The RFC Series and RFC Editor
RFC 4844
Document | Type |
RFC - Informational
(July 2007; No errata)
Updated by RFC 5741
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Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Stream | IAB | ||
Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
Stream | IAB state | (None) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
RFC Editor Note | (None) |
Network Working Group L. Daigle, Ed. Request for Comments: 4844 Category: Informational Internet Architecture Board (IAB) July 2007 The RFC Series and 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 This document describes the framework for an RFC Series and an RFC Editor function that incorporate the principles of organized community involvement and accountability that has become necessary as the Internet technical community has grown, thereby enabling the RFC Series to continue to fulfill its mandate. Daigle & IAB Informational [Page 1] RFC 4844 The RFC Series and RFC Editor July 2007 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. RFC Series Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Roles and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.1. RFC Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2. IAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3. Operational Oversight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.4. Policy Oversight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4. Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.1. Document Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1.1. Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1.2. Operational Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1.3. Process Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.1.4. Existing Approval Process Documents . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2. Editing, Processing, and Publication of Documents . . . . 8 4.2.1. Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2.2. Operational Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2.3. Process Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2.4. Existing Process Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.3. Archiving, Indexing, and Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.3.1. Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.3.2. Operational Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.3.3. Process Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.3.4. Existing Process Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.4. Series-Wide Guidelines and Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.4.1. Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.4.2. Operational Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.4.3. Process Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.4.4. Existing Process Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5. RFC Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.1. RFC Approval Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.1.1. IETF Document Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.1.2. IAB Document Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.1.3. IRTF Document Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.1.4. Independent Submission Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 5.2. RFC Technical Publication Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.2.1. IETF Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.2.2. IAB Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.2.3. IRTF Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5.2.4. Independent Submissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7. IAB Members at the Time of Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 8. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Appendix A. A Retrospective of IAB Charters and RFC Editor . . . 17 A.1. 1992 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 A.2. 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 A.3. 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Daigle & IAB Informational [Page 2] RFC 4844 The RFC Series and RFC Editor July 2007 1. Introduction The first Request for Comments (RFC) document was published in April of 1969 as part of the effort to design and build what we now know of as the Internet. Since then, the RFC Series has been the archival series dedicated to documenting Internet technical specifications, including both general contributions from the Internet research andShow full document text