Status of RFCs

[Craig Partridge <craig at NNSC.NSF.NET>]

Hi folks:

    The IAB has asked the IESG to make recommendations about the
status of various old and not so old RFCs.   We've consulted with
various people who are responsible for or have used the protocols and
come up with a list of recommendations.  We're now circulating
the list of proposed recommendations for comment.  The IESG plans
to submit this list to the IAB after the IETF meeting, after which
we expected to find these recommendations enshrined in the next
quarterly release of "IAB OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS."

    Anyone with comments, concerns, objections, should send them to
the IESG at iesg at nri.reston.va.us.

Thanks!

Craig


RFC1006
    Draft Standard.  (Widely implemented, it works and is popular).
    Make Standard, implementation Elective soon?

POP3       Post Office Protocol, Version 3          Elective   1081,1082
    Standard, implementation elective.
    (M. Rose says POP3 is what's used out there).

RIP        Routing Information Protocol             Elective        1058
    Move to Draft Standard, with the goal of getting it to
    be a standard whose implementation is elective
    (Widely implemented but not what we want to build on).

PCMAIL     Pcmail Transport Protocol                Elective        1056
    Historical protocol -- implementation not recommended.

           Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822        Elective    987,1026
    Proposed Standard.  (far enough along to merit higher status?)


STATSRV    Statistics Server                        Elective         996
    Historical -- it was what Dave Mills put in the Fuzzies so we could
    manage NSFNET before we had a management protocol.

NNTP       Network News Transfer Protocol           Elective         977
    Standard, implementation elective.

NICNAME    WhoIs Protocol                           Elective         954
    Move to Draft Standard, with the goal of getting it to
    be a standard whose implementation is elective.

HOSTNAME   HOSTNAME Protocol                        Elective         953
    Move to Draft Standard, with the goal of getting it to
    be a standard whose implementation is elective.

POP2       Post Office Protocol, Version 2          Elective         937
    Obsoleted by POP3.

SFTP       Simple File Transfer Protocol            Elective         913
    Historical protocol -- implementation not recommended.

RLP        Resource Location Protocol               Elective         887
    Historical protocol -- implementation not recommended.

FINGER     Finger Protocol                          Elective         742
    Move to Draft Standard, with the goal of getting to be
    a standard whose implementation is elective.

SUPDUP     SUPDUP Protocol                          Elective         734
    Historical protocol -- implementation not recommended.

NETED      Network Standard Text Editor             Elective         569
    Historical protocol -- implementation not recommended.

RJE        Remote Job Entry                         Elective         407
    Historical protocol -- implementation not recommended.


RTELNET    Remote Telnet Service                    Elective         818
    Historical?

SUN-NFS    Network File System Protocol             Elective        1094
    Hold based on IETF WG review.

SUN-RPC    Remote Procedure Call Protocol           Elective        1057
    Hold based on IETF WG review.

VMTP       Versatile Message Transaction Protocol   Elective        1045
    Proposed Standard?

NFILE      A File Access Protocol                   Elective        1037
    Historical?