Re: Questions about BCPs and WGs

["Andrew G. Malis" <[e-mail]>]

Jacob,

A "BCP" is one of several types of RFC. BCPs are used to document a "Best
Current Practice" in the IETF or the Internet. They are described in
section 5 of https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2026 .

The "Network Working Group" was the historical original source of RFCs
prior to the IETF. The "Network Working Group" attribution in RFCs was kept
for many years in the IETF as a sort of homage. Lately, as you've noticed,
it's been updated to "IETF".

As others have noted, you should bring up this discussion on "[e-mail]".

But you picked the right first place to ask!

Cheers,
Andy


On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 1:17 PM Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi IETF folks,
>
> I have a few questions about IETF processes that I hope you all can
> answer. I'm coming at these questions as someone who has participated in
> a number of WGs, co-authored one RFC and one RFC-to-be, but still
> doesn't fully understand the processes.
>
> I'm looking at BCP 190 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp190). How do I
> figure out which WG this document was developed in? It doesn't have a
> working group listed in the header, nor does the corresponding RFC
> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7320).
>
> Also, what's the difference between a BCP and an RFC?
>
> If I look at the document that BCP 190 Updates
> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986) it lists the "Network Working
> Group." What is that? I don't see it listed under
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/.
>
> In general, if I want to discuss amendments to BCP 190, what mailing
> list would I use to start that conversation?
>
> Thanks,
> Jacob
>
>