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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) P. Resnick Request for Comments: 7100 Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. BCP: 9 December 2013 Obsoletes: 5000 Updates: 2026 Category: Best Current Practice ISSN: 2070-1721

      Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards"
                          Summary Document

Abstract

 This document updates RFC 2026 to no longer use STD 1 as a summary of
 "Internet Official Protocol Standards".  It obsoletes RFC 5000 and
 requests the IESG to move RFC 5000 (and therefore STD 1) to Historic
 status.

Status of This Memo

 This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

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 (IETF).  It has been approved for publication by the Internet
 Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on BCPs is
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1. Retiring STD 1

 RFC 2026 [RFC2026] and its predecessors call for the publication of
 an RFC describing the status of IETF protocols:

    The RFC Editor shall publish periodically an "Internet Official
    Protocol Standards" RFC [1], summarizing the status of all
    Internet protocol and service specifications.

 The "Internet Official Protocol Standards" document, now as RFC 5000
 [RFC5000], has always been listed in the Internet Standard series as
 STD 1.  However, the document has not been kept up to date in recent
 years, and it has fallen out of use in favor of the online list
 produced by the RFC Editor [STDS-TRK].  The IETF no longer sees the
 need for the document to be maintained.  Therefore, this document
 updates RFC 2026 [RFC2026], effectively removing the above-mentioned
 paragraph from Section 6.1.3, along with the paragraph from
 Section 2.1 that states:

    The status of Internet protocol and service specifications is
    summarized periodically in an RFC entitled "Internet Official
    Protocol Standards" [1].  This RFC shows the level of maturity and
    other helpful information for each Internet protocol or service
    specification (see section 3).

 and the paragraph from Section 3.3 that states:

    The "Official Protocol Standards" RFC (STD1) lists a general
    requirement level for each TS, using the nomenclature defined in
    this section.  This RFC is updated periodically.  In many cases,
    more detailed descriptions of the requirement levels of particular
    protocols and of individual features of the protocols will be
    found in appropriate ASs.

 Additionally, this document obsoletes RFC 5000 [RFC5000], the current
 incarnation of that document, and requests that the IESG move that
 document (and therefore STD 1) to Historic status.

 Finally, RFC 2026 [RFC2026] Section 6.1.3 also calls for the
 publication of an "official summary of standards actions completed
 and pending" in the Internet Society's newsletter.  This has also not
 been done in recent years, and the "publication of record" for
 standards actions has for some time been the minutes of the IESG
 [IESG-MINUTES].  Therefore, that paragraph is also effectively
 removed from Section 6.1.3.

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2. Security Considerations

 This document does not impact the security of the Internet.

3. Normative References

 [IESG-MINUTES] Internet Engineering Steering Group, "IESG Telechat
                Minutes", <http://www.ietf.org/iesg/minutes.html>.

 [RFC2026]      Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process --
                Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.

 [RFC5000]      RFC Editor, "Internet Official Protocol Standards",
                RFC 5000, May 2008.

 [STDS-TRK]     RFC Editor, "Official Internet Protocol Standards",
                <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html>.

Author's Address

 Pete Resnick
 Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
 5775 Morehouse Drive
 San Diego, CA  92121
 US

 Phone: +1 858 6511 4478
 EMail: presnick@qti.qualcomm.com

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