!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is defined in [RFC 1796]

The "[Request For Comments]" ([{$pagename}]) document series is the official publication channel for [Internet] [standards] documents and __other publications__ of the [IESG], [IAB], and [Internet] [Community of Interest].  From time to time, and about every six months in the last few years, someone questions the rationality of publishing both [Internet Standards] and [informational] documents as [RFCs].  The argument is generally that this introduces some confusion between "real [standards]" and "mere publications".

[Request For Comment] are Classified by:
* [RFC Status]
* [RFC Sub-series]

It is a regrettably well spread misconception that publication as an [RFC] provides some level of recognition.  It does not, or at least not any more than the publication in a regular journal.  In fact, each [RFC] has a [RFC Status], relative to its relation with the Internet standardization process.

This [RFC Status] is reproduced on the first page of the each [{$pagename}] itself, and is also documented in the periodic "[Internet Official Protocol Standards]" [RFC 5000] ([STD 1]).  But this status is sometimes omitted from quotes and references, which may feed the confusion.

There are two important sources of information on the status of the Internet standards:  
* they are summarized periodically in an RFC entitled "[Internet Official Protocol Standards]" 
* documented in the "[STD]" [RFC Sub-series].  
When a [specification] has been adopted as an [Internet Standard], it is given the additional label "[STD] xxxx", but it keeps its [RFC] number and its place in the [RFC] series.

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