RE: List of standards

Actually if you knew what it meant but weren't that familiar with the place
of an RFC(someone who's read 2 specs or something) you would assume IMHO
that an "Internet Standard" is NOT a "request for comments". 

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From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Glen
Zorn
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:31 AM
To: 'Ian Cooper'; 'Bob Braden'
Cc: ietf@ietf.org
Subject: RE: List of standards

ietf-bounces@ietf.org <mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org> writes:

> --On 17 August 2004 09:20 -0700 Bob Braden <braden@ISI.EDU> wrote:
> 
>>   *> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>   *>
>>   *> Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find?   *>
>>   *> It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page 
>> at
>>   *> www.ietf.org, but that's certainly not the case. (Try to find it 
>> and
>>   *> see what I mean.)
>>   *>
>> 
>> It's not hard to find, actually. Try:
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html
> 
> Seems to me one needs to know a lot about the differences between 
> what's hosted by the IETF and the RFC Editor sites in order to know 
> that for the material in question the user needs to go to the RFC 
> Editor site (and then on to the "RFC Database" rather than any of the 
> other options).

Actually, there is a link on the IETF home page to "RFC Pages", so it sems
that one would really only need to be familiar w/the "RFC" acronym.
Is that too much to ask?

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Hope this helps,

~gwz

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