comp.os.linux.networking

On 03/11/2008 01:31 AM, Moe Trin wrote:
> 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

Moreover, it is quite confusing which of the RFC are interrelated; what
the heck RFC numbers are doing; all these I think, are useless version
numbers. Which of the RFC's succeeds and, or obsoletes which one, are
few questions have not been addressed by any of these RFC's.

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