RFC 1811 · INFORMATIONAL · 1995
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
U.S
Overview
RFC 1811, “U.S”, is an Informational document published in June 1995 by Federal Networking Council. It has been obsoleted by RFC 1816 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes the registration policies for the top-level domain ".GOV". This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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Relationships to other RFCs
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- RFC 1812 Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
- RFC 1809 Using the Flow Label Field in IPv6
- RFC 1813 NFS Version 3 Protocol Specification
- RFC 1808 Relative Uniform Resource Locators
- RFC 1814 Unique Addresses are Good
- RFC 1807 A Format for Bibliographic Records
- RFC 1815 Character Sets ISO-10646 and ISO-10646-J-1