> >> 6429, 6528, and 6691 that updated parts of RFC 793.  It updates RFCs
> >> 1011 and 1122, and it should be considered as a replacement for the
> >> portions of those documents dealing with TCP requirements.  It also
> >> updates RFC 5961 by adding a small clarification in reset handling
> >> while in the SYN-RECEIVED state.  The TCP header control bits from
> >> RFC 793 have also been updated based on RFC 3168.
> >> 
> >> This document is a product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group of the IETF.
> >> 
> >> This is now an Internet Standard.
> >> 
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