If only there were some uniform resource locator system, whereby we could use a string to both identify and locate such a document, and include such a string *in* our specifications. A pipe dream, I know... On 09/05/2011, at 10:41 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > > On May 8, 2011, at 7:44 58PM, John Levine wrote: > >> >> Today if you're an IEEE type, and you wonder where to find RFC 793, or >> you're wondering what RFC 793 is about, and you look it up in IEEE >> Xplore, the online library that all electrical engineers use, and that >> their employers have site subscriptions for, you'll find ... nothing. >> Yes, you can find it in Google, but Google isn't a particularly good >> place to look for engineering papers. Xplore is. RFCs aren't in the >> ACM Digital Library, either, same problem. > > Nor is it in Google Scholar, which is generally where I look first. > > > --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf