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RFC 6410: Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels

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This document updates the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standards Process defined in RFC 2026. Primarily, it reduces the Standards Process from three Standards Track maturity levels to two. This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.

Document record

Document ID
RFC6410
Published
October 2011
Authors
R. Housley; D. Crocker; E. Burger
Status
BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
Stream
IETF
Area
Pages
6
Also known as
BCP9
Updates:
RFC 2026

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