RFC 9592: Retiring the Tao of the IETF
rfc-editor.orgIt seems like a good move. The Tao was a big single document with heavyweight edit/revision burden, which probably made more sense when it was updated by publishing a new RFC, as if it were a print publication.
This looks to be the replacement, a website area with topic-oriented pages: https://www.ietf.org/participate/
references https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6722