On 2008-01-19 13:05, Ken Raeburn wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008, at 18:55, Willie Gillespie wrote: >> As someone new to the IETF, how should I go about doing the following? >> >> I want to find some information about IMAP and its extensions. Let's >> say I found RFC 1730. How would I know that it had been obsoleted by >> RFC 2060 and then by RFC 3501? How do I find the extensions? I don't >> necessarily want to search through a list of 5000 entries to find what I >> want. > > The RFC repository also has rfc-index.txt, which lists all the RFCs, and > for each, other RFCs that update or replace them, or are updated or > replaced by them. That'd be a good place to start. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html presents the information that is implicit in rfc-index in a more digestible form. Brian _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf