RFC 7101

List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by a Web Page

📅 published December 2013, from ietf

RFC 7101: List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by a Web Page 💖

Okay bestie, let's get the basics 🎀. This one is from the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) 🦋, written by Sandy Ginoza of Association Management Solutions (AMS) 🌸. It's an Informational doc, published in December 2013 ✨, with ISSN 2070-1721. The header doesn't list any RFCs it obsoletes or updates, so it's a standalone announcement 🧚.

Abstract

Once upon a time the RFC Editor published snapshots of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" 📜. These were called xx00 documents, and the last one dropped in May 2008 😭. The snapshots have since been replaced by a web page, so the RFC Editor is done publishing them as RFCs 💅. That means unpublished RFC xx00 numbers from 0 through 7000 get classified as never issued. Starting with RFC 7100, xx00 numbers are open for assignment 🎉.

Status of This Memo

Not a Standards Track spec, just here for info 🌈.

This doc is a product of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and holds information the IAB thought was worth keeping on the permanent record 📚. It reflects the IAB's consensus. Docs the IAB approves for publication are not candidates for any level of Internet Standard, see Section 2 of RFC 5741 🙈.

For the current status, any errata, and how to give feedback, check http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7101 🔗.

Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved 🔒.

This doc is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) as in effect on the date of publication. Please read them closely, because they spell out your rights and restrictions for this doc 📝.

1. Introduction ✨

[RFC1083], published in December 1988, was the first RFC-series doc to lay out a "list of documents that define the standards for the Internet protocol suite" plus any ongoing experiments 🧁. Snapshots came out now and then. [RFC1280] was the first of those to be published as STD 1 👑. Starting with [RFC2200], RFC numbers ending in 00 were reserved for snapshots of the Official Protocol Standards 🍓. [RFC5000], published in May 2008, was the last snapshot documented in an RFC 🥲. This doc notes that the xx00 documents are being replaced by the online resource from the RFC Editor, and the snapshot tradition is being discontinued 🫶. The numbers that were usually set aside for these docs (the ones ending in 00) are now available for other RFCs-to-be 🦋.

2. Online List of Official Internet Protocol Standards 💜

Back in the day, a snapshot of the current list of Standards Track and Experimental docs was genuinely helpful, because the info wasn't available anywhere else 🙏. In 1996, [RFC2026] documented the IETF's wish for periodic publication of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" 🗓️. Then in 2000, the RFC Editor made an online list that updates dynamically and is available to anyone with public Internet access [STDS-TRK] 💻. That list has been online for over 10 years, and the IETF has said it no longer sees a need to maintain the snapshot doc [RFC7100]. So the official list of Standards Track docs will now live online 🫧.

3. STD 1 🌸

STD 1 has been in an abnormal state since RFC 5000 came out 😵‍💫. After talking with the IAB, RFC 5000 was published as an Informational doc, but it still had the STD 1 label in its header. It was marked Informational because the doc doesn't describe an implementable Standard. It was still tied to STD 1 though, to keep it consistent with its historic link to that subseries identifier 🧷.

The IETF has decided to move RFC 5000 (and therefore STD 1) to Historic status [RFC7100]. Once STD 1 is marked Historic, the identifier STD 1 won't be available for future use 🪦.

4. Cleaning Up RFC Editor Data 🧹

As part of wrapping up the xx00 series titled "Internet Official Protocol Standards", the RFC Editor is marking a bunch of unused numbers ending in 00, through RFC 7000, as "never issued" 🗑️. Every RFC number ending in 00 from 7100 onward is now available to assign to any RFC 💅.

5. Security Considerations 🔐

This document does not impact the security of the Internet. Not a single packet, not a single key, not one lock. Totally safe, bestie 😌.

6. Informative References 📚

  • [RFC1083] Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Internet Activities Board, "IAB official protocol standards", RFC 1083, December 1988.
  • [RFC1280] Postel, J., "IAB Official Protocol Standards", RFC 1280, March 1992.
  • [RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996.
  • [RFC2200] Postel, J., "Internet Official Protocol Standards", RFC 2200, June 1997.
  • [RFC5000] RFC Editor, "Internet Official Protocol Standards", STD 1, RFC 5000, May 2008.
  • [RFC7100] Resnick, P., "Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document", BCP 9, RFC 7100, December 2013.
  • [STDS-TRK] RFC Editor, "Official Internet Protocol Standards", <http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html>.

7. Acknowledgements 🫶

Huge thanks to Nevil Brownlee, Brian Carpenter, Heather Flanagan, and Alice Russo for reviewing and weighing in on this doc 🌟. Also a big shoutout to Dongjin Son and Bob Braden for writing the scripts that generate the "Official Internet Protocol Standards" page 👑.

Author's Address 💌

Sandy Ginoza
Association Management Solutions
48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117
Fremont, CA 94538
United States

Phone: +1 (510) 492-4000
EMail: sginoza@amsl.com

That's the whole tea, bestie 🌈✨💅

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