Jacob,
A "BCP" is one of several types of RFC. BCPs are used to document a "Best Current Practice" in the IETF or the Internet. They are described in section 5 of https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2026 .
The "Network Working Group" was the historical original source of RFCs prior to the IETF. The "Network Working Group" attribution in RFCs was kept for many years in the IETF as a sort of homage. Lately, as you've noticed, it's been updated to "IETF".
As others have noted, you should bring up this discussion on "art@xxxxxxxx".
But you picked the right first place to ask!
Cheers,
Andy
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 1:17 PM Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi IETF folks,
I have a few questions about IETF processes that I hope you all can
answer. I'm coming at these questions as someone who has participated in
a number of WGs, co-authored one RFC and one RFC-to-be, but still
doesn't fully understand the processes.
I'm looking at BCP 190 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp190). How do I
figure out which WG this document was developed in? It doesn't have a
working group listed in the header, nor does the corresponding RFC
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7320).
Also, what's the difference between a BCP and an RFC?
If I look at the document that BCP 190 Updates
(https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986) it lists the "Network Working
Group." What is that? I don't see it listed under
https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/.
In general, if I want to discuss amendments to BCP 190, what mailing
list would I use to start that conversation?
Thanks,
Jacob
