2026: The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3.
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This memo documents the process used by the Internet community for the standardization of protocols and procedures. It defines the stages in the standardization process, the requirements for moving a document between stages and the types of documents used during this process. It also addresses the intellectual property rights and copyright issues associated with the standards process.
Status BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
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Also ['BCP0009']
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Date October 1996
Keyphrases Standards Internet Standards specification Standards Process
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- RFC2360: Guide for Internet Standards Writers.
- RFC2410: The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec.
- RFC2418: IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures.
- RFC2434: Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs.
- RFC2436: Collaboration between ISOC/IETF and
- RFC2438: Advancement of MIB specifications on the IETF Standards Track.
- RFC2500: Internet Official Protocol Standards.
- RFC2518: HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring --
- RFC2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
- RFC2629: Writing I-Ds and RFCs using
- RFC2639: Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Implementer's Guide.
- RFC2665: Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types.
- RFC2668: Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs).
- RFC2677: Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP).
- RFC2679: A One-way Delay Metric for
- RFC2680: A One-way Packet Loss Metric for
- RFC2699: Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 2600-2699.
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- RFC2706: ECML v1: Field Names for E-Commerce.
- RFC2707: Job Monitoring MIB - V1.0.
- RFC2710: Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6.
- RFC2717: Registration Procedures for URL Scheme Names.
- RFC2732: Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's.
- RFC2737: Entity MIB (Version 2).
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- RFC2795: The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS).
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- RFC2925: Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations.
- RFC2928: Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA ID Assignments.
- RFC2940: Definitions of Managed Objects for Common Open Policy Service (COPS) Protocol Clients.
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- RFC2993: Architectural Implications of
- RFC3000: Internet Official Protocol Standards.
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- RFC3018: Unified Memory Space Protocol Specification.
- RFC3037: LDP Applicability.
- RFC3045: Storing Vendor Information in the LDAP root
- RFC3046: DHCP Relay Agent Information Option.
- RFC3047: RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1.
- RFC3059: Attribute List Extension for the Service Location Protocol.
- RFC3066: Tags for the Identification of Languages.
- RFC3068: An Anycast Prefix for 6to4 Relay Routers.
- RFC3106: ECML v1.1: Field Specifications for E-Commerce.
- RFC3111: Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6.
- RFC3124: The Congestion Manager.
- RFC3127: Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting: Protocol Evaluation.
- RFC3130: Notes from the State-Of-The-Technology:
- RFC3131: 3GPP2-IETF Standardization Collaboration.
- RFC3138: Extended Assignments in 233/8.
- RFC3157: Securely Available Credentials - Requirements.
- RFC3163: ISO/IEC 9798-3 Authentication SASL Mechanism.
- RFC3171: IANA Guidelines for IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments.
- RFC3172: Management Guidelines & Operational Requirements for the Address and Routing Parameter Area Domain ("arpa").
- RFC3177: IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites. IAB,
- RFC3184: IETF Guidelines for Conduct.
- RFC3185: Reuse of CMS Content Encryption Keys.
- RFC3196: Internet Printing Protocol/1.1: Implementor's Guide.
- RFC3198: Terminology for Policy-Based Management.
- RFC3214: LSP Modification Using CR-LDP.
- RFC3220: IP Mobility Support for IPv4.
- RFC3221: Commentary on Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet.
- RFC3222: Terminology for Forwarding Information Base (FIB) based Router Performance.
- RFC3233: Defining the
- RFC3237: Requirements for Reliable Server Pooling.
- RFC3253: Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning).
- RFC3281: An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization.
- RFC3287: Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for Differentiated Services.
- RFC3295: Definitions of Managed Objects for the General Switch Management Protocol (GSMP).
- RFC3300: Internet Official Protocol Standards.
- RFC3304: Middlebox Communications (midcom) Protocol Requirements.
- RFC3306: Unicast-Prefix-based IPv6 Multicast Addresses.
- RFC3307: Allocation Guidelines for IPv6 Multicast Addresses.
- RFC3309: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Checksum Change.
- RFC3313: Private Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extensions for Media Authorization.
- RFC3314: Recommendations for IPv6 in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Standards.
- RFC3316: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for Some Second and Third Generation Cellular Hosts.
- RFC3317: Differentiated Services Quality of Service Policy Information Base.
- RFC3320: Signaling Compression (SigComp).
- RFC3327: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Extension Header Field for Registering Non-Adjacent Contacts.
- RFC3344: IP Mobility Support for IPv4.
- RFC3347: Small Computer Systems Interface protocol over the Internet (iSCSI) Requirements and Design Considerations.
- RFC3354: Internet Open Trading Protocol Version 2 Requirements.
- RFC3356: Internet Engineering Task Force and International Telecommunication Union - Telecommunications Standardization Sector Collaboration Guidelines.
- RFC3360: Inappropriate TCP Resets Considered Harmful.
- RFC3383: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
- RFC3385: Internet Protocol Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)/Checksum Considerations.
- RFC3386: Network Hierarchy and Multilayer Survivability.
- RFC3395: Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Reference Extensions.
- RFC3406: Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanisms.
- RFC3407: Session Description Protocol (SDP) Simple Capability Declaration.
- RFC3410: Introduction and Applicability Statements for Internet-Standard Management Framework.
- RFC3418: Management Information Base (MIB) for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
- RFC3425: Obsoleting
- RFC3427: Change Process for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
- RFC3432: Network performance measurement with periodic streams.
- RFC3434: Remote Monitoring MIB Extensions for High Capacity Alarms.
- RFC3435: Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP) Version 1.0.
- RFC3436: Transport Layer Security over Stream Control Transmission Protocol.
- RFC3440: Definitions of Extension Managed Objects for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines.
