Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
Having an RFC makes it an Internet standard
As stated in FAQ #3 at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcfaq.html, this is not actually true. It is an extremely widely-spread misconception.
An RFC is an Internet standard if and only if the RFC actually says so. Take, for example, RFC 854 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc854.html): it states explicitly at the top that it is an Internet standard. In contrast, RFC 2549 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html) specifically mentions that "It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind." Now, in the case of that latter RFC this is not much of a surprise (it's one of numerous April Fool's jokes among the RFCs), but it may come as a surprise to a great many people that the same sentence is contained in the PNG RFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2083.html
Greetings, Timwi