On Mar 13, 2019, at 16:38, Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I would be happy if the IETF retired the distinction between Proposed
> Standard, Draft Standard and Internet Standard.
RFC6410 Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels. R. Housley, D.
Crocker, E. Burger. October 2011. (Format: TXT=12619 bytes) (Updates
RFC2026) (Also BCP0009) (Status: BEST CURRENT PRACTICE) (DOI:
10.17487/RFC6410)
We already got rid of Draft Standard at the beginning of the decade.
Both Proposed Standard and Internet Standard are IETF standards documents, or standards for short. If you want to talk about the “Internet Standard” maturity level, “Full Standard” is acceptable vernacular as well.
(Don’t ever use “standards-track” outside IETF… Very confusing.
Sounds like “tenure track”, as in “not yet quite a standard”.)
Grüße, Carsten
