RFC 6335 - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry

Document Information

• RFC Number: 6335
• Title: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry
• Authors: M. Cotton, L. Eggert, J. Touch, M. Westerlund, S. Cheshire
• Date: August 2011
• Category: Best Current Practice (BCP 165)
• Updates: RFC 2780, 2782, 3828, 4340, 4960, 5595
• ISSN: 2070-1721

Abstract

This document defines the procedures that the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) uses when handling assignment and other requests related to the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number registry. It also discusses the rationale and principles behind these procedures and how they facilitate the long-term sustainability of the registry.

This document updates IANA's procedures by obsoleting the previous UDP and TCP port assignment procedures defined in Sections 8 and 9.1 of the IANA Allocation Guidelines, and it updates the IANA service name and port assignment procedures for UDP-Lite, the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP), and the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). It also updates the DNS SRV specification to clarify what a service name is and how it is registered.

Status of This Memo

This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.

Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6335.

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Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Motivation
• 3. Background
• 4. Conventions Used in This Document
• 5. Service Names
  • 5.1. Service Name Syntax
  • 5.2. Service Name Usage in DNS SRV Records
• 6. Port Number Ranges
  • 6.1. Service Names and Port Numbers for Experimentation
• 7. Principles for Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry Management
  • 7.1. Past Principles
  • 7.2. Updated Principles
• 8. IANA Procedures for Managing the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry
  • 8.1. Service Name and Port Number Assignment
  • 8.2. Service Name and Port Number De-Assignment
  • 8.3. Service Name and Port Number Reuse
  • 8.4. Service Name and Port Number Revocation
  • 8.5. Service Name and Port Number Transfers
  • 8.6. Maintenance Issues
  • 8.7. Disagreements
• 9. Security Considerations
• 10. IANA Considerations
  • 10.1. Service Name Consistency
  • 10.2. Port Numbers for SCTP and DCCP Experimentation
  • 10.3. Updates to DCCP Registries
• 11. Contributors
• 12. Acknowledgments
• 13. References
  • 13.1. Normative References
  • 13.2. Informative References