Protocol Action: 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' to BCP (draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-09.txt)

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' to BCP (draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-09.txt)
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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels'
  (draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-09.txt) as a BCP

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group.

The IESG contact person is Jari Arkko.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-housley-two-maturity-levels/




Technical Summary

   This is a process change wrt IETF RFC maturity levels.

Working Group Summary

   This matter has been under controversial discussion for
   a number of years. This document attempts to find a
   compromise position by making a small change that
   the authors believe is an improvement, but does not
   attempt to make a major overhaul of the IETF RFC
   classification system.

Document Quality

   Document has received significant review and comment.

Personnel

   The responsible Area Director is Jari Arkko.