Hello: I would like to suggest that the coming RFC-2600 will be the last STD-1 in RFC form. The RFC publication system -- invented by graduated students, developed with the 1970s technology -- should sooner or later be fading away. Therefore, it would be better to maintain a up to the minute standard list. Having said, it is still not clear about who is in charge of monitoring the maturity of the Internet Standard Process after the 1992 new world order. It is not the IAB anymore, however is it the IESG or the Area Director(s) or is it the RFC Editor(s) ? Second, STD-2 has already unofficially evolved. So why not obsoleting RFC-1700 and replace it to http://www.iana.org/numbers.html ? Third, yet another "living document" is FYI-17 "The Tao" which is currently still RFC-1718, but http://www.ietf.org/tao.html is more up to date. tabe, -- - Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim VLSM-TJT -- http://www.vlsm.org/rms46/ - - My PC is worm. I think our firewall is acting up - Dilbert's Boss
