numbers PROTOCOL

PROTOCOL NUMBERS

(last updated 2008-01-15)

Registries included below:
- Assigned Internet Protocol Numbers

Registry Name: Assigned Internet Protocol Numbers
Reference: [RFC-arkko-rfc2780-proto-update-02.txt]
Registration Procedures: IESG Approval or Standards Action
Note: In the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) [RFC791] there is a field
called "Protocol" to identify the next level protocol.  This is an 8
bit field.  In Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) [RFC1883], this field
is called the "Next Header" field.

Registry:
Decimal    Keyword     Protocol                                 References
---------  ----------  ---------------------------------------  ----------
    0     HOPOPT      IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Option                   [RFC1883]
    1     ICMP        Internet Control Message                 [RFC792]
    2     IGMP        Internet Group Management                [RFC1112]
    3     GGP         Gateway-to-Gateway                       [RFC823]
    4     IP          IP in IP (encapsulation)                 [RFC2003]
    5     ST          Stream                                   [RFC1190][RFC1819]
    6     TCP         Transmission Control                     [RFC793]
    7     CBT         CBT                                      [Ballardie]
    8     EGP         Exterior Gateway Protocol                [RFC888][DLM1]
    9     IGP         any private interior gateway             [IANA]
                      (used by Cisco for their IGRP) 
   10     BBN-RCC-MON BBN RCC Monitoring                       [SGC]
   11     NVP-II      Network Voice Protocol                   [RFC741,SC3]
   12     PUP         PUP                                      [PUP,XEROX]
   13     ARGUS       ARGUS                                    [RWS4]
   14     EMCON       EMCON                                    [BN7]
   15     XNET        Cross Net Debugger                       [IEN158,JFH2]
   16     CHAOS       Chaos                                    [NC3]
   17     UDP         User Datagram                            [RFC768,JBP]
   18     MUX         Multiplexing                             [IEN90,JBP]
   19     DCN-MEAS    DCN Measurement Subsystems               [DLM1]
   20     HMP         Host Monitoring                          [RFC869,RH6]
   21     PRM         Packet Radio Measurement                 [ZSU]
   22     XNS-IDP     XEROX NS IDP                             [ETHERNET,XEROX]
   23     TRUNK-1     Trunk-1                                  [BWB6]
   24     TRUNK-2     Trunk-2                                  [BWB6]
   25     LEAF-1      Leaf-1                                   [BWB6]
   26     LEAF-2      Leaf-2                                   [BWB6]
   27     RDP         Reliable Data Protocol                   [RFC908,RH6]
   28     IRTP        Internet Reliable Transaction            [RFC938,TXM]
   29     ISO-TP4     ISO Transport Protocol Class 4           [RFC905,RC77]
   30     NETBLT      Bulk Data Transfer Protocol              [RFC969,DDC1]
   31     MFE-NSP     MFE Network Services Protocol            [MFENET,BCH2]
   32     MERIT-INP   MERIT Internodal Protocol                [HWB]
   33     DCCP        Datagram Congestion Control Protocol     [RFC4340]
   34     3PC         Third Party Connect Protocol             [SAF3]
   35     IDPR        Inter-Domain Policy Routing Protocol     [MXS1]
   36     XTP         XTP                                      [GXC]
   37     DDP         Datagram Delivery Protocol               [WXC]
   38     IDPR-CMTP   IDPR Control Message Transport Proto     [MXS1]
   39     TP++        TP++ Transport Protocol                  [DXF]
   40     IL          IL Transport Protocol                    [Presotto]
   41     IPv6        Ipv6                                     [Deering]   
   42     SDRP        Source Demand Routing Protocol           [DXE1]
   43     IPv6-Route  Routing Header for IPv6                  [Deering]
   44     IPv6-Frag   Fragment Header for IPv6                 [Deering]
   45     IDRP        Inter-Domain Routing Protocol            [Sue Hares]
   46     RSVP        Reservation Protocol                     [Bob Braden]
   47     GRE         General Routing Encapsulation            [Tony Li]
   48     DSR         Dynamic Source Routing Protocol          [RFC4728]
   49     BNA         BNA                                      [Gary Salamon]
   50     ESP         Encap Security Payload                   [RFC2406]
   51     AH          Authentication Header                    [RFC2402]
   52     I-NLSP      Integrated Net Layer Security  TUBA      [GLENN]
   53     SWIPE       IP with Encryption                       [JI6]
   54     NARP        NBMA Address Resolution Protocol         [RFC1735]
   55     MOBILE      IP Mobility                              [Perkins]
   56     TLSP        Transport Layer Security Protocol        [Oberg]
                      using Kryptonet key management
   57     SKIP        SKIP                                     [Markson]
   58     IPv6-ICMP   ICMP for IPv6                            [RFC1883]
   59     IPv6-NoNxt  No Next Header for IPv6                  [RFC1883]
   60     IPv6-Opts   Destination Options for IPv6             [RFC1883]
   61                 any host internal protocol               [IANA]
   62     CFTP        CFTP                                     [CFTP,HCF2]
   63                 any local network                        [IANA]
   64     SAT-EXPAK   SATNET and Backroom EXPAK                [SHB]
   65     KRYPTOLAN   Kryptolan                                [PXL1]