- RFC3444: On the Difference between Information Models and Data Models.
- RFC3450: Asynchronous Layered Coding (ALC) Protocol Instantiation.
- RFC3451: Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block.
- RFC3452: Forward Error Correction (FEC) Building Block.
- RFC3453: The Use of Forward Error Correction (FEC) in Reliable Multicast.
- RFC3458: Message Context for Internet Mail.
- RFC3459: Critical Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Parameter.
- RFC3468: The Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Working Group decision on MPLS signaling protocols.
- RFC3471: Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Functional Description.
- RFC3472: Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Constraint-based Routed Label Distribution Protocol (CR-LDP) Extensions.
- RFC3473: Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions.
- RFC3474: Documentation of IANA assignments for Generalized MultiProtocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Usage and Extensions for Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON).
- RFC3478: Graceful Restart Mechanism for Label Distribution Protocol.
- RFC3479: Fault Tolerance for the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP).
- RFC3482: Number Portability in the Global Switched Telephone Network (GSTN): An Overview.
- RFC3484: Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
- RFC3488: Cisco Systems Router-port Group Management Protocol (RGMP).
- RFC3505: Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML): Version 2 Requirements.
- RFC3513: Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Addressing Architecture.
- RFC3517: A Conservative Selective Acknowledgment (SACK)-based Loss Recovery Algorithm for
- RFC3525: Gateway Control Protocol Version 1.
- RFC3531: A Flexible Method for Managing the Assignment of Bits of an IPv6 Address Block.
- RFC3532: Requirements for the Dynamic Partitioning of Switching Elements.
- RFC3537: Wrapping a Hashed Message Authentication Code (HMAC) key with a Triple-Data Encryption Standard (DES) Key or an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Key.
- RFC3557: RTP Payload Format for European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) European Standard ES 201 108 Distributed Speech Recognition Encoding.
- RFC3563: Cooperative Agreement Between the ISOC/IETF and ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1/Sub Committee 6 (JTC1/SC6) on IS-IS Routing Protocol Development.
- RFC3566: The AES-XCBC-MAC-96 Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec.
- RFC3573: Signalling of Modem-On-Hold status in Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP).
- RFC3577: Introduction to the Remote Monitoring (RMON) Family of MIB Modules.
- RFC3589: Diameter Command Codes for Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 5.
- RFC3600: Internet Official Protocol Standards.
- RFC3612: Applicability Statement for Restart Mechanisms for the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP).
- RFC3621: Power Ethernet
- RFC3635: Definitions of Managed Objects for the Ethernet-like Interface Types.
- RFC3636: Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 Medium Attachment Units (MAUs).
- RFC3643: Fibre Channel (FC) Frame Encapsulation.
- RFC3667: IETF Rights in Contributions.
- RFC3668: Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology.
- RFC3669: Guidelines for Working Groups on Intellectual Property Issues.
- RFC3683: A Practice for Revoking Posting Rights to IETF Mailing Lists.
- RFC3690: IP Telephony Requirements for Emergency Telecommunication Service (ETS).
- RFC3695: Compact Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes.
- RFC3700: Internet Official Protocol Standards.
- RFC3705: High Capacity Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals.
- RFC3710: An IESG charter.
- RFC3716: The IETF in the Large: Administration and Execution. IAB Advisory Committee.
- RFC3774: IETF Problem Statement.
- RFC3795: Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Application Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents.
- RFC3814: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Forwarding Equivalence Class To Next Hop Label Forwarding Entry (FEC-To-NHLFE) Management Information Base (MIB).
- RFC3844: IETF Problem Resolution Process.
- RFC3864: Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields.
- RFC3871: Operational Security Requirements for Large Internet Service Provider (ISP) IP Network Infrastructure.
- RFC3876: Returning Matched Values with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol version 3 (LDAPv3).
- RFC3901: DNS IPv6 Transport Operational Guidelines.
- RFC3919: Remote Network Monitoring (RMON) Protocol Identifiers for IPv6 and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS).
- RFC3932: The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: Procedures.
- RFC3933: A Model for IETF Process Experiments.
- RFC3934: Updates to RFC 2418 Regarding the Management of IETF Mailing Lists.
- RFC3967: Clarifying when Standards Track Documents may Refer Normatively to Documents at a Lower Level.
- RFC3978: IETF Rights in Contributions.
- RFC3979: Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology.
- RFC4052: IAB Processes for Management of IETF Liaison Relationships. L. Daigle, Ed., Internet Architecture Board.
- RFC4071: Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA).
- RFC4089: IAB and IESG Recommendation for IETF Administrative Restructuring. S. Hollenbeck, Ed., IAB and
- RFC4130: MIME-Based Secure Peer-to-Peer Business Data Interchange Using HTTP, Applicability Statement 2 (AS2).
- RFC4150: Transport Performance Metrics
- RFC4221: Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Management Overview.
- RFC4249: Implementer-Friendly Specification of Message and MIME-Part Header Fields and Field Components.
- RFC4278: Standards Maturity Variance Regarding the TCP MD5 Signature Option (RFC 2385) and the BGP-4 Specification.
- RFC4288: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures.
- RFC4289: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures.
- RFC4450: Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents.
- RFC4520: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Considerations for the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
- RFC4608: Source-Specific Protocol Independent Multicast in 232/8.
- RFC4611: Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) Deployment Scenarios.
- RFC4614: A Roadmap for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Specification Documents.
- RFC4633: Experiment in Long-Term Suspensions From Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Mailing Lists.
- RFC4646: Tags for Identifying Languages.
- RFC4663: Transferring MIB Work from IETF Bridge MIB WG to IEEE 802.1
- RFC4677: The Tao of IETF - A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- RFC4691: Guidelines for Acting as an IETF Liaison to Another Organization.