This document contains the technical Profiles of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC) series of documents addressing relevant Application, Transport, Network, Addressing and Naming, Security, Mobility, and Multilink communication functions for the Internet Protocol Suite (IPS). These Profiles specify characteristics that should be useful to designers, installers, manufacturers, service providers and users for IPS systems intended for operational use within the United States National Airspace System (NAS) and the European Air Traffic Management (ATM) networks.

As ATN/IPS is defining a complete network involving avionics and ground systems, there is a need to guidance on the deployment. The document is a set of profiles of existing standards used for the ATN/IPS implementation. Each profile is the minimum set of required (or prohibited) features from a published standard (such as IETF RFCs) agreed by the EUROCAE WG-108 and RTCA SC-223 for global interoperability between IPS systems.

Revision A of ED-262 updates the original IPS Profiles to remove obsolete RFCs, such as IETF RFC 6347 and replaces it with RFC 9147; updates other RFC profiles in accordance with the requirements specified ICAO IPS SARPs, Technical Manuals and MASPS.

Revision A is meant for validation exercises and a subsequent version is expected to become the baseline of the IPS systems development.