Editing Internet Standard (section)

===Proposed Standard===
RFC 2026 originally characterized Proposed Standards as immature specifications, but this stance was annulled by RFC 7127.<ref>{{cite IETF |title=Characterization of Proposed Standards |rfc=7127 |sectionname=Characterization of Specifications |section=3 |date=January 2014 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |access-date=March 11, 2016}}</ref>

A ''Proposed Standard'' specification is stable, has resolved known design choices, has received significant community review, and appears to enjoy enough community interest to be considered valuable. Usually, neither implementation nor operational experience is required for the designation of a specification as a Proposed Standard.

Proposed Standards are of such quality that implementations can be deployed in the Internet. However, as with all technical specifications, Proposed Standards may be revised if problems are found or better solutions are identified, when experiences with deploying implementations of such technologies at scale is gathered.

Many Proposed Standards are actually deployed on the Internet and used extensively, as stable protocols. Actual practice has been that full progression through the sequence of standards levels is typically quite rare, and most popular IETF protocols remain at Proposed Standard.<ref>{{cite IETF |title=Characterization of Proposed Standards |rfc=7127 |sectionname=IETF Review of Proposed Standards |section=2 |date=January 2014 |publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]] |access-date=March 11, 2016}}</ref>