Retiring the Tao of the IETF
RFC 9592, “Retiring the Tao of the IETF”, is an Informational document published in June 2024 by N. ten Oever, G. Wood. It obsoletes RFC 6722. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document retires and obsoletes the Tao of the IETF as an IETF-maintained document. This document also obsoletes RFC 6722, which describes the publication process of the Tao. Furthermore, this document describes the rationale for the retirement of the Tao. For archival purposes, the last version of the Tao is included in the appendix. Information that new participants need to engage in the work of the IETF will continue to be provided through the IETF website in a more timely and accessible manner. This is the way.
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 9594 Key Provisioning for Group Communication Using Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments
- RFC 9589 On the Use of the Cryptographic Message Syntax Signing-Time Attribute in Resource Public Key Infrastructure Signed Objects
- RFC 9595 YANG Schema Item iDentifier
- RFC 9588 Kerberos Simple Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Pre- authentication
- RFC 9596 CBOR Object Signing and Encryption "typ" Header Parameter