There is only one set of files and most href's include "target" specifications. If you are running a browser with frames support and do not select "frames", different files will be placed in different browser windows. There also seems to be some frame implementation variations.
For some time the working group name from the IETF email announcements have been used as a keyword. As a result the keyword organization of RFCs will include lists of RFCs done by working group.
Misc. other RFCs of possible interest: "Not All RFCs are Standards" 1796, "Architectural Principles of the Internet" 1958, and "Guide for Internet Standards Writers" 2360.
The draft and proposed standards list include age of RFCs in months (with months >24 displayed in bold). Standards and Protocols documented by obsoleted RFC have number displayed in bold. Protocol names that match port protocol have the port number listed.
Author, Date, and Term indexes have RFCs documenting standards displayed in bold.
email addresses are extracted from RFC editor announcements and included in the Author index. Authors (typically organizations) that are also listed as terms, have their associated RFCs listed as such in the term index.
There has been quite a bit of data cleaning, especially with respect to updates/obsoletes and author names. In the RFC index entries, the author order is not preserved when loading into the database. When re-creating the author list for a RFC, it is built in alphabetical order.
There are a couple instances where Obsoletes/Updates may not be listed:
RFC text files are now being scanned for References section and the information extracted and presented in manner similar to Updates/UpdatedBy. Also, RFCs that mutually reference each other have the References relationship converted to symmetric "SeeAlso". For more detail, see detailed discussion
The IETF draft origin of an RFC will be listed for the first six months after it has been made an RFC.
For more complete description see "The Internet Standards Process" BCP-9 and the latest rfcxx00.txt.
Information that used to appear STD-1 section 6.10 (misc. examples 2000, 2200, 2300, 2400). Only obsoleted standards listed in rfcxx00.txt are listed (standards that were published since and then obsoleted are not listed).
1390 obsoletes 1188 Draf A Proposed Standard for the Transmission of IP Dat 6522 obsoletes 3462 Draf The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reportin 6469 obsoletes 3189 Prop RTP Payload Format for DV (IEC 61834) Video 6437 obsoletes 3697 Prop IPv6 Flow Label Specification 6416 obsoletes 3016 Prop RTP Payload Format for MPEG-4 Audio/Visual Streams 6409 obsoletes 4409 Draf Message Submission for Mail 6407 obsoletes 3547 Prop The Group Domain of Interpretation 6393 obsoletes 4693 Hist IETF Operational Notes 6387 obsoletes 5467 Expe GMPLS Asymmetric Bandwidth Bidirectional Label Swi 6381 obsoletes 4281 Prop The Codecs Parameter for 'Bucket' Media Types 6376 obsoletes 5672 Prop RFC 4871 DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatu 6376 obsoletes 4871 Prop DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures 6350 obsoletes 2426 Prop vCard MIME Directory Profile 6350 obsoletes 2425 Prop A MIME Content-Type for Directory Information 6350 obsoletes 4770 Prop vCard Extensions for Instant Messaging (IM) 6347 obsoletes 4347 Prop Datagram Transport Layer Security 6331 obsoletes 2831 Prop Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism 6298 obsoletes 2988 Prop Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer 6275 obsoletes 3775 Prop Mobility Support in IPv6 6247 obsoletes 1693 Hist An Extension to TCP : Partial Order Service 6247 obsoletes 1644 Hist T/TCP -- TCP Extensions for Transactions Functiona 6247 obsoletes 1146 Hist TCP Alternate Checksum Options 6225 obsoletes 3825 Prop Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Option for Coo 6152 obsoletes 1652 Draf SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport 6145 obsoletes 2765 Prop Stateless IP/ICMP Translation Algorithm (SIIT) 6116 obsoletes 3761 Prop The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dy 6086 obsoletes 2976 Prop The SIP INFO Method 6068 obsoletes 2368 Prop The mailto URL scheme 6047 obsoletes 2447 Prop iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol 5944 obsoletes 3344 Prop IP Mobility Support for IPv4 5925 obsoletes 2385 Prop Protection of BGP Sessions via the TCP MD5 Signatu 5905 obsoletes 1305 Draf Network Time Protocol (v3) 5891 obsoletes 3491 Prop Nameprep: A Stringprep Profile for Internationaliz 5890 obsoletes 3490 Prop Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (I 5798 obsoletes 3768 Draf Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) 5755 obsoletes 3281 Prop An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Auth 5751 obsoletes 3851 Prop Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MI 5750 obsoletes 3850 Prop Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MI 5681 obsoletes 2581 Prop TCP Congestion Control 5653 obsoletes 2853 Prop Generic Security Service API Version 2 : Java Bind 5652 obsoletes 3852 Prop Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) 5651 obsoletes 3451 Expe Layered Coding Transport (LCT) Building Block 5577 obsoletes 3047 Prop RTP Payload Format for ITU-T Recommendation G.722. 5546 obsoletes 2446 Prop iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability P 5545 obsoletes 2445 Prop Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Sp 5531 obsoletes 1831 Prop RPC: Remote Procedure Call Protocol Specification 5519 obsoletes 2933 Prop Internet Group Management Protocol MIB 5519 obsoletes 3019 Prop IP Version 6 Management Information Base for The M 5492 obsoletes 3392 Draf Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4 5445 obsoletes 3695 Expe Compact Forward Error Correction (FEC) Schemes 5389 obsoletes 3489 Prop STUN - Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol 5348 obsoletes 3448 Prop TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC): Protocol Specifi 5340 obsoletes 2740 Prop OSPF for IPv6 5334 obsoletes 3534 Prop The application/ogg Media Type 5322 obsoletes 2822 Prop Internet Message Format 5321 obsoletes 2821 Prop Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 5272 obsoletes 2797 Prop Certificate Management Messages over CMS 5250 obsoletes 2370 Prop The OSPF Opaque LSA Option 5246 obsoletes 3268 Prop Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Ciphersuites fo 4305 obsoletes 2404 Prop The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH
20th Anniversary Of The Internet!, also #1, #2, #3. also RFCs: 801 and 832, 833, 834, 835, 836, 837, 838, 839, 842, 843, 845, 846, 847, 848, 876
Early IETF History (April 1969 to March 1987):
1000
"Request For Comments reference guide".
Also: "30 Years of RFCs"
2555 ,
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
2235,
"Working with Jon, Tribute delivered at UCLA"
2441.
reference to:
NSFnet Announcement and Award
reference to:
NSFnet -- 20 Years of Internet Obscurity and Insight
and a few
old NSFnet related emails
Lynn Wheeler lynn@garlic.com http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietf.htm