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

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 12 May 2011 15:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793
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On 5/11/2011 10:17 PM, SM wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> At 17:05 11-05-2011, Joe Touch wrote:
>> Paradoxically, I-Ds do already include a similar statement:
>>
>> The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
>> http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.
>>
>> The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
>> http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
>>
>> Pity we don't include that sort of thing in the RFCs too...
>
>  From the "Status of This Memo" section of RFC 5741:
>
> "Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
> and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5741."
>
> Regards,
> -sm

Sure - but you get to that link only from the rfc-editor.org site, at 
which point you've probably already gotten the free RFCs.

What's missing is this sort of statement - more specifically, a pointer 
to the rfc-editor.org copy of the *doc* (not just info on the doc) 
within the doc itself.

Joe

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