Exterior Gateway Protocol implementation schedule
RFC 890, “Exterior Gateway Protocol implementation schedule”, is an Unknown document published in February 1984 by J. Postel. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This memo is a policy statement on the implementation of the Exterior Gateway Protocol in the Internet. This is an official policy statement of ICCB and DARPA. After 1-Aug-84 there shall be no dumb gateways in the Internet. Every gateway must be a member of some autonomous system. Some gateway of each autonomous system must exchange routing information with some gateway of the core autonomous system using the Exterior Gateway Protocol.
What “Unknown” means
The standards-track status of this early RFC was never formally classified.
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- RFC 888 "STUB" Exterior Gateway Protocol
- RFC 893 Trailer encapsulations
- RFC 894 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams over Ethernet Networks
- RFC 895 Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams over experimental Ethernet networks
- RFC 896 Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks
- RFC 897 Domain name system implementation schedule
- RFC 898 Gateway special interest group meeting notes
- RFC 899 Request For Comments summary notes: 800-899