IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions
RFC 5742
| Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(December 2009; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 3932
Also known as BCP 92
Was draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis (individual in gen area)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
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| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
| Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 5742 (Best Current Practice) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Jari Arkko | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) H. Alvestrand
Request for Comments: 5742 Google
BCP: 92 R. Housley
Obsoletes: 3932 Vigil Security
Updates: 2026, 3710 December 2009
Category: Best Current Practice
ISSN: 2070-1721
IESG Procedures for
Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions
Abstract
This document describes the procedures used by the IESG for handling
documents submitted for RFC publication from the Independent
Submission and IRTF streams.
This document updates procedures described in RFC 2026 and RFC 3710.
Status of This Memo
This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc5742.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
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1. Introduction and History
RFC 4844 [N1] defines four RFC streams. When a document is submitted
for publication, the review that it receives depends on the stream in
which it will be published. The four streams defined in RFC 4844
are:
- The IETF stream
- The IAB stream
- The IRTF stream
- The Independent Submission stream
The IETF is responsible for maintaining the Internet Standards
Process, which includes the requirements for developing, reviewing
and approving Standards Track and BCP RFCs. These RFCs, and any
other IETF-generated Informational or Experimental documents, are
reviewed by appropriate IETF bodies [N2] and published as part of the
IETF stream.
Documents published in streams other than the IETF stream might not
receive any review by the IETF for such things as security,
congestion control, or inappropriate interaction with deployed
protocols. Generally, there is no attempt for IETF consensus or IESG
approval. Therefore, the IETF disclaims, for any of the non-IETF
stream documents, any knowledge of the fitness of those RFCs for any
purpose.
IESG processing described in this document is concerned only with the
last two categories, which comprise the Independent Submission stream
and the IRTF stream, respectively [N1].
Following the approval of RFC 2026 [N2] and prior to the publication
of RFC 3932 [I1], the IESG reviewed all Independent Submission stream
documents before publication. This review was often a full-scale
review of technical content, with the Area Directors (ADs) attempting
to clear points with the authors, stimulate revisions of the
documents, encourage the authors to contact appropriate working
groups (WGs), and so on. This was a considerable drain on the
resources of the IESG, and because this was not the highest priority
task of the IESG members, it often resulted in significant delays.
In March 2004, the IESG decided to make a major change in this review
model, with the IESG taking responsibility only for checking for
conflicts between the work of the IETF and the documents submitted.
Soliciting technical review is deemed to be the responsibility of the
RFC Editor. If an individual AD chooses to review the technical
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content of the document and finds issues, that AD will communicate
these issues to the RFC Editor, and they will be treated the same way
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