Handling of Internet-Drafts by IETF Working Groups
RFC 7221, “Handling of Internet-Drafts by IETF Working Groups”, is an Informational document published in April 2014 by A. Farrel, D. Crocker. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
The productive output of an IETF working group is documents, as mandated by the working group's charter. When a working group is ready to develop a particular document, the most common mechanism is for it to "adopt" an existing document as a starting point. The document that a working group adopts and then develops further is based on initial input at varying levels of maturity. An initial working group draft might be a document already in wide use, or it might be a blank sheet, wholly created by the working group, or it might represent any level of maturity in between. This document discusses how a working group typically handles the formal documents that it targets for publication.
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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