Re: what is the status of the SSL informational RFC I sent you?

Paul Mockapetris <pvm@isi.edu> Fri, 17 March 1995 00:04 UTC

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To: Steve Coya <scoya@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
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Subject: Re: what is the status of the SSL informational RFC I sent you?
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From: Paul Mockapetris <pvm@isi.edu>

> Jeff,
> 
> >> Publish SSL as an information RFC (let me spell that RRRRR FFFFF
> >> CCCCC). They can then point people at it and claim that it will soon
> >> be a full Internet standard.
> 
> The IESG has the option of adding text to the cover/front page of an RFC.

Precisely.  If they want to publish an informational RFC, then we need
some text that says that this RFC is published for informational and
historical use only, and that the standards track is elsewhere.

paul
 
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