Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the here-is-our-history dept.
Armin writes "Thirty years ago today, the first Request for Comments document, RFC 1, was published at UCLA.
RFC 2555
contains history and reflections on the Request for Comments (RFC) document
series, and the people who made it possible, on its 30th anniversary."
Thanks again Jon.
To follow up the other posts here, yes RFC is a Request for comment. That is, as one who is authoring a number of them, you go through a whole draft stage (I've seen some in the double digit range of draft revisions) that get commented on. Then, at some stage that goes to be an experimental RFC. After more hacking (remember that running code rules in the world of the IETF) it may become informational or standard. At these stages the new RFC outdates the old RFC, again asking for more comments.
Rarely is a single RFC sufficient to generate a standard on. They are always updated by later ones. Even the old standards like Telnet has some thirty odd RFCs associated with it (last time I looked, including the April 1 variants).
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To follow up the other posts here, yes RFC is a Request for comment. That is, as one who is authoring a number of them, you go through a whole draft stage (I've seen some in the double digit range of draft revisions) that get commented on. Then, at some stage that goes to be an experimental RFC. After more hacking (remember that running code rules in the world of the IETF) it may become informational or standard. At these stages the new RFC outdates the old RFC, again asking for more comments.
Rarely is a single RFC sufficient to generate a standard on. They are always updated by later ones. Even the old standards like Telnet has some thirty odd RFCs associated with it (last time I looked, including the April 1 variants).
Life is complete only for brief intervals in between toys or projects -- John Dalton