The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Formally Deprecating some IPv4 Options' (draft-gp-intarea-obsolete-ipv4-options-iana-02.txt) as Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Ronald Bonica. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gp-intarea-obsolete-ipv4-options-iana/ Technical Summary A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4 options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry, and serving as a basis for providing advice about the filtering of packets containing these options. Additionally, it requests that the status of the corresponding RFCs be changed to "Historic". Working Group Summary This document was not produced by any WG. Document Quality This document document is largely administrative. It formally deprecates several IPv4 options that have long ago become obsolete in practice. Personnel Scott Bradner is document shepherd. Ron Bonica is responsible AD RFC Editor Note OLD> A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4 options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry, and serving as a basis for providing advice about the filtering of packets containing these options. Additionally, it requests that the status of the corresponding RFCs be changed to "Historic". <OLD NEW> A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4 options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry, and serving as a basis for providing advice about the filtering of packets containing these options. Additionally, it requests that the status of the corresponding RFCs be changed to "Historic". It also obsoletes RFC 1385,RFC 1393, RFC 1475 and RFC 1770. <NEW OLD> A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4 options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry, and serving as a basis for providing advice about the filtering of packets containing these options. Additionally, it requests that the status of the corresponding RFCs be changed to "Historic". <OLD NEW> A number of IPv4 options have become obsolete in practice, but have never been formally deprecated. This document deprecates such IPv4 options, thus cleaning up the corresponding IANA registry. Additionally, it requests that the status of the corresponding RFCs be changed to "Historic". <NEW OLD> This document does not modify the security properties of the IPv4 Options being deprecated. However, formally deprecating these options serves as a basis for e.g. providing advice about filtering packets containing these options (as in [I-D.ietf-opsec-ip-options-filtering]). <OLD NEW> This document does not modify the security properties of the IPv4 Options being deprecated. <NEW OLD> [I-D.ietf-opsec-ip-options-filtering] Gont, F., Atkinson, R., and C. Pignataro, "Recommendations on filtering of IPv4 packets containing IPv4 options", draft-ietf-opsec-ip-options-filtering-00 (work in progress), June 2012. <OLD NEW> <NEW OLD> The Address Extension option is defined in the Experimental [RFC1475], and marked as IPv7. <OLD NEW> The Address Extension option is defined in the Experimental [RFC1475], and marked as IPv7. IPv7 was never widely deployed. <NEW OLD> The Selective Directed Broadcast option is originally defined in [RFC1770]. OLD< NEW> The Selective Directed Broadcast option was originally defined in RFC [RFC1770]. This option was never widely deployed and the approach was abandoned. <NEW OLD> The Dynamic Packet State option was specified in [I-D.stoica-diffserv-dps]. The aforementioned document was meant to be published as "Experimental", but never became an RFC. <OLD NEW> The Dynamic Packet State option was specified in [I-D.stoica-diffserv-dps]. The aforementioned document was meant to be published as "Experimental", but never became an RFC. The IP option was never widely deployed. <NEW Also, please move the references to RFCs 1191, 1393, and 1812 from Section 7.1 (Normative References) to Section 7.2 (Informative References)
