An RFC is an RFC when it is an RFC (Was: Question Re: best practices)

[Daniel Roesen]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:39:54AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> To the general public "RFC" is shorthand for an RFC Standard, they do
> not distinguish between an RFC Draft or an RFC Standard

There is nothing like an "RFC Draft". Your confusing a convenience link
displayed by tools.ietf.org ontop of a published RFC text with a "draft"
designation. You will notice that basically every RFC published in the
last $NOTSOSMALLNUM years will show that link to the source draft when
looking at the RFC via tools.ietf.org/html/

Regards,
Daniel

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