RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates
RFC 5741, “RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates”, is an Informational document published in December 2009 by L. Daigle, O. Kolkman, IAB. It updates RFC 2223, RFC 4844. It has been obsoleted by RFC 7841 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
RFC documents contain a number of fixed elements such as the title page header, standard boilerplates, and copyright/IPR statements. This document describes them and introduces some updates to reflect current usage and requirements of RFC publication. In particular, this updated structure is intended to communicate clearly the source of RFC creation and review. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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- RFC 5740 NACK-Oriented Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol
- RFC 5742 IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions
- RFC 5743 Definition of an Internet Research Task Force Document Stream
- RFC 5744 Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC Independent Submission Stream
- RFC 5745 Procedures for Rights Handling in the RFC IAB Stream
- RFC 5734 Extensible Provisioning Protocol Transport over TCP
- RFC 5733 Extensible Provisioning Protocol Contact Mapping
- RFC 5732 Extensible Provisioning Protocol Host Mapping