On 1 Dec 2024, at 21:50, Jay Daley wrote:
>> On 2 Dec 2024, at 08:15, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> There's nothing new about Informational RFCs that are a (re)publication >> of an external specification. That was covered in RFC 2026 section 4.2.2: >> >> Specifications that have been prepared outside of the Internet >> community and are not incorporated into the Internet Standards >> Process by any of the provisions of section 10 may be published as >> Informational RFCs, with the permission of the owner and the >> concurrence of the RFC Editor. >> >> It certainly was a bit ambiguous when you couldn't tell from the text of >> the RFC whether it was that kind of Informational or the normal kind that >> originated in the IETF. But that changed when the Independent RFC series >> was formalized. > > Except that we now have two very different meanings for 'informational' that > we only distinguish in the boilerplate, making it hard to spot - 'IETF-wide > consensus informational' and ’Independent, no consensus, informational'. There are also IRTF consensus informational documents (e.g., RFC 9591) and IRTF non-consensus informational documents (e.g., RFC 9382), with two more variants of the boilerplate. Colin _______________________________________________ rfc-interest mailing list -- rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org To unsubscribe send an email to rfc-interest-le...@rfc-editor.org
