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Re:The GNU Name System IETF Draft by csperkins on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:20AM (#23770107)
> > Anyone can write an internet draft. Getting concensus on it is the hard part. > Not really. RFCs in the Informational category don't need consensus:[1]

In practice, that's not been true for many years. The process was recently clarified: "IETF Stream Documents Require IETF Rough Consensus" https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8789.html

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Re:The GNU Name System IETF Draft by eqvinox on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:33PM (#23773931)
Oh, Thanks for the pointer! "published: June 2020" — no kidding with the "recently" :)
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