RFC 1140 (rfc1140) - Page 2 of 27
IAB official protocol standards
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RFC 1140 IAB Standards May 1990 6.3. Network-Specific Standard Protocols . . . . . . . . . . 19 6.4. Draft Standard Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 6.5. Proposed Standard Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 6.6. Experimental Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6.7. Historic Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 7. Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 7.1. IAB, IETF, and IRTF Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 7.1.1. Internet Activities Board (IAB) Contact . . . . . . . 23 7.1.2. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Contact . . . . 23 7.1.3. Internet Research Task Force (IETF) Contact . . . . . 24 7.2. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Contact . . . 24 7.3. Request for Comments Editor Contact . . . . . . . . . . 25 7.4. Network Information Center Contact . . . . . . . . . . . 25 7.5. Other Sources for Requests for Comments . . . . . . . . 26 7.5.1. NSF Network Service Center (NNSC) . . . . . . . . . . 26 7.5.2. NSF Network Information Service (NIS) . . . . . . . . 26 7.5.3. CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC) . . . 26 8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 9. Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Introduction Discussion of the standardization process and the RFC document series is presented first, then the explanation of the terms is presented, the lists of protocols in each stage of standardization follows and finally come pointers to references and contacts for further information. This memo is issued quarterly, please be sure the copy you are reading is dated within the last three months. Current copies may be obtained from the Network Information Center or from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (see the contact information at the end of this memo). Do not use this edition after 31-Aug-90. See Section 6.1 for a description of recent changes. 1. The Standardization Process The Internet Activities Board maintains this list of documents that define standards for the Internet protocol suite (see RFC-1120 for an explanation of the role and organization of the IAB and its subsidiary groups, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF)). The IAB provides these standards with the goal of co-ordinating the evolution of the Internet protocols; this co-ordination has become quite important as the Internet protocols are increasingly in general commercial use. The majority of Internet protocol development and standardization Internet Activities Board
