RFC 6410: Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
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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