Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There seem to be someone believing that standard documents should be > treated as software. Standards are not software. Standards do not > improve if everyone is allowed to modify them and publish the modified > version as an updated version of the standard. Standards get their > value from having a rigid procedure for updates and modifications. > Software do not.
RFCs are not standards. The IETF process is not a standardization process in the traditional sense. Part of the Internet's success story is the intertwining of software development and de-facto standardization. From this point of view, RFCs are much more like software than traditional standards.
