comp.os.linux.networking

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
, Legend
wrote:

>Now, I'll read the RFC1122 - looks really interesting to me :) Thank
>You again...

You're welcome. A suggestion for you. Go to ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/
and get a copy of the rfc-index.txt file

[compton ~]$ zcat rfcs/rfc-index* | sed 's/^$/\%/' | tr -d '\n' | tr
'%' '\n' | grep '^[0-9]' | tr -s ' ' | grep -v 'Not Issued' | sed
's/.*Status: //' | tr -d '\)' | sort | uniq -c | column
145 BEST CURRENT PRACTICE 1564 INFORMATIONAL
135 DRAFT STANDARD 1667 PROPOSED STANDARD
288 EXPERIMENTAL 88 STANDARD
210 HISTORIC 909 UNKNOWN
[compton ~]$ zcat rfcs/rfc-index.txt* | sed 's/^$/\%/' | tr -d '\n' | tr
'%' '\n' | grep '^[0-9]' | tr -s ' ' | grep -c 'Not Issued'
80
[compton ~]$

Of the 5000+ RFCs that have been issued/released, only 88 are classified
as "STANDARD", though a lot more are drafts of standards or proposed as
standards. Looking at the titles often gives an indication of some highly
useful information. Just be a little wary of those that are dated April
1 for some reasons:

1097 Telnet subliminal-message option. B. Miller. Apr-01-1989.
(Format: TXT=5490 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)

1925 The Twelve Networking Truths. R. Callon. Apr-01-1996. (Format:
TXT=4294 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

3093 Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP). M. Gaynor, S. Bradner.
April-01-2001. (Format: TXT=22405 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

Old guy