   66     RVD         MIT Remote Virtual Disk Protocol         [MBG]
   67     IPPC        Internet Pluribus Packet Core            [SHB]
   68                 any distributed file system              [IANA]
   69     SAT-MON     SATNET Monitoring                        [SHB]
   70     VISA        VISA Protocol                            [GXT1]
   71     IPCV        Internet Packet Core Utility             [SHB]
   72     CPNX        Computer Protocol Network Executive      [DXM2]
   73     CPHB        Computer Protocol Heart Beat             [DXM2]
   74     WSN         Wang Span Network                        [VXD]
   75     PVP         Packet Video Protocol                    [SC3]
   76     BR-SAT-MON  Backroom SATNET Monitoring               [SHB]
   77     SUN-ND      SUN ND PROTOCOL-Temporary                [WM3]
   78     WB-MON      WIDEBAND Monitoring                      [SHB]
   79     WB-EXPAK    WIDEBAND EXPAK                           [SHB]
   80     ISO-IP      ISO Internet Protocol                    [MTR]
   81     VMTP        VMTP                                     [DRC3]
   82     SECURE-VMTP SECURE-VMTP                              [DRC3]
   83     VINES       VINES                                    [BXH]
   84     TTP         TTP                                      [JXS]
   85     NSFNET-IGP  NSFNET-IGP                               [HWB]
   86     DGP         Dissimilar Gateway Protocol              [DGP,ML109]
   87     TCF         TCF                                      [GAL5]
   88     EIGRP       EIGRP                                    [CISCO,GXS]
   89     OSPFIGP     OSPFIGP                                  [RFC1583,JTM4]
   90     Sprite-RPC  Sprite RPC Protocol                      [SPRITE,BXW]
   91     LARP        Locus Address Resolution Protocol        [BXH]
   92     MTP         Multicast Transport Protocol             [SXA]
   93     AX.25       AX.25 Frames                             [BK29]        
   94     IPIP        IP-within-IP Encapsulation Protocol      [JI6]
   95     MICP        Mobile Internetworking Control Pro.      [JI6]
   96     SCC-SP      Semaphore Communications Sec. Pro.       [HXH]    
   97     ETHERIP     Ethernet-within-IP Encapsulation         [RFC3378]
   98     ENCAP       Encapsulation Header                     [RFC1241,RXB3]
   99                 any private encryption scheme            [IANA]
  100     GMTP        GMTP                                     [RXB5]
  101     IFMP        Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol         [Hinden]
  102     PNNI        PNNI over IP                             [Callon]
  103     PIM         Protocol Independent Multicast           [Farinacci]
  104     ARIS        ARIS                                     [Feldman]
  105     SCPS        SCPS                                     [Durst]
  106     QNX         QNX                                      [Hunter]
  107     A/N         Active Networks                          [Braden]
  108     IPComp      IP Payload Compression Protocol          [RFC2393]
  109     SNP         Sitara Networks Protocol                 [Sridhar]
  110     Compaq-Peer Compaq Peer Protocol                     [Volpe]
  111     IPX-in-IP   IPX in IP                                [Lee]
  112     VRRP        Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol       [RFC3768]
  113     PGM         PGM Reliable Transport Protocol          [Speakman]
  114                 any 0-hop protocol                       [IANA]
  115     L2TP        Layer Two Tunneling Protocol             [Aboba]
  116     DDX         D-II Data Exchange (DDX)                 [Worley]
  117     IATP        Interactive Agent Transfer Protocol      [Murphy]
  118     STP         Schedule Transfer Protocol               [JMP]
  119     SRP         SpectraLink Radio Protocol               [Hamilton]
  120     UTI         UTI                                      [Lothberg]
  121     SMP         Simple Message Protocol                  [Ekblad]
  122     SM          SM                                       [Crowcroft]
  123     PTP         Performance Transparency Protocol        [Welzl]
  124     ISIS over IPv4                                       [Przygienda]
  125     FIRE                                                 [Partridge]
  126     CRTP        Combat Radio Transport Protocol          [Sautter]
  127     CRUDP       Combat Radio User Datagram               [Sautter]
  128     SSCOPMCE                                             [Waber]
  129     IPLT                                                 [Hollbach]
  130     SPS         Secure Packet Shield                     [McIntosh]
  131     PIPE        Private IP Encapsulation within IP       [Petri]
  132     SCTP        Stream Control Transmission Protocol     [Stewart]
  133     FC          Fibre Channel                            [Rajagopal]
  134     RSVP-E2E-IGNORE                                      [RFC3175]
  135     Mobility Header                                      [RFC3775]
  136     UDPLite                                              [RFC3828]
  137     MPLS-in-IP                                           [RFC4023]
  138     manet       MANET Protocols                          [RFC-ietf-manet-iana-07.txt]
  139     HIP         Host Identity Protocol                   [RFC-ietf-hip-base-10.txt]    
  140-252 Unassigned                                           [IANA]
  253     Use for experimentation and testing                  [RFC3692]
  254     Use for experimentation and testing                  [RFC3692]
  255                 Reserved                                 [IANA]


