Internet-Draft S. Ginoza Category: Informational AMS August 2013 List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by an Online Database draft-rfced-rfcxx00-retired-04 Abstract At one time, the RFC Editor published periodic snapshots of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards". These documents were known as xx00 documents, the most of which was published in May 2008. This document notes that the RFC Editor will no longer be publishing these snapshots as RFCs. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on February 23, 2014. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 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. Ginoza Informational [Page 1] Internet-Draft Official Protocol Standards August 2013 1. Introduction [RFC1083], published in December 1988, was the first document published in the RFC series that detailed a "list of documents that define the standards for the Internet protocol suite" and any ongoing experiments. Snapshots were published on a periodic basis. [RFC1280] was the first of these publications to be published as STD 1. Starting with [RFC2200], RFC numbers ending with 00 were reserved for snapshots of the Official Protocol Standards. [RFC5000], published in May 2008, was the last snapshot documented in an RFC. This document notes that the RFC Editor will no longer continue this tradition, and that RFC numbers typically reserved for these documents (i.e., those numbers ending with 00) will be available for assignment to other RFCs-to-be. 2. Online List of Official Internet Protocol Standards Previously, publishing a snapshot of the current list of Standards Track and Experimental documents was helpful to the Internet community, as the information was not available otherwise. However, in 2000, the RFC Editor produced an online list that is dynamically updated and available to individuals with access to the public Internet [STDS-TRK]. As the list has been online for over 10 years, it is time to make the online list more official. 3. STD 1 In some sense, STD 1 was retired when RFC 5000 was published. After consultation with the IAB, RFC 5000 was published as an Informational document, but was still identified as STD 1 in the document header. The status was listed as Informational, as the document does not describe an implementable Standard. However, it was associated with STD 1 to keep the document consistent with its historic connection to the subseries identifier. Because the online list has obsoleted the xx00 publications in practice, the IESG has decided to pursue moving RFC 5000 and STD 1 to Historic [RETIRE-STD1]. Marking STD 1 as Historic would result in identifier STD 1 not being available for future use. 4. Cleaning Up RFC Editor Data As part of the cleanup related to ending the publication of the Official Protocol Standards, the RFC Editor will mark a number of unused numbers ending in 00 through RFC 7000 "never issued". Moving forward, other numbers typically reserved for these documents (i.e., those numbers ending with 00) will be assigned to future RFCs-to-be. Ginoza Informational [Page 2] Internet-Draft Official Protocol Standards August 2013 5. IANA Considerations This document does not request any IANA actions. 6. Security Considerations This document does not impact the security of the Internet. 7. Informative References [RETIRE-STD1] Resnick, P., "Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document", Work in Progress, August 2013. [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. [RFC2200] Postel, J., "Internet Official Protocol Standards", RFC 2200, June 1997. [RFC5000] RFC Editor, "Internet Official Protocol Standards", STD 1, RFC 5000, May 2008. [STDS-TRK] RFC Editor, "Official Internet Protocol Standards", . 8. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Nevil Brownlee, Brian Carpenter, Heather Flanagan, and Alice Russo for their review and input on this document. We would also like to thank Bob Braden for his efforts in writing the scripts that produce the "Official Internet Protocol Standards" page . Ginoza Informational [Page 3] Internet-Draft Official Protocol Standards August 2013 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 Ginoza Informational [Page 4]