-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/29/14 4:47 AM, Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: > Hi, Anybody knows the history behind RFC numbers. How it started > and which document explained this. Sometimes I see it is not a > sequential numbers for new RFCs. Thanks Best, Hosnieh > > Topics like this one are better sent to the rfc-interest list (https://www.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-interest). That said, and to answer the later comments on this thread, creating a unique cataloguing system for RFCs would, in my mind, provide very little value versus how much work creating and maintaining such a system would entail. Meaningless numbers and a decent search engine are a much saner approach for this kind of document series. - -Heather Flanagan, RSE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.22 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJULVIlAAoJEER/xjINbZoGNB8H/RPsEWIozCaS1EUbJzj58SUw bnLkptwvGkuiGbynv4IVorEwzxKYmNG+LBeYA8Wqd554P0aPukxhkvVRAvxjwznA DAmq2CN9wBjkWZfADvGa47fHK6iT5a4IQM4rQu5/ouSBy9YvJi59boNaFGBOuwBL S+67OxpIVjJZUh8pMzLHSgWmZPE15ioMw0iiVbgmD6ZQFIW8g3YlAylYA3zpja4d qjh6GhAcPV5z3nxaEpzaba57+Pf4RJ/PDTHY+5c/Nd4wm23nefREKADM69eBvYW8 q7JkdgoXDp4lg7cFzsB933jRTI89rp2zycqcc/Hbzn3MUUGdgri7BfmEgaRbjBU= =C1HV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----