Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section
RFC 7942
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(July 2016; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 6982
Also known as BCP 205
Was draft-sheffer-rfc6982bis (individual)
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Authors | Yaron Sheffer , Adrian Farrel | ||
Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | (None) | |
Document shepherd | No shepherd assigned | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 7942 (Best Current Practice) | |
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Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Stephen Farrell | ||
Send notices to | yaronf.ietf@gmail.com, adrian@olddog.co.uk | ||
IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
IANA action state | No IANA Actions |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Y. Sheffer Request for Comments: 7942 Intuit BCP: 205 A. Farrel Obsoletes: 6982 Juniper Networks Category: Best Current Practice July 2016 ISSN: 2070-1721 Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section Abstract This document describes a simple process that allows authors of Internet-Drafts to record the status of known implementations by including an Implementation Status section. This will allow reviewers and working groups to assign due consideration to documents that have the benefit of running code, which may serve as evidence of valuable experimentation and feedback that have made the implemented protocols more mature. This process is not mandatory. Authors of Internet-Drafts are encouraged to consider using the process for their documents, and working groups are invited to think about applying the process to all of their protocol specifications. This document obsoletes RFC 6982, advancing it to a Best Current Practice. 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 7841. 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/rfc7942. Sheffer & Farrel Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 7942 Running Code July 2016 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2016 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 Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. The "Implementation Status" Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1. Introductory Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Alternative Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1. Introduction Most IETF participants are familiar with the saying "rough consensus and running code" [Tao] and can identify with its pragmatic approach. However, implementation is not a requirement for publication as an RFC. There are many examples of Internet-Drafts containing protocol specifications that have gone through to publication as Proposed Standard RFCs without implementation. Some of them may never get implemented. Over time, a variety of policies have been applied within the IETF to consider running code. In the Routing Area, it used to be a requirement that one or more implementations must exist before an Internet-Draft could be published as a Proposed Standard RFC [RFC1264]. That RFC was later obsoleted and the requirement for implementation was lifted, but each working group was given the authority to impose its own implementation requirements [RFC4794] and at least one working group, Inter-Domain Routing (IDR), continues to require two independent implementations. Sheffer & Farrel Best Current Practice [Page 2] RFC 7942 Running Code July 2016 The hypothesis behind the current document is that there are benefits to the IETF standardization process of producing implementations of protocol specifications before publication as RFCs. These benefits, which include determining that the specification is comprehensible and that there is sufficient interest to implement, are further discussed in Section 4. This document describes a simple mechanism that allows authors of Internet-Drafts to record and publicize the status of known implementations by including an Implementation Status section. TheShow full document text