RFC - 791

INTERNET PROTOCOL

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc791.txt
Authors:	Jon Postel []
Date:	September 1981
Category:	Standard: STD-5 ]

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Obsoletes:
RFC-760	DoD standard Internet Protocol (Obsoleted by RFC-791std5) (Updated by RFC-777)

Updated by:
RFC-1349	Type of Service in the Internet Protocol Suite (Obsoleted by RFC-2474prop)

Referred by:	344 RFC
Refers to:	4 RFC

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Abstract

This document specifies the DoD Standard Internet Protocol. This document is based on six earlier editions of the ARPA Internet Protocol Specification, and the present text draws heavily from them. There have been many contributors to this work both in terms of concepts and in terms of text. This edition revises aspects of addressing, error handling, option codes, and the security, precedence, compartments, and handling restriction features of the internet protocol.

Jon Postel; Editor

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