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... of the Internet and providers of the equipment, software, and
services that support it should anticipate and embrace this evolution
as a major tenet of Internet ...
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The status of Internet protocol and service specifications is
summarized periodically in an RFC entitled "Internet Official
Protocol Standards" [1 ...
... 1]. This RFC shows the level of maturity and
other helpful information for each Internet protocol or service
specification (see section 3).
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Not all specifications of protocols or services for the Internet
should or will become Internet Standards ...
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A Technical Specification is any description of a protocol, service,
procedure, convention, or format. It may completely describe all of
the relevant aspects of its subject ...
... referred to as a Standard) is characterized by a high degree of
technical maturity and by a generally held belief that the specified
protocol or service provides significant benefit to the Internet
community.
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... networks operated by a great
variety of organizations, with diverse goals and rules, good user
service requires that the operators and administrators of the
Internet ...
... Internet Official
Protocol Standards" RFC [1], summarizing the status of all Internet
protocol and service specifications.
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... create and publish
standards documents for network protocols and services. When these
external specifications play an important role in the Internet ...
... ISO, IEEE, and ITU-T, develop a variety of protocol and service
specifications that are similar to Technical Specifications
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