Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ttsda 3010 days ago
RFC 7710 is only a proposed standard.

It has been implemented on a few captive portal solutions[1] but as far as I know it is not understood by any client software.

[1] https://github.com/coova/coova-chilli/pull/274

1 comments

RFCs are never anything other than proposed standards, or informational documents. There is no point at which an RFC becomes a “recommended standard” or some such thing.

All internet standards, from IP to HTTP, are proposed standards, it doesn’t actually mean anything about whether they’re generally implemented or not.

Actually, they do become standards:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards#IS

OH yeah, that started happening recently, I forgot about that.