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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