RFC-RFCSTD-0004                                                  Appendix B
Category: Standards Track                                       References

Appendix B: References

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Normative References

These standards MUST be followed when authoring BCP RFCs.

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119

[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, May 2017. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8174

Informative References

These references provide background and context for the BCP kind design.

IETF Best Current Practice

[IETF-BCP] IETF, "Best Current Practices Index". https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bcp

The IETF BCP document series, established in 1995, documents operational guidelines for internet infrastructure. Key BCPs that informed this design:

• BCP 9 (RFC 2026): The Internet Standards Process
• BCP 14 (RFC 2119, RFC 8174): RFC 2119 Keywords
• BCP 38 (RFC 2827): Network Ingress Filtering

The IETF BCP model demonstrates:

• SHOULD/RECOMMENDED over MUST for operational practices
• Evolution of practices over time
• Community consensus approach

[RFC2026] Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP 9, RFC 2026, October 1996. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026.html

Defines the IETF document categories including Best Current Practice. Section 5 specifically describes BCP documents.

Operational Practices

[SRE-BOOK] Beyer, B., Jones, C., Petoff, J., Murphy, N.R., "Site Reliability Engineering", O'Reilly Media, 2016. https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/

Google's SRE book documents operational practices that influenced the BCP format, particularly:

• Incident response procedures
• On-call practices
• Change management guidelines

[PRAGMATIC-RFC] Orosz, G., "Software Engineering RFC and Design Docs", The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/software-engineering-rfc-and-design

Industry analysis of how technology companies document operational practices and guidelines.

Internal References

[RFC-RFCSTD-0001] Platform Engineering, "RFC Kind: Standards", RFC-RFCSTD-0001 v1.1.0. docs/standards/rfc-kinds/standards/RFC-RFCSTD-0001/

[RFC-RFCSTD-0002] Platform Engineering, "RFC Kind: Architecture", RFC-RFCSTD-0002 v1.1.0. docs/standards/rfc-kinds/architecture/RFC-RFCSTD-0002/

[RFC-RFCSTD-0003] Platform Engineering, "RFC Kind: Specification", RFC-RFCSTD-0003 v1.1.0. docs/standards/rfc-kinds/specification/RFC-RFCSTD-0003/

[RFC-STANDARDS] Platform Engineering, "RFC Authoring Standards". docs/standards/rfcs.md

[RFC-KIND-REGISTRY] Platform Engineering, "RFC Kind Registry". docs/standards/rfc-kind-registry.md

Version History

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