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        RFC 1812:

        Title:      Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers
        Author:     F. Baker, Editor
        Date:       June 1995
        Mailbox:    fred@cisco.com
        Pages:      175
        Characters: 415,740
        Obsoletes:  1716, 1009

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1812.txt


This document is an updated version of RFC 1716, the historical Router
Requirements document.  That RFC preserved the significant work that
went into the working group, but failed to adequately describe current
technology for the IESG to consider it a current standard.  The
current editor had been asked to bring the document up to date, so
that it is useful as a procurement specification and a guide to
implementors.  In this, he stands squarely on the shoulders of those
who have gone before him, and depends largely on expert contributors
for text.  Any credit is theirs; the errors are his.  The content and
form of this document are due, in large part, to the working group's
chair, and document's original editor and author: Philip Almquist.  It
is also largely due to the efforts of its previous editor, Frank
Kastenholz.  Without their efforts, this document would not exist.
This RFC is a product of the Router Requirements Working Group of the
IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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