Retiring the Tao of the IETF
This specification has been revised 6 times since RFC 1391 (1993). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.
Revision timeline
Current version — implement against this
Superseded versions — historical reference only
- RFC 1391The Tao of the IETF: A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task ForceObsoletedJanuary 1993informationalreplaced by RFC1539
- RFC 1539The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task ForceObsoletedOctober 1993informationalreplaced by RFC1718
- RFC 1718The Tao of IETF - A Guide for New Attendees of the Internet Engineering Task ForceObsoletedNovember 1994informationalreplaced by RFC3160
- RFC 3160The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task ForceObsoletedAugust 2001informationalreplaced by RFC4677
- RFC 4677The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task ForceObsoletedSeptember 2006informationalreplaced by RFC6722
- RFC 6722Publishing the "Tao of the IETF" as a Web PageObsoletedAugust 2012informationalreplaced by RFC9592
This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 9592 (June 2024).