Re: [rfc-i] RFCs now updated in ACM Digital Library

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

Alexis,

Thanks, that is what I was looking for.

Bob


> On Jan 10, 2023, at 3:55 PM, Alexis Rossi <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Great idea, Bob!
> 
> There are definitely more places with copies of RFCs. These are some of the ones we either have a partnership with or at least know about:
> 
> 	• Computer History Museum - archiving agreement, RFCs updated once per year
> 	• National Library of Sweden - archiving agreement, but having trouble contacting them (so if anyone has a contact there, let me know!)
> 	• ACM Digital Library [1] - independent, updated periodically throughout the year
> 	• Nanjing University [2] - independent, seems to be kept very up to date
> 	• Wayback Machine - independent, seems to stay up to date, have not audited for completeness
> 	• Princeton [3] - independent, last updated Sep 2022
> 	• Internet FAQ Archives [4] - independent, seems to have stopped updating in 2019
> 
> Also I’ve seen some businesses have mirrors, like Muonics [5] which is a couple months out of date, and Ripe [6] which stopped updating in 2020.
> 
> If anybody knows of more of these, please do let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexis
> 
> 
> [1] https://dl.acm.org/browse/rfc
> [2] https://mirrors.nju.edu.cn/rfc/
> [3] https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/RFCs/
> [4] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/
> [5] https://www.muonics.com/rfc/
> [6] https://ftp.ripe.net/mirrors/rfc/
> 
>> On Jan 5, 2023, at 9:44 AM, Bob Hinden <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> Alexis,
>> 
>> Good to hear!
>> 
>> Perhaps you could summarize all of the places that the RFC Editor has worked to have the RFC series archived.   I didn’t see anything about this on the RFC Editor web site.   I think it used to be at the Computer History Museum and some libraries, but don’t remember the specifics.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 4, 2023, at 5:15 PM, Alexis Rossi <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> One of the best long term preservation strategies is to have multiple copies of documents stored with different organizations. To that end, I’ve been looking for additional homes for RFCs. Also, for access I think it’s great to have the RFCs in places where people are doing other types of research already.
>>> 
>>> The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library had some RFCs, but they had not been updated since 2004. Fortunately, they were quite interested in bringing that collection up to date, so they are now current and will be updating their collection periodically through the year.
>>> 
>>> Better preservation, more access! Yay!
>>> 
>>> Alexis
>>> 
>>> [1] https://dl.acm.org/browse/rfc?startPage=0&sortBy=EpubDate_desc
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