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Hello.

This following is a list of more than 130 interesting (IMHO-lah!) not-so-technical Request For Comments (RFC) citations. It was extracted from http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc-index.txt. Some parts (or the whole) of the abstract or introduction were cited. To get a full text of an RFC, please follow the URL of the related RFC. To get a full list of the Internet Official Protocol Standards, see STD-1 which is (currently) RFC-2600. See also the the RFC editor page.

0. RTFR: an Introduction to the RFC Jungle
1. Read The Fine RFCs -- part I
   • IANA and Jon Postel
   • Organizations in the Internet Standard Process Realm: ISOC, IAB, IESG, IETF, IEPG, and IRTF
   • The RFC-Editor
2. Read The Fine RFCs -- part II
   • General Information
   • DNS, IP Addresses, and Identifiers
3. Read The Fine RFCs -- part III
   • TCP/IP and Email
   • ETC
   • Agreements
4. Read The Fine RFCs -- part IV
   • VIR -- Very Interesting RFCs :-)

So many RFCs, but what is what?

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