[rfc-dist] BCP 165, RFC 7605 on Recommendations on Using Assigned Transport Port Numbers

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        BCP 165        
        RFC 7605

        Title:      Recommendations on Using Assigned Transport 
                    Port Numbers 
        Author:     J. Touch
        Status:     Best Current Practice
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       August 2015
        Mailbox:    touch at isi.edu
        Pages:      24
        Characters: 58012
        See Also:   BCP 165

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-tsvwg-port-use-11.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7605

        DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7605

This document provides recommendations to designers of application and
service protocols on how to use the transport protocol port number
space and when to request a port assignment from IANA.  It provides 
designer guidance to requesters or users of port numbers on how to 
interact with IANA using the processes defined in RFC 6335; thus, this 
document complements (but does not update) that document.  It provides 
guidelines for designers regarding how to interact with the IANA processes 
defined in RFC 6335, thus serving to complement (but not update) that 
document.

This document is a product of the Transport Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.


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