REFERENCES
----------
[CFTP]      Forsdick, H., "CFTP", Network Message, Bolt Beranek and
           Newman, January 1982.

[CISCO]     Cisco Systems, "Gateway Server Reference Manual", Manual
           Revision B, January 10, 1988.

[DDN]       Feinler, E., Editor, "DDN Protocol Handbook", Network
           Information Center, SRI International, December 1985.

[DGP]       M/A-COM Government Systems, "Dissimilar Gateway Protocol
           Specification, Draft Version", Contract no. CS901145,
           November 16, 1987.

[ETHERNET]  "The Ethernet, A Local Area Network: Data Link Layer and
           Physical Layer Specification", AA-K759B-TK, Digital
           Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA.  Also as: "The
           Ethernet - A Local Area Network", Version 1.0, Digital
           Equipment Corporation, Intel Corporation, Xerox
           Corporation, September 1980.  And: "The Ethernet, A Local
           Area Network: Data Link Layer and Physical Layer
           Specifications", Digital, Intel and Xerox, November 1982.
           And: XEROX, "The Ethernet, A Local Area Network: Data Link
           Layer and Physical Layer Specification", X3T51/80-50,
           Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT., October 1980.

[IEN90]    Cohen, D. and J. Postel, "Multiplexing Protocol", IEN 90,
          USC/Information Sciences Institute, May 1979.

[IEN119]   Forgie, J., "ST - A Proposed Internet Stream Protocol",
          IEN 119, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, September 1979.

[IEN158]   Haverty, J., "XNET Formats for Internet Protocol Version 4",
          IEN 158, October 1980.

[MFENET]   Shuttleworth, B., "A Documentary of MFENet, a National
          Computer Network", UCRL-52317, Lawrence Livermore Labs,
          Livermore, California, June 1977.

[PUP]      Boggs, D., J. Shoch, E. Taft, and R. Metcalfe, "PUP: An
          Internetwork Architecture", XEROX Palo Alto Research Center,
          CSL-79-10, July 1979; also in IEEE Transactions on
          Communication, Volume COM-28, Number 4, April 1980.

[SPRITE]   Welch, B., "The Sprite Remote Procedure Call System",
          Technical Report, UCB/Computer Science Dept., 86/302,
          University of California at Berkeley, June 1986.

[RFC741]   Cohen, D., "Specifications for the Network Voice Protocol",
          RFC 741, ISI/RR 7539, USC/Information Sciences Institute,
          March 1976.

[RFC768]   Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
          USC/Information Sciences Institute, August 1980.

[RFC791]   Postel, J., "Internet Protocol - DARPA Internet Prnogram
          Protocol Specification", STD 5, RFC 791, DARPA, September
          1981.

[RFC792]   Postel, J., "Internet Control Message Protocol - DARPA
          Internet Program Protocol Specification", STD 5, RFC 792,
          USC/Information Sciences Institute, September 1981.

