On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 02:50:22PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote: > > Including IAB, IRTF and other non-IETF bodies which also publish RFCs? > > Only the IETF stream can publish standards-track docs, so maybe those keywords are less important? Well, that's.. funny because per Barry the intent was to not imply that only Standards Track documents could use BCP 14. We traded the appearance of implication that BCP 14 is for standards track docs for the appearance of implication that BCP 14 is for IETF docs only. > > It wasn't clear which kind of definition of IETF was used in this text. > > I guess the intent was to include these IETF-related entitites too. > > I don’t think so. The IETF stream doesn’t make policy about other > streams, it’s up to those streams to pick them up, in this case > probably on a per-document basis. Is there a rule somewhere that IETF documents (at least on the standards track) MUST reference BCP 14? Nico --
