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- Network Working Group J. Postel
- Request for Comments: 1818 ISI
- BCP: 1 T. Li
- Category: Best Current Practice cisco Systems
- Y. Rekhter
- cisco Systems
- August 1995
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- Best Current Practices
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- Status of this Memo
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- This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the
- Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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- Abstract
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- This document describes a new series of documents which describe best
- current practices for the Internet community. Documents in this
- series carry the endorsement of the Internet Engineering Steering
- Group (IESG).
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- Discussion
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- The current IETF process has two types of RFCs: standards track
- documents and other RFCs (e.g., informational, experimental, FYIs)
- [1]. The intent of the standards track documents is clear, and
- culminates in an official Internet Standard [2,3]. Informational
- RFCs can be published on a less formal basis, subject to the
- reasonable constraints of the RFC editor. Informational RFCs are not
- subject to peer review and carry no significance whatsoever within
- the IETF process [4].
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- The IETF currently has no other mechanism or means of publishing
- relevant technical information which it endorses. This document
- creates a new subseries of RFCs, entitled Best Current Practices
- BCPs).
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- The BCP process is similar to that for proposed standards. The BCP
- is submitted to the IESG for review, and the existing review process
- applies, including a "last call" on the IETF announcement mailing
- list. However, once the IESG has approved the document, the process
- ends and the document is published. The resulting document is viewed
- as having the technical approval of the IETF, but it is not, and
- cannot become an official Internet Standard.
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- Postel, Li & Rekhter Best Current Practice [Page 1]
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- RFC 1818 Best Current Practices August 1995
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- Possible examples of technical information to which BCPs could be
- applied are "OSI NSAP Allocation" [5], and "OSPF Applicability
- Statement" [6].
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- References
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- [1] IAB, and IESG, "Internet Standards Process -- Revision 2", RFC
- 1602, IAB and IESG, March 1994.
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- [2] Postel, J., Editor, "Internet Official Protocol Standards", STD
- 1, RFC 1800, IAB, July 1995.
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- [3] Hinden, R., "Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Routing
- Protocol Standardization Criteria", RFC 1264, BBN, October 1991.
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- [4] Waitzman, D., "Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on
- Avian Carriers", RFC 1149, BBN, April 1990.
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- [5] Collela, R., Callon, R., Gardner, E., and Y. Rekhter, "Guidelines
- for OSI NSAP Allocation in the Internet", RFC 1629, NIST,
- Wellfleet, Mitre, IBM, May 1994.
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- [6] Chapin, L., "Applicability Statement for OSPF", RFC 1370, IAB,
- October 1992.
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- Security Considerations
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- Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
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- Postel, Li & Rekhter Best Current Practice [Page 2]
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- RFC 1818 Best Current Practices August 1995
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- Authors' Addresses
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- Jon Postel
- USC - ISI, Suite 1001
- 4676 Admiralty Way
- Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
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- Phone: 310-822-1511
- EMail: postel@isi.edu
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- Yakov Rekhter
- cisco Systems, Inc.
- 170 West Tasman Drive
- San Jose, CA 95134
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- Phone: 914-528-0090
- EMail: yakov@cisco.com
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- Tony Li
- cisco Systems, Inc.
- 1525 O'Brien Drive
- Menlo Park, CA 94025
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- EMail: tli@cisco.com
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