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Foil 3 Internet Documents: Drafts, Memos and Standards

From Setting the Stage for CGI Programming: HTTP, URL, CGI, MIME, HTTPD ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Fall Semester 96. by Nancy J. McCracken * See also color IMAGE
Some material presented here comes from Internet documents. Here is a summary of various document formats you may find.
Internet Drafts
  • Working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its Area and Working Groups.
  • Other groups may also distribute Internet Drafts.
  • Some of these IDs are labelled by IETF-#.
  • IDs are valid for a maximum of 6 months and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time.
Internet Memos
  • Referred to as RFC-# (Request for Comments)
  • More formal and complete than Internet Drafts, usually represent standard proposals/candidates.
  • Some RFCs become obsolete by subsequent RFCs, some others make it as standards
Internet Standards
  • Labelled by STD-# and often associated with the RFC-# specs (e.g. Internet E-Mail is referred to as FRC-822 or STD-11)

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