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A Request for Comments (RFC) document is one of a series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities.
The RFC series of documents on networking began in 1969 as part of the original ARPA wide area networking (ARPANET) project. Today, it is the official publication channel for the Internet Engineering Steering Group, Internet Architecture Board, and the broader Internet community. RFCs cover many topics in addition to Internet Standards, such as introductions to new research ideas and status memos about the Internet.
RFCs are published by the RFC Editor who is under the general direction of the IAB. Once published and issued a number, an RFC is never canceled or depublished; it is simply superseded by the publication of a new one. To determine which RFCs are actually active Internet standards and which ones have been superseded, one must consult the official list, Internet Standard 1 (STD 1), which itself is republished regularly as an RFC.
RFCs can be obtained on the Internet from http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html or many other sites, using anonymous FTP, gopher, and other Internet document-retrieval systems.
Every RFC is available as ASCII text and may be available in other formats, depending on the author. The definitive version of any standards-track specifications is always the ASCII version.
A complete RFC index in text format is available from the IETF website. Any published RFC can be directly found by appending the number to the URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc#.txt. Replace # with the RFC number. See also this link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ .
The RFCs are produced in a process that is different from that used in formal standards organizations such as ANSI. They can be floated by technical experts acting on their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large. Practically speaking, standards-track RFCs are usually produced by experts participating in working groups which first publish what the IETF calls Internet-Drafts; this facilitates initial rounds of review before documents become RFCs.
The RFC tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact standard writing done by individuals or small working groups has important advantages over the more formal, committee-driven process typical of ANSI or ISO.
Emblematic of some of these advantages is the existence of a flourishing tradition of joke RFCsEvery April 1st since 1989, the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous RFC documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC titled ARPAWOCKY . List RFC 527 ARPAWOCKY R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973; a Lewis Carroll. Usually at least one a year is published, usually on April Fool's DayThe first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. Mark Twain April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day is a notable day, though not of its own right a holiday, celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is celebrated by.
The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work - they manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to truly worldwide proportions.
For more details about RFCs and the RFC process, see RFC 2026, "The Internet Standards Process, Revision 3".
RFC 1, entitled "Host Software", was written by Steve CrockerSteve Crocker is the author of several Request for Comments documents, including the very first RFC, and the April Fool's RFC 1776. He was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles. External links . from the University of California, Los AngelesThe University of California, Los Angeles popularly known as UCLA is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of Westwood within the City of Los Angeles. It is the second-oldest campus of the University of California as well as the, and published on April 7April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). There are 268 days remaining. Events 529 first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I 1348 Char, 1969.
The initial RFCs were apparently typewritten and circulated on hard copy among the ARPA researchers. Once ARPANET was fully functional by December 1969, subsequent RFCs were drafted and circulated over the network.
Douglas EngelbartEngelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor, of Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse; as a pioneer of human-computer interaction, whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors t's Augmentation Research Center at SRISRI is an acronym, a TLA. It can standard for a number of terms including: Swiss Radio International A number of research institutes, such as: Stanford Research Institute now SRI International Space Research Institute Silsoe Research Institute serotonin r was the first Network Information Center as well as one of the first two nodes on the network (the other was UCLA). The sociologist Thierry Bardini has pointed out that ARC personnel authored a large number of the early RFCs.One advantage of the tradition of never depublishing obsolete RFCs is that they form a continuous historical record of the evolution of Internet standards. Attorneys will notice that this is roughly analogous to the tradition in common law countries (including the U.S., where the Internet was born) of never depublishing case opinions, but instead overruling them with new ones.
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