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Re: "Internet Standard (STD)" - phrase known by Web programmers ?
Subject:Re: "Internet Standard (STD)" - phrase known by Web programmers ? From:Sandy Harris <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 23 May 2012 16:12:31 +0800
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Lee Fisher <blibbet -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I also rarely see the term STD refering to IETF, it's about as uncommon as
> IETF FYIs or BCPs. And I'm on dozens of IETF mailing lists. :-)
I'm only on a couple of those, but also on various other technical lists.
I've never seen "STD" referring to an IETF document. People usually
just cite the RFC.
You do get references to a "standards track RFC" and the stages
"draft standard", "proposed standard" and "standard", but those
are fairly rare and "STD" is unknown to me in this context.
I fairly often see "IETF BCP" for the Best Current Practices
documents, but even those are usually cited by RFC number.
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