A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6852 Title: Affirmation of the Modern Paradigm for Standards Author: R. Housley, S. Mills, J. Jaffe, B. Aboba, L. St.Amour Status: Informational Stream: IAB Date: January 2013 Mailbox: housley@vigilsec.com, s.mills@ieee.org, jeff@w3.org, bernard_aboba@hotmail.com, st.amour@isoc.org Pages: 5 Characters: 9696 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-iab-modern-paradigm-01.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6852.txt On 29 August 2012, the leaders of the IEEE Standards Association, the IAB, the IETF, the Internet Society, and the W3C signed a statement affirming the importance of a jointly developed set of principles establishing a modern paradigm for global, open standards. These principles have become known as the "OpenStand" principles. This document contains the text of the affirmation that was signed. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Internet Architecture Board. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC