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- Network Working Group L. Chapin
- Request for Comments: 1438 BBN
- C. Huitema
- INRIA
- 1 April 1993
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- Internet Engineering Task Force
- Statements Of Boredom (SOBs)
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- Status of this Memo
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- This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
- not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is
- unlimited.
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- Discussion
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- The current IETF process has two types of RFCs: standards track
- documents and other RFCs (e.g., informational, experimental, FYIs).
- The intent of the standards track documents is clear, and culminates
- in an official Internet Standard. Informational RFCs can be
- published on a less formal basis, subject to the reasonable
- constraints of the RFC Editor. Informational RFCs are not subject to
- peer review and carry no significance whatsoever within the IETF
- process.
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- The IETF currently has no mechanism or means of publishing documents
- that express its deep concern about something important, but
- otherwise contain absolutely no useful information whatsoever. This
- document creates a new subseries of RFCs, entitled, IETF Statements
- Of Boredom (SOBs). The SOB process is similar to that of the normal
- standards track. The SOB is submitted to the IAB, the IRSG, the
- IESG, the SOB Editor (Morpheus), and the Academie Francais for
- review, analysis, reproduction in triplicate, translation into ASN.1,
- and distribution to Internet insomniacs. However, once everyone has
- approved the document by falling asleep over it, the process ends and
- the document is discarded. The resulting vacuum is viewed as having
- the technical approval of the IETF, but it is not, and cannot become,
- an official Internet Standard.
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- Chapin & Huitema [Page 1]
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- RFC 1438 IETF SOBs 1 April 1993
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- References
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- [1] Internet Activities Board, "The Internet Standards Process", RFC
- 1310, IAB, March 1992.
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- [2] Postel, J., Editor, "IAB OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS", RFC 1410,
- IAB, March 1993.
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- Security Considerations
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- Security issues are not discussed in this memo, but then again, no
- other issues of any importance are discussed in this memo either.
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- Authors' Addresses
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- A. Lyman Chapin
- Bolt, Beranek & Newman
- Mail Stop 20/5b
- 150 Cambridge Park Drive
- Cambridge, MA 02140
- USA
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- Phone: 1 617 873 3133
- EMail: Lyman@BBN.COM
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- Christian Huitema
- INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
- 2004 Route des Lucioles
- BP 109
- F-06561 Valbonne Cedex
- France
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- Phone: +33 93 65 77 15
- EMail: Christian.Huitema@MIRSA.INRIA.FR
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