For anyone experienced with the IETF and RFCs ??

[William Case]

Hi Patrick;

Thanks;

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 13:57 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 12:39 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > Hi;
> > 
> > Just a quick process question.  I have been digging into various RFCs
> > (RFC1918, RFC1700, RF3513 etc.) issued by committees of the IETF.  They
> > are very good and surprisingly clear explanations of how network
> > addressing is to be used.  
> > 
> > My question is this: These memos are entitled Requests for Comments and
> > each have received several detailed and learned comments, yet, the RFC
> > seems to become adopted as written with the comments only attached but
> > not adopted.  I am I misreading the actual RFC process?
> 
> No, there's a process of creating and approving draft versions
> (described in an RFC of course :-) before the RFC Editor decides to
> release the definitive version, but even this is still called an RFC,
> not a Standards Document or anything fancy, although some key RFCs are
> described as being "Standards Track". Comments to an RFC may eventually
> serve to generate a new RFC which supersedes it, e.g. RFC2822 obsoletes
> RFC822.
> 
> See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcfaq.html
> 
> poc

I thought there would have to some kind of institutional illogic
involved.  Glade I asked.


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