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        BCP 37
        RFC 2780

        Title:      IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the
                    Internet Protocol and Related Headers
        Author(s):  S. Bradner, V. Paxson
        Status:     Best Current Practice
        Date:       March 2000
        Mailbox:    sob@harvard.edu, vern@aciri.org
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 18954
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
        I-D Tag:    draft-bradner-iana-allocation-05.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2780.txt


This memo provides guidance for the IANA to use in assigning
parameters for fields in the IPv4, IPv6, ICMP, UDP and TCP protocol
headers.

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