Re: List of standards

Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> Wed, 18 August 2004 12:34 UTC

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From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 14:24:41 +0200
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On 18-aug-04, at 13:15, Spencer Dawkins wrote:

> I think the intent of Iljitsch's note was that the "list of IETF
> Standards" should appear in an obvious place (labeled "IETF
> Standards") on http://www.ietf.org/ - if the label points to
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html, that's fine.

Right.

There seems to be significant dissatisfaction about the fact that the 
general public doesn't know about the difference between RFCs and 
internet standards. I think a good deal of this ignorance is due the 
invisibility of the standards list. (Google only lists 43 links to the 
standards list, while the RFCs at www.ietf.org get 800, even though 
this isn't their official home.)

(And me not being able to find the list without help from Google isn't 
a good sign either. And yes, I did check the RFC Editor site but the 
links were too non-obvious.)


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