[RFC793]   Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol - DARPA
          Internet Program Protocol Specification", STD 7, RFC 793,
          USC/Information Sciences Institute, September 1981.

[RFC823]   Hinden, R., and A. Sheltzer, "The DARPA Internet Gateway",
          RFC 823, BBN, September 1982.

[RFC869]   Hinden, R., "A Host Monitoring Protocol", RFC 869,
          Bolt Beranek and Newman, December 1983.

[RFC888]   Seamonson, L., and E. Rosen, "STUB" Exterior Gateway
          Protocol", RFC 888, BBN Communications Corporation,
          January 1984.

[RFC905]   International Standards Organization, "ISO Transport Protocol
          Specification - ISO DP 8073", RFC 905, April 1984.

[RFC908]   Velten, D., R. Hinden, and J. Sax, "Reliable Data Protocol",
          RFC 908, BBN Communications Corporation, July 1984.

[RFC938]   Miller, T., "Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol", RFC 938,
          ACC, February 1985.

[RFC969]   Clark, D., M. Lambert, and L. Zhang, "NETBLT: A Bulk Data
          Transfer Protocol", RFC 969, MIT Laboratory for Computer
          Science, December 1985.

[RFC1112]  Deering, S., "Host Extensions for IP Multicasting",
          STD 5, RFC 1112, Stanford University, August 1989.

[RFC1190]  Topolcic, C., Editor, "Experimental Internet Stream
          Protocol, Version 2 (ST-II)", RFC 1190, CIP Working Group,
          October 1990.

[RFC1241]  Woodburn, W., and D. Mills, " A Scheme for an Internet
          Encapsulation Protocol: Version 1", RFC 1241, SAIC,
          University of Delaware, July 1991.

[RFC1583]  Moy, J., "The OSPF Specification", RFC 1583, Proteon,
          March 1994.

[RFC1735]  Heinanen, J., and R. Govindan, " NBMA Address Resolution
          Protocol (NARP)", RFC 1735, Telecom Finland and USC/ISI,
          December 1994.

[RFC1819]  L. Delgrossi, L. Berger, and ST2 Working Group, "Internet
          Stream Protocol Version 2 (ST2) Protocol Specification
          - Version ST2+", RFC 1819, August 1995.

[RFC1883]  Deering, S., and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
          (IPv6) Specification", RFC 1883, Xerox PARC, Ipsilon
          Networks, December 1995.

[RFC2003]  Perkins, C., "IP Encapsulation within IP", RFC 2003, IBM,
          September 1996.

[RFC2393]  Shacham, A., and R. Monsour, R. Pereira, M. Thomas, "IP
          Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp)", RFC 2393, Cisco,
          Hi/fn, TimeStep, AltaVista Internt, December 1998.

[RFC2402]  S. Kent and R. Atkinson, "IP Authentication Header",
          RFC 2402, November 1998.

[RFC2406]  S. Kent and R. Atkinson, "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)",
          RFC 2406, November 1998.

[RFC3175]  F. Baker, C. Iturralde, F. Le Faucheur, B. Davie,
          "Aggregation of RSVP for IPv4 and IPv6 Reservations",
          RFC 3175, September 2001.

[RFC3378]  R. Housley and S. Hollenbeck, "EtherIP: Tunneling Ethernet
          Frames in IP Datagrams", RFC 3378, September 2002.

[RFC3692]  T. Narten, "Assigning Experimental and Testing Numbers Considered
          Useful", RFC 3692, January 2004.

[RFC3768]  R. Hinden, Ed., "Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)",
          RFC 3768, April 2004.

[RFC3775]   D. Johnson, C. Perkins, and J. Arkko, "Mobility Support in IPv6",
           RFC 3775, June 2004.

[RFC3828]  L-A. Larzon, M. Degermark, S. Pink, L-E. Jonsson Ed., and
          G. Fairhurst, Ed., "The UDP-Lite Protocol", RFC 3828, July 2004.

[RFC4023]  T. Worster, Y. Rekhter, and E. Rosen, Ed., "Encapsulating MPLS in
          IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)", RFC 4023, March 2005.

[RFC4340]  E. Kohler, M. Handley and S. Floyd, "Datagram Congestion
          Control Protocol (DCCP)", RFC 4340, March 2006.

[RFC4728]  D.B. Johnson, D.A. Maltz and Y-C. Hu, "The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol
          for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (DSR)", RFC 4728, February 2007.

[RFC-ietf-manet-iana-07.txt]
          I. Chakeres, "IANA Allocations for MANET Protocols", RFC XXXX,
          Month Year.

