RFC 2555 on 30 Years of RFCs

RFC Editor <rfc-ed@ISI.EDU> Wed, 07 April 1999 20:15 UTC

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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.


        RFC 2555: 

        Title:	    30 Years of RFCs
	Author(s):  RFC Editor, et al.
        Status:     Informational
	Date:       7 April 1999
        Mailbox:    braden@isi.edu, jkrey@isi.edu, crocker@mbl.edu,
		    vcerf@mci.net, feinler@juno.com, celeste@isi.edu
        Pages:      18
        Characters: 42902
        Updates/Obsoletes/See Also: None  
        I-D Tag:    none

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2555.txt


History and reflections on the Request for Comments (RFC) document
series, and the people who made it possible, on its 30th anniversary.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
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