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+Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) J. Halpern, Ed.
+Request for Comments: 8789 Ericsson
+BCP: 9 E. Rescorla, Ed.
+Updates: 2026 Mozilla
+Category: Best Current Practice June 2020
+ISSN: 2070-1721
+
+
+ IETF Stream Documents Require IETF Rough Consensus
+
+Abstract
+
+ This document requires that the IETF never publish any IETF Stream
+ RFCs without IETF rough consensus. This updates RFC 2026.
+
+Status of This Memo
+
+ This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice.
+
+ This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
+ (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
+ received public review and has been approved for publication by the
+ Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
+ BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
+
+ Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
+ and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
+ https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8789.
+
+Copyright Notice
+
+ Copyright (c) 2020 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
+ document authors. All rights reserved.
+
+ This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
+ Provisions Relating to IETF Documents
+ (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of
+ publication of this document. Please review these documents
+ carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect
+ to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must
+ include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of
+ the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as
+ described in the Simplified BSD License.
+
+Table of Contents
+
+ 1. Introduction
+ 2. Terminology
+ 3. Action
+ 4. Discussion
+ 5. IANA Considerations
+ 6. Security Considerations
+ 7. Normative References
+ 8. Informative References
+ Authors' Addresses
+
+1. Introduction
+
+ IETF procedures, as defined by [RFC2026], allow for Informational or
+ Experimental RFCs to be published without IETF rough consensus. For
+ context, it should be remembered that this RFC predates the
+ separation of the various streams (e.g., IRTF, IAB, and Independent.)
+ When it was written, there were only "RFCs".
+
+ As a consequence, the IESG was permitted to approve an Internet-Draft
+ for publication as an RFC without IETF rough consensus.
+
+2. Terminology
+
+ The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
+ "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
+ "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
+ 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
+ capitals, as shown here.
+
+3. Action
+
+ The IETF MUST NOT publish RFCs on the IETF Stream without
+ establishing IETF rough consensus for publication.
+
+4. Discussion
+
+ The IETF procedures prior to publication of this BCP permitted such
+ informational or experimental publication without IETF rough
+ consensus. In 2007, the IESG issued a statement saying that no
+ document will be issued without first conducting an IETF Last Call
+ [IESG-STATE-AD]. While this apparently improved the situation, when
+ looking more closely, it made it worse. Rather than publishing
+ documents without verifying that there is rough consensus, as the
+ wording in [RFC2026] suggests, this had the IESG explicitly
+ publishing documents on the IETF Stream that have failed to achieve
+ rough consensus.
+
+ One could argue that there is a need for publishing some documents
+ that the community cannot agree on. However, we have an explicit
+ path for such publication, namely the Independent Stream. Or, for
+ research documents, the IRTF Stream, which explicitly publishes
+ minority opinion Informational RFCs.
+
+5. IANA Considerations
+
+ This document has no IANA actions.
+
+6. Security Considerations
+
+ This document introduces no new security considerations. It is a
+ process document about changes to the rules for certain corner cases
+ in publishing IETF Stream RFCs. However, this procedure will prevent
+ publication of IETF Stream documents that have not reached rough
+ consensus about their security aspects, thus potentially improving
+ security aspects of IETF Stream documents.
+
+7. Normative References
+
+ [RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision
+ 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, DOI 10.17487/RFC2026, October 1996,
+ <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2026>.
+
+ [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
+ DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
+ <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
+
+ [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
+ 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
+ May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
+
+8. Informative References
+
+ [IESG-STATE-AD]
+ IESG, "Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents",
+ IESG Statement, March 2007,
+ <https://ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/area-
+ director-sponsoring-documents/>.
+
+Authors' Addresses
+
+ Joel Halpern (editor)
+ Ericsson
+ P.O. Box 6049
+ Leesburg, VA 20178
+ United States of America
+
+ Email: joel.halpern@ericsson.com
+
+
+ Eric Rescorla (editor)
+ Mozilla
+ 331 E. Evelyn Ave.
+ Mountain View, CA 94101
+ United States of America
+
+ Email: ekr@rtfm.com