RFC 7100 · BEST CURRENT PRACTICE · 2013
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document
Overview
RFC 7100, “Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document”, is a Best Current Practice document published in December 2013 by P. Resnick. It updates RFC 2026. It obsoletes RFC 5000. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document updates RFC 2026 to no longer use STD 1 as a summary of "Internet Official Protocol Standards". It obsoletes RFC 5000 and requests the IESG to move RFC 5000 (and therefore STD 1) to Historic status.
What “Best Current Practice” means
Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 2013
- RFC 7101 List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by a Web Page
- RFC 7093 Additional Methods for Generating Key Identifiers Values
- RFC 7092 A Taxonomy of Session Initiation Protocol Back-to-Back User Agents
- RFC 7091 GOST R 34.10-2012: Digital Signature Algorithm
- RFC 7089 HTTP Framework for Time-Based Access to Resource States -- Memento
- RFC 7087 A Thesaurus for the Interpretation of Terminology Used in MPLS Transport Profile Internet-Drafts and RFCs in the Context of the ITU-T's Transport Network Recommendations
- RFC 7085 Top-Level Domains That Are Already Dotless
- RFC 7084 Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers