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Draft standard
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Internet Standard.
Draft Standard
In October 2011, RFC 6410 merged the second and third maturity levels into one Internet Standard. Existing older Draft Standards retain that classification, absent explicit actions. For old Draft Standards two possible actions are available, which must be approved by the IESG: A Draft Standard may be reclassified as an Internet Standard as soon as the criteria in RFC 6410 are satisfied; or, after two years since RFC 6410 was approved as BCP (October 2013), the IESG can choose to reclassify an old Draft Standard as Proposed Standard.