Internet-Draft S. Ginoza
Category: Informational AMS
August 2013
List of Internet Official Protocol Standards:
Replaced by an Online Database
draft-rfced-rfcxx00-retired-04
Abstract
At one time, the RFC Editor published periodic snapshots of the
"Internet Official Protocol Standards". These documents were known
as xx00 documents, the most of which was published in May 2008. This
document notes that the RFC Editor will no longer be publishing these
snapshots as RFCs.
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1. Introduction
[RFC1083], published in December 1988, was the first document
published in the RFC series that detailed a "list of documents that
define the standards for the Internet protocol suite" and any ongoing
experiments. Snapshots were published on a periodic basis.
[RFC1280] was the first of these publications to be published as STD
1. Starting with [RFC2200], RFC numbers ending with 00 were reserved
for snapshots of the Official Protocol Standards. [RFC5000],
published in May 2008, was the last snapshot documented in an RFC.
This document notes that the RFC Editor will no longer continue this
tradition, and that RFC numbers typically reserved for these
documents (i.e., those numbers ending with 00) will be available for
assignment to other RFCs-to-be.
2. Online List of Official Internet Protocol Standards
Previously, publishing a snapshot of the current list of Standards
Track and Experimental documents was helpful to the Internet
community, as the information was not available otherwise. However,
in 2000, the RFC Editor produced an online list that is dynamically
updated and available to individuals with access to the public
Internet [STDS-TRK]. As the list has been online for over 10 years,
it is time to make the online list more official.
3. STD 1
In some sense, STD 1 was retired when RFC 5000 was published. After
consultation with the IAB, RFC 5000 was published as an Informational
document, but was still identified as STD 1 in the document header.
The status was listed as Informational, as the document does not
describe an implementable Standard. However, it was associated with
STD 1 to keep the document consistent with its historic connection to
the subseries identifier.
Because the online list has obsoleted the xx00 publications in
practice, the IESG has decided to pursue moving RFC 5000 and STD 1 to
Historic [RETIRE-STD1]. Marking STD 1 as Historic would result in
identifier STD 1 not being available for future use.
4. Cleaning Up RFC Editor Data
As part of the cleanup related to ending the publication of the
Official Protocol Standards, the RFC Editor will mark a number of
unused numbers ending in 00 through RFC 7000 "never issued". Moving
forward, other numbers typically reserved for these documents (i.e.,
those numbers ending with 00) will be assigned to future RFCs-to-be.
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5. IANA Considerations
This document does not request any IANA actions.
6. Security Considerations
This document does not impact the security of the Internet.
7. Informative References
[RETIRE-STD1] Resnick, P., "Retirement of the "Internet Official
Protocol Standards" Summary Document", Work in
Progress, August 2013.
[RFC1083] Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Internet
Activities Board, "IAB official protocol standards",
RFC 1083, December 1988.
[RFC1280] Postel, J., "IAB Official Protocol Standards", RFC
1280, March 1992.
[RFC2200] Postel, J., "Internet Official Protocol Standards", RFC
2200, June 1997.
[RFC5000] RFC Editor, "Internet Official Protocol Standards", STD
1, RFC 5000, May 2008.
[STDS-TRK] RFC Editor, "Official Internet Protocol Standards",
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html>.
8. Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Nevil Brownlee, Brian Carpenter, Heather
Flanagan, and Alice Russo for their review and input on this
document. We would also like to thank Bob Braden for his efforts in
writing the scripts that produce the "Official Internet Protocol
Standards" page <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html>.
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Author's Address
Sandy Ginoza
Association Management Solutions
48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
United States
Phone: +1 (510) 492-4000
EMail: sginoza@amsl.com
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