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Ian Cooper <ian@the-coopers.org> Wed, 18 August 2004 08:24 UTC

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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:15:38 +0100
From: Ian Cooper <ian@the-coopers.org>
To: Bob Braden <braden@ISI.EDU>
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--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).

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