Actually if you knew what it meant but weren't that familiar with the place of an RFC(someone who's read 2 specs or something) you would assume IMHO that an "Internet Standard" is NOT a "request for comments". -----Original Message----- From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glen Zorn Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:31 AM To: 'Ian Cooper'; 'Bob Braden' Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: RE: List of standards ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx <mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx> writes: > --On 17 August 2004 09:20 -0700 Bob Braden <braden@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> *> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@xxxxxxxxx> *> >> *> Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? *> >> *> It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page >> at >> *> www.ietf.org, but that's certainly not the case. (Try to find it >> and >> *> see what I mean.) >> *> >> >> It's not hard to find, actually. Try: >> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html > > Seems to me one needs to know a lot about the differences between > what's hosted by the IETF and the RFC Editor sites in order to know > that for the material in question the user needs to go to the RFC > Editor site (and then on to the "RFC Database" rather than any of the > other options). Actually, there is a link on the IETF home page to "RFC Pages", so it sems that one would really only need to be familiar w/the "RFC" acronym. Is that too much to ask? > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf Hope this helps, ~gwz "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither..." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." -- Voltaire _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf