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RE: History behind RFC numbers

Hosnieh Rafiee <hosnieh.rafiee@huawei.com> Mon, 29 September 2014 12:08 UTC

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From: Hosnieh Rafiee <hosnieh.rafiee@huawei.com>
To: "Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: History behind RFC numbers
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Thank you Andy!
Best,
Hosnieh
From: Andrew G. Malis [mailto:agmalis@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 1:57 PM
To: Hosnieh Rafiee
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Subject: Re: History behind RFC numbers

Hosnieh,

I suggest you read:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/RFCoverview.html

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2555.txt

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcfaq.html

There is also an email list to discuss details of the RFC series, which is rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org<mailto:rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org> . You can join the list and read the archives at https://www.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-interest .

Cheers,
Andy


On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Hosnieh Rafiee <hosnieh.rafiee@huawei.com<mailto:hosnieh.rafiee@huawei.com>> wrote:
Hi,
Anybody knows the history behind RFC numbers. How it started and which document explained this. Sometimes I see it is not a sequential numbers for new RFCs.
Thanks
Best,
Hosnieh

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