Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section
RFC 7942, “Improving Awareness of Running Code: The Implementation Status Section”, is a Best Current Practice document published in July 2016 by Y. Sheffer, A. Farrel. It obsoletes RFC 6982. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes a simple process that allows authors of Internet-Drafts to record the status of known implementations by including an Implementation Status section. This will allow reviewers and working groups to assign due consideration to documents that have the benefit of running code, which may serve as evidence of valuable experimentation and feedback that have made the implemented protocols more mature.
This process is not mandatory. Authors of Internet-Drafts are encouraged to consider using the process for their documents, and working groups are invited to think about applying the process to all of their protocol specifications. This document obsoletes RFC 6982, advancing it to a Best Current Practice.
What “Best Current Practice” means
Documents the IETF community's recommended operational or procedural practice rather than a protocol specification.
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- RFC 7941 RTP Header Extension for the RTP Control Protocol Source Description Items
- RFC 7943 A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
- RFC 7940 Representing Label Generation Rulesets Using XML
- RFC 7944 Diameter Routing Message Priority
- RFC 7939 Definition of Managed Objects for the Neighborhood Discovery Protocol
- RFC 7945 Information-Centric Networking: Evaluation and Security Considerations
- RFC 7938 Use of BGP for Routing in Large-Scale Data Centers
- RFC 7946 The GeoJSON Format