[Gllug] New to UK - ISP recommendations

[Chris Ball]

>>>>> "Tet" == tet  <tet at accucard.com> writes:

    Tet> Apart from anything else, RFCs are primarily concerned with
    Tet> wire protocols, which is why you don't see the robots exclusion
    Tet> standard published as an RFC, for example...

IETF ones, anyway; the term's been hijacked a fair amount.  Perl 6's
design documents were formed as RFCs, for example.

There are plenty of IETF RFCs that don't touch wire protocols, such as
1014 (XDR), 471 (a meeting announcement), and file formats like 769
(facsimile), 785 (a mail file format) or 797 ("Format for bitmap
files").  Seems odd given the above that BSD mbox format never made it
to an RFC, but that's a different thread..  ;-)

- Chris.
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