Maybe we should reserve RFC 3399 for an April 1st RFC? -- E -----Original Message----- From: ietf-announce-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-announce-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RFC Series Editor Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 1:51 PM To: IETF Announcement List Cc: rsoc@xxxxxxx Subject: The RFC xx99 Series Greetings, The RFC Editor is proposing to retire the practice of publishing RFCs xx99, the Request for Comments Summary for RFC Numbers xx00-xx99. In December 1991, RFC 1099 was the first "Request for Comments Summary" RFC published. It provides a list of document titles, authors, date of publication, and abstracts for each of the RFCs published in the range 1000 - 1099. Since that time, through the time that RFC 3299 was published, a new summary RFC was published every 100 RFCs, and RFC numbers ending with 99 were reserved for these summary documents. RFC 3399 was never published (for various reasons), though RFCs 3499 and 3599 were. RFC 3599 was the last of these summary documents to be published in December 2003. These snapshots are no longer needed because up-to-date data is available online. RFC abstracts are available using the RFC search engine (http://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php) and they are included in rfc-index.xml. RFCs xx99 summaries were never requested by the Internet Community and are not currently filling a need; therefore, the RFC Editor is retiring the publication of the RFC summary documents. RFC numbers typically reserved for these documents (i.e., numbers ending with 99) may be assigned to future RFCs. If there are any concerns about this course of action, please comment by October 18, 2013, on the rfc-interest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list. Thank you, Heather Flanagan, RSE