From 899edecdbe92f678c3c96572c8877cdbc6763e9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 12:31:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] protocols.5: Update the description of /etc/protocols

The reference to the "DARPA Internet" seems not quite
up to date in 2022, so move that to the HISTORY section.

Mention RFC 2780 and RFC 5237.

Obtained from:	NetBSD
MFC after:	3 days
---
 share/man/man5/protocols.5 | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man5/protocols.5 b/share/man/man5/protocols.5
index 1ccf0ce2be61..16c02c207496 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/protocols.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/protocols.5
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)protocols.5	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 5, 1993
+.Dd December 7, 2020
 .Dt PROTOCOLS 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -37,9 +37,8 @@
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm
-file contains information regarding the known protocols used in the
-.Tn DARPA
-Internet.
+file contains information regarding the assigned protocol numbers
+used by IPv4 and IPv6 to identify the next level protocol.
 For each protocol a single line should be present
 with the following information:
 .Bd -unfilled -offset indent
@@ -67,10 +66,22 @@ file resides in
 .El
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr getprotoent 3
+.Rs
+.%R RFC 2780
+.%D March 2000
+.%T "IANA Allocation Guidelines For Values In the \
+Internet Protocol and Related Headers"
+.Re
+.Rs
+.%R RFC 5237
+.%D February 2008
+.%T "IANA Allocation Guidelines for the Protocol Field"
+.Re
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm
 file format appeared in
-.Bx 4.2 .
+.Bx 4.2 ,
+describing the "known protocols used in the DARPA Internet".
 .Sh BUGS
 A name server should be used instead of a static file.