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Title : A proposal describing categories of IETF documents:
unbaked, baking, baked, eaten, and boiled
Author(s) : T. Hardie
Filename : draft-hardie-category-descriptions-00.txt
Pages : 5
Date : 2003-6-10
Over time, the document series associated with the IETF has grown
and changed. One such change is the increase in the use of
secondary markers to identify when documents fit specific
categories and, especially, when they are or are not the product
of specific IETF processes. The author believes that these
secondary markers have largely failed but that the distinctions
they were meant to draw remain valuable. A new set of category
labels is proposed to re-emphasize these distinctions. The formal
categories proposed are Internet Note, Candidate Specification,
Proposed IETF Standard, Confirmed IETF Standard, and External
Internet Engineering Document. These may be informally understood
as ideas which are unbaked, baking, baked, eaten, and boiled.
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