Internet-Draft S. Ginoza Category: Informational RFC Editor January 2013 Retiring the RFC Summary Documents draft-rfced-rfcxx99-retired-00 Abstract Beginning in December 1991, a "Request for Comments Summary" was published every 100 RFCs. RFC numbers ending with 99 were reserved for these summary documents. This document retires the publication of the RFC summary documents. Moving forward, RFC numbers ending in 99 will be assigned to RFCs-to-be. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on July 7, 2013. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 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 (http://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. Ginoza Informational [Page 1] Internet-Draft Retiring the RFC Summary Documents January 2013 1. Introduction In December 1991, RFC 1099 [RFC1099] was the first "Request for Comments Summary" RFC published. It provides a list of document titles, authors, date of publication, and abstracts for each of the RFCs published in the range 1000 - 1099. Since that time, though the time that RFC 3299 [RFC3299] was pubished, a new summary RFC was published every 100 RFCs, and RFC numbers ending with 99 were reserved for these summary documents. RFC 3399 was never published (for various reasons), though RFCs 3499 [RFC3499] and 3599 [RFC3599] were. RFC 3599 was the last of these summary documents to be published. Since the last summary document was published, the RFC Editor has not received any complaints regarding the summary documents not being available (other than a request to officially declare that the summary documents will not longer be published). Additionaly, RFC abstracts are available using the RFC search engine. These documents are not currently filling an Internet community need; therefore, this document retires the publication of the RFC summary documents. RFC numbers ending in 99 may be assigned to RFCs-to-be moving forward. 2. Cleaning Up RFC Editor Data As part of the cleanup related to retiring the summary documents, the RFC Editor will mark RFC 3399 as "never issued". Additionally, numbers ending in 99 through RFC 6799 will be marked as "never issued". Moving forward, RFC numbers typically reserved for these documents (i.e., those numbers ending with 99) may be assigned to future RFCs. 3. IANA Considerations This document does not request any IANA actions. 4. Security Considerations This document does not impact the security of the Internet. 5. Informative References [RFC1099] Reynolds, J., "Request for Comments Summary: RFC Numbers 1000-1099", RFC 1099, December 1991. [RFC3299] Ginoza, S., "Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3200-3299", RFC 3299, December 2003. Ginoza Informational [Page 2] Internet-Draft Retiring the RFC Summary Documents January 2013 [RFC3499] Ginoza, S., "Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3400-3499", RFC 3499, December 2003. [RFC3599] Ginoza, S., "Request for Comments Summary RFC Numbers 3500-3599", RFC 3599, December 2003. Author's Address Sandy Ginoza RFC Production Center Association Management Solutions 48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117 Fremont, CA 94538 United States Phone: +1 (510) 492-4000 EMail: sginoza@amsl.com Ginoza Informational [Page 3]