Version Numbering Scheme for ESDS RFC's

The SPG have formalized the numbering scheme for submission and publishing of Request for Comment(RFC) related documents. All versions of the RFC document shall follow the following convention:

ESDS-RFC-NNNvX[.YY]

Where:

NNN represents the three-digit RFC number assigned by the SPG to new RFC documents.

The three digits following the letter v encapsulate the version numbers of the document.

The first digit (X) represents the major number, which is expected to change infrequently while the last two optional digits (YY) represent the minor version numbers, which will change in monotonically ascending order with every revision of the document, while the document is undergoing revision.

Major and minor numbers (if present) are separated by a single period (.). Final official releases shall not have minor release numbers.

All major releases starting with the digit 0 shall be deemed to represent the editorial phase or development phase. This phase shall have a mandatory two-digit minor version number that shall be updated at the discretion of the RFC Editor.

All other non-zero major releases shall be deemed to represent the published phase or stable phase. The major release number shall be updated in the event of editorial changes to an already published document. This phase shall not contain minor version numbers.

For example:

  • ESDS-RFC-004v0.01.doc #editorial phase, first version received from RFC Author
  • ESDS-RFC-004v0.10.doc #editorial phase, version 10 of the document
  • ESDS-RFC-004v1.pdf # published phase, major release 1
  • ESDS-RFC-004v2.pdf # published phase, major release 2

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