A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7221 Title: Handling of Internet-Drafts by IETF Working Groups Author: A. Farrel, D. Crocker, Ed. Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: April 2014 Mailbox: adrian@olddog.co.uk, dcrocker@bbiw.net Pages: 14 Characters: 31669 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-crocker-id-adoption-09.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7221.txt The productive output of an IETF working group is documents, as mandated by the working group's charter. When a working group is ready to develop a particular document, the most common mechanism is for it to "adopt" an existing document as a starting point. The document that a working group adopts and then develops further is based on initial input at varying levels of maturity. An initial working group draft might be a document already in wide use, or it might be a blank sheet, wholly created by the working group, or it might represent any level of maturity in between. This document discusses how a working group typically handles the formal documents that it targets for publication. 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/search 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