Re: [dow1-2tf] FW: RFC 3981 on IRIS: The Internet Registry Information Service (IRIS)Core Protocol

[Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2005-01-06 20:35:47 -0500, Jeff Neuman wrote:

> IRIS is officially an Internet Standard with RFC number 3981.

That's not the case.

IRIS has been published as a standards track RFC. This RFC is in the
entry-level "proposed standard" state, i.e., at the lowest maturity
level that a "standards track" protocol can have.  The next maturity
level will be "draft standard" (which requires two independent
interoperable implementations); only after further experience has
been gathered with the protocol, CRISP can become a formal Internet
standard.

Many proposed standards never make it to standard state.

See section 4.1 of <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt> for details
on the IETF standards process.

Regards,
-- 
Thomas Roessler · Personal soap box at <http://log.does-not-exist.org/>.






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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
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>         RFC 3981
> 
>         Title:      IRIS: The Internet Registry Information Service
>                     (IRIS) Core Protocol
>         Author(s):  A. Newton, M. Sanz
>         Status:     Standards Track
>         Date:       January 2005
>         Mailbox:    anewton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sanz@xxxxxxxx
>         Pages:      52
>         Characters: 101359
>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None
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>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-crisp-iris-core-07.txt
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>         URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3981.txt
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> This document describes an application layer client-server protocol
> for a framework to represent the query and result operations of
> the information services of Internet registries.  Specified in the
> Extensible Markup Language (XML), the protocol defines generic query
> and result operations and a mechanism for extending these operations
> for specific registry service needs.
> 
> This document is a product of the Cross Registry Information Service
> Protocol Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
> 
> This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
> the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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