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Re: [rfc-i] Example RFC numbers?

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 22 August 2023 21:52 UTC

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On 23-Aug-23 00:31, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2023-08-21, at 22:40, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Amen to that. The leading zeros have always seemed like an odd choice
>> to me, almost as if they were designed for the punched card era of
>> computing. Are they used anywhere except the RFC index?
> 
> In RFCs, I find (*) about 4000 three-digit RFCnnn constructs, and about 9000 RFC0nnn constructs.  Yes, they are in use in our documents.

Oh, groan. Especially, we apparently chose to use them for DOIs. So RFC-processing software is stuck with this for ever.

      Brian

> 
> BTW, RFCnnn (counting occurrences, not documents):
> 
> 1278 RFC822 Mail message format
>   473 RFC791 IP
>   472 RFC793 TCP
>   219 RFC792 ICMP
>   199 RFC826 ARP
>   191 RFC768 UDP
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
> (*) non-scientific
> 
> .

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