IETF Documents

The following documents provide standards relevant to IP Telephony and are available for free from the IETF Web site: http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html.

• Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers, October 1989, by R. Braden
  (STD 3: RFC 1122)
• Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support, October 1989, by R. Braden
  (STD 3: RFC 1123)
• Internet Protocol (IP), September 1981, by Information Sciences Institute (STD 5: RFC 791), as amended by Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure, August 1985, by J. Mogul and J. Postel (STD 5: RFC 950)
• Broadcasting Internet Datagrams, October 1984, by J. Mogul (STD 5: RFC 919)
• Broadcasting Internet Datagrams in the Presence of Subnets, October 1984, by J. Mogul
  (STD 5: RFC 922)
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP), August 28, 1980, by J. Postel (STD 6: RFC 768)
• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), September 1981, by Information Sciences Institute
  (STD 7: RFC 793)
• Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities (DNS), November, 1987, by P. Mockapetris
  (STD 13: RFC 1034)
• Domain Names - Implementation and Specification (DNS), November 1987, by P. Mockapetris (STD 13: RFC 1035)
• The TFTP Protocol (Revision 2), (TFTP), July 1992, by K. Sollins, (STD 33: RFC 1350:) as updated by TFTP Option Extension, May 1998, by G. Malkin and A. Harkin (RFC 2347)
• An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), November 1982, by David C. Plummer
  (STD 37: RFC 826)
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), March 1997, by R. Droms (RFC 2131)
• DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor Extensions, March 1997, by S. Alexander and R. Droms (RFC 2132)
• RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications (RTP/RTCP), January 1996, by H. Schulzrinne, S. Casner, R. Frederick, V. Jacobson (RFC 1889)
• Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers, (DIFFSRV), December 1998, by K. Nichols, S. Blake, F. Baker and D. Black (RFC 2474)
• Introduction to version 2 of the Internet-standard Network Management Framework (SNMPv2), April 1993, by J. Case, K. McCloghrie, M. Rose, and S. Waldbusser (RFC 1441)
• Management Information Base for Network Management of TCP/IP Internets: MIB-II, March 1991, edited by K. McCloghrie and M. Rose (RFC 1213)
• SNMPv2 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol using SMIv2, November 1996, edited by K. McCloghrie (RFC 2011)
• Structure of Management Information Version 2 (SMIv2), April 1999, edited by K. McCloghrie, D. Perkins, and J. Schoenwaelder (RFC 2578)
• Resource ReSerVation Protocol VI, September 1997, by R. Braden, L. Zhang, S. Berson, S. Herzog, and S. Jamin (RFC 2205)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, March 1995, by M. Wahl, T. Howes, and S. Kille
  (RFC 1777)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3), December 1997, by M. Wahl, T. Howes, and S. Kille (RFC 2251)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions, December 1997, by M. Wahl, Coulbeck, T. Howes, and S. Kitte (RFC 2252)
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names, December 1997, by M. Wahl, S. Kille, and T. Howes (RFC 2253)
• The TLS Protocol Version 1.0, January 1999, by T. Dierks and C. Allen (RFC 2246)
• SDP: Session Description Protocol, April 1998, by M. Handley and V. Jacobsen (RFC 2327)
• RTP Payload for DTMF Digits, Telephony Tones and Telephony Signals, May 2000, by H. Schulzrinne and S. Petrack (RFC 2833)
• SIP: Session Initiation Protocol, June 2002, by J. Rosenberg et. al. (RFC 3261)
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP): Locating SIP Servers, June 2002, by J. Rosenberg and H. Schulzrinne (RFC 3263)
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) - Specific Event Notification, June 2002, by A.B. Roach (RFC 3265)
• The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Refer Method, April 2003, by R. Sparks (RFC 3515)
• A Message Summary and Message Waiting Indication Event Package for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), August 2004, by R. Mahy (RFC 3842)