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Some material presented here comes from Internet documents. Here is a summary of various document formats you may find.
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Internet Drafts
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Working documents of the (IETF), its Area and Working Groups.
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Other groups may also distribute Internet Drafts.
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Some of these IDs are labelled by IETF-#.
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IDs are valid for a maximum of 6 months and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time.
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Internet Memos
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Referred to as RFC-# (Request for Comments)
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More formal and complete than Internet Drafts, usually represent standard proposals/candidates.
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Some RFCs become obsolete by subsequent RFCs, some others make it as standards
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Internet Standards
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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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