• RFCs

  Memos in the Requests for Comments (RFC) document series contain technical and organizational notes about the Internet.

• Internet-Drafts

  Internet-Drafts are working documents of the IETF, its areas, and its Working Groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.

• IANA

  The global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources is performed as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.

• Intellectual property rights

  The IETF standards process provides a mechanism for filing disclosures regarding Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).

• Standards process

  The process of creating an Internet Standard is straightforward: a specification undergoes a period of development and several iterations of review by the Internet community and revision based upon experience.