Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document

RFC 2026 and its predecessors call for the publication of an RFC describing the status of IETF protocols: The status of Internet protocol and service specifications is summarized periodically in an RFC entitled "Internet Official Protocol Standards" [1]. This RFC shows the level of maturity and other helpful information for each Internet protocol or service specification (see section 3). The "Internet Official Protocol Standards" document, now as RFC 5000, has always been listed in the Internet Standard series as STD 1. However, the document has not been kept up to date in recent years, and it has fallen out of use in favor of the online list produced by the RFC Editor . The IETF no longer sees the need for the document to be maintained. Therefore, this document updates RFC 2026, effectively removing the above mentioned paragraph from section 2.1 that defines the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" RFC. Additionally, this document obsoletes RFC 5000, the current incarnation of that document, and requests that the IESG move that document (and therefore STD 1) to Historic status.