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Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Mon, 09 May 2011 01:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793
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On May 8, 2011, at 7:44 58PM, John Levine wrote:

> 
> Today if you're an IEEE type, and you wonder where to find RFC 793, or
> you're wondering what RFC 793 is about, and you look it up in IEEE
> Xplore, the online library that all electrical engineers use, and that
> their employers have site subscriptions for, you'll find ... nothing.
> Yes, you can find it in Google, but Google isn't a particularly good
> place to look for engineering papers.  Xplore is.  RFCs aren't in the
> ACM Digital Library, either, same problem.

Nor is it in Google Scholar, which is generally where I look first.


		--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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