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RE: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Wed, 11 May 2011 13:09 UTC

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>   (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.
>
> Unless I am mistaken, RFCs aren't IEEE publications.

Indeed they aren't but "publishing partners" offers a lot of leeway.

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John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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