Independent Submissions to the RFC Editor
RFC 4846
| Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(July 2007; No errata)
Updated by RFC 5744
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| Last updated | 2013-03-02 | ||
| Stream | IAB | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Stream | IAB state | (None) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| RFC Editor Note | (None) | ||
Network Working Group J. Klensin, Ed.
Request for Comments: 4846 D. Thaler, Ed.
Category: Informational July 2007
Independent Submissions to the RFC Editor
Status of This Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007).
Abstract
There is a long-standing tradition in the Internet community,
predating the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) by many years,
of use of the RFC Series to publish materials that are not rooted in
the IETF standards process and its review and approval mechanisms.
These documents, known as "Independent Submissions", serve a number
of important functions for the Internet community, both inside and
outside of the community of active IETF participants. This document
discusses the Independent Submission model and some reasons why it is
important. It then describes editorial and processing norms that can
be used for Independent Submissions as the community goes forward
into new relationships between the IETF community and its primary
technical publisher.
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RFC 4846 Independent Submissions July 2007
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Terminology Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Context and Philosophical Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. The Role of Independent Submissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Document Submission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. The Review Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Posting of Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Request for Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3. Initial RFC Editor Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.4. Review and Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.5. Additional Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.6. Document Rejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.7. Final Decision and Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.8. Final Editing and Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Formal IESG Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. The Editorial Review Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. Status and Availability of Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.1. Posted Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.2. Rejected Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.3. Documents Approved for Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8. Intellectual Property Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Appendix A. IAB Members at the Time of Approval . . . . . . . . . 15
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1. Introduction
There is a long-standing tradition in the Internet community,
predating the IETF by many years, of use of the RFC Series to publish
materials that are not rooted in the IETF standards process and its
review and approval mechanisms. These documents, known as
"Independent Submissions", serve a number of important functions for
the Internet community, both inside and outside of the community of
active IETF participants. This document discusses the Independent
Submission model and some reasons why it is important. It then
describes editorial and processing norms that can be used for
Independent Submissions as the community goes forward into new
relationships between the IETF community and its primary technical
publisher.
To understand the perspective of this document, it is important to
remember that the RFC Editor function predates the creation of the
IETF. As of the time of this writing, the RFC Series goes back 38
years [RFC2555], while the IETF is celebrating its 21st anniversary.
All of the documents that were published before the IETF was created,
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