[vertex-four]

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.

[mwcremer]

Actually, they do become standards:

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

[vertex-four]

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