[RFC-ietf-hip-base-10.txt]
          R. Moskowitz, P. Nikander, P. Jokela, Ed., T. Henderson, "Host Identity
          Protocol", RFC XXXX, Month Year.

[RFC-arkko-rfc2780-proto-update-02.txt]
          J. Arkko, S. Bradner, "IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field",
          RFC XXXX, Month Year.

PEOPLE
------
[Aboba] Bernard Aboba , April 1998.

[Ballardie] Tony Ballardie 

[BCH2] Barry Howard  

[BK29] Brian Kantor  

[BN7] 

[Braden] Bob Braden, , July 1997.

[BWB6] Barry Boehm  

[BXH] Brian Horn  <---none--->

[BXW] Bruce Willins <---none--->

[Callon] Ross Callon, , December 1995.

[Carpenter] Brian Carpenter, , January 1995.

[Crowcroft] Jon Crowcroft , June 1999.

[DDC1] David Clark  

[DLM1] David Mills  

[DRC3] Dave Cheriton  

[Deering] Steve Deering, , March 1995.

[Doraswamy] Naganand Doraswamy, , September 1997.

[Durst] Robert Durst, , March 1997.

[DXE1] Deborah Estrin  

[Farinacci] Dino Farinacci, , March 1996.

[Feldman] Nancy Feldman  January 1997.

[DXF] Dirk Fromhein  

[DXM2] David Mittnacht  <---none--->

[Ekblad] Leif Ekblad , March 1999.

[GAL5] Guillermo A. Loyola  

[GLENN]  K. Robert Glenn  

[GXC] Greg Chesson  

[GXS] Guenther Schreiner  

[GXT1] Gene Tsudik  

[Hamilton] Mark Hamilton , November 1998.

[HCF2] Harry Forsdick  

[Hinden] Bob Hinden, , November 1995, 1997.

[Hunter] Michael Hunter, , July 1997.

[HWB] Hans-Werner Braun  

[HXH] Howard Hart  

[IANA] Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, , June 1995.

[JBP]   Jon Postel 

[JMP] Jean-Michel Pittet, , November 1998.

[JC120] 

[JFH2] Jack Haverty 

[JI6] John Ioannidis  

[JTM4] John Moy  

[JWF] Jim Forgie  

[JXS] Jim Stevens  

[KATZ]  Dave Katz 

[Lee] CJ Lee, , October 1997.

[Lothberg] Peter Lothberg , March 1999.

[Markson] Tom Markson, , September 1995.

[MB] Mike Brescia  

[MBG] Michael Greenwald  

[McIntosh] Bill McIntosh 

[ML109] Mike Little  

[MTR] Marshall T. Rose  

[Murphy] John Murphy , October 1998.

[MXS1] Martha Steenstrup  

[NC3] J. Noel Chiappa  

[Oberg] Christer Oberg  October 1994.

[Partridge] Criag Partridge , August 1999.

[Perkins] Charlie Perkins , October 1994.

[Petri] Bernhard Petri , March 2000.

[Presotto] Dave Presotto  , July 1995.

[Przygienda] Tony Przygienda , August 1999.

[PXL1] Paul Liu  <---none--->

[Rajagopal] Murali Rajagopal, , May 2000.

[RH6] Robert Hinden  

[RTB3]  Bob Braden 

[RC77] 

[RDH1] Russ Housley  

[RWS4] Robert W. Scheifler  

[RXB3] Robert Woodburn 

[Sautter] Robert Sautter , August 1999.

[SAF3] Stuart A. Friedberg  

[SC3] Steve Casner  
[SGC] Steve Chipman  Chipman&F.BBN.COM>

[SHB] Steven Blumenthal  

[Speakman] Tony Speakman , January 1998.

[Sridhar] Manickam R.Sridhar , September 1997.

[Stewart] Randall R. Stewart , April 2000.

[Sue Hares]  Sue Hares 

[SXA] Susie Armstrong  

[SXD] Steve Deering  

[Tony Li] Tony Li  

[TXM] Trudy Miller  

[Volpe] Victor Volpe , October 1997.

[VXD] Victor Dafoulas  <---none--->

[Waber] Kurt Waber , August 1999.

[Welzl] Michael Welzl  , August 1999.

[WM3] William Melohn  

[WXC] Wesley Craig   

[Worley] John Worley , June 1998.

[ZSU] Zaw-Sing Su  

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