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BCP 165
RFC 7605
Title: Recommendations on Using Assigned Transport
Port Numbers
Author: J. Touch
Status: Best Current Practice
Stream: IETF
Date: August 2015
Mailbox: touch@isi.edu
Pages: 24
Characters: 58012
See Also: BCP 165
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-tsvwg-port-use-11.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7605
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7605
This document provides recommendations to designers of application and
service protocols on how to use the transport protocol port number
space and when to request a port assignment from IANA. It provides
designer guidance to requesters or users of port numbers on how to
interact with IANA using the processes defined in RFC 6335; thus, this
document complements (but does not update) that document. It provides
guidelines for designers regarding how to interact with the IANA processes
defined in RFC 6335, thus serving to complement (but not update) that
document.
This document is a product of the Transport Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
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