Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document
The IETF retires STD 1, the periodically published summary of Internet standards.
Resnick, P., "Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document", BCP 9, RFC 7100, DOI 10.17487/RFC7100, December 2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7100>.
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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.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It 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/rfc7100.
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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.
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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§1Why STD 1 Is Retired
RFC 2026 and its predecessors called for periodic publication of an RFC summarizing the status of Internet protocol and service specifications. The summary was known as STD 1; its latest version at the time was RFC 5000.
RFC 7100 says the summary had not been kept up to date and had fallen out of use in favor of the RFC Editor's online list. The IETF no longer saw a need to maintain the separate document.
The separate standards summary was out of date, while the RFC Editor's online list was being used instead. The IETF decided that it no longer needed to maintain the summary.
§1Changes to the Standards Process
RFC 7100 updates RFC 2026 by removing the paragraphs that call for the standards summary in Sections 2.1, 3.3 and 6.1.3. It also obsoletes RFC 5000 and asks the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) to move RFC 5000 and STD 1 to Historic status.
RFC 2026 also called for a newsletter summary of completed and pending standards actions. RFC 7100 says the IESG minutes had become the publication of record, so it removes that requirement too.
The memo removes the old instructions to publish the standards summary and a newsletter report. It names the online list and IESG minutes as the sources already serving those purposes.
§2Security Considerations
The RFC states that this process change does not impact the security of the Internet. It changes publication requirements rather than protocol behavior.
This change is about publishing standards information. The RFC says it does not affect Internet security.