Editing Internet Standard (section)

===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<ref name="ietf,rfc 2026,section 6.1">{{Cite IETF |last=Bradner|first=S.|date=October 1996|title=The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3 |rfc=2026 |sectionname=Standards Actions |section=6.1 |doi=10.17487/rfc2026 }}</ref> 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 <nowiki>RFC 6410</nowiki><ref name="ietf,rfc 6410,section 2.2"/> are satisfied; or, after two years since <nowiki>RFC 6410</nowiki> was approved as BCP (October 2013), the [[Internet Engineering Steering Group|IESG]] can choose to reclassify an old ''Draft Standard'' as ''Proposed Standard''.<ref name="ietf,rfc 6410,section 2.3">{{cite ietf| title=Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels| rfc=6410|sectionname= Transition to a Standards Track with Two Maturity Levels |section= 2.3 | author1=Russell Housley| author2=Dave Crocker| author3=Eric W. Burger| date=11 October 2011| publisher=[[Internet Engineering Task Force|IETF]]}}</ref>