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- On Line IETF Information
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- The Internet Engineering Task Force maintains up-to-date, on-line
- information on all its activities. This information is available via
- FTP through the NSFnet Service Center (NNSC) and through several
- ``shadow'' machines. These ``shadow'' machines may in fact be more
- convenient than the NNSC. Procedures for retrieving the information are
- listed below.
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- Directory Locations
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- Information pertaining to the IETF, its Working Groups and Internet
- Drafts can be found in either the ``IETF'' Directory or the
- ``Internet-Drafts'' Directory. (For a more detailed description of
- these Directories, please see Section 1.2.1 and 1.2.2). To retrieve
- this information via FTP, establish a connection, then Login with
- username ``anonymous'' and the password requested by the system. This
- password will either be your login name or ``guest''. When logged in,
- change to the directory of your choice with the following commands:
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- cd ietf
- cd internet-drafts
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- Individual files can then be retrieved using the GET command:
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- get <remote filename> <local filename>
- e.g., get 00README readme.my.copy
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- East Coast (US) Address: nnsc.nsf.net (128.89.1.178)
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- West Coast (US) Address: ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22)
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- Internet-drafts are available by mail server from this machine. To
- retreive a file mail a request:
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- To: mail-server@nisc.sri.com
- Subject: Anything you want
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- In the body put a command of the form:
- send internet-drafts/1id-abstracts.txt or
- send ietf/1wg-summary.txt
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- Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)
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- o The Internet Drafts on this machine are stored in Unix compressed
- form (.Z).
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- Europe Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17)
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- o This machine will accept only an email address as the password.
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- The IETF Directory
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- Below is a list of the files available in the IETF directory and a short
- synopsis of what each file contains.
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- Files prefixed with a 0 contain information about upcoming meetings.
- Files prefixed with a 1 contain general information about the IETF, the
- Working Groups, and the Internet Drafts.
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- FILE NAME
- 0mtg-agenda The current Agenda for the upcoming IETF plenary,
- containing scheduled Working Groups meetings, Technical
- Presentations and Network Status Reports.
- 0mtg-at-a-glance The announcement for the upcoming IETF plenary,
- containing specific information on the date/location of
- the meeting, hotel/airline arrangements, meeting site
- accommodations and meeting costs.
- 0mtg-rsvp A standardized RSVP form to notify the staff of your
- plans to attend the upcoming IETF meeting.
- 0mtg-sites Current and future meeting dates and sites for IETF
- plenaries.
- 1id-abstracts The Internet Drafts currently on-line in the
- Internet-Drafts directory.
- 1id-guidelines Instructions for authors of Internet Drafts.
- 1ietf-description A short description of the IETF, the IESG and how
- to participate.
- 1wg-summary A listing of all current Working Groups, the Working
- Group Chairs and their email addresses, Working Group
- mailing list addresses, and where applicable,
- documentation produced. This file also contains the
- standard acronym for the Working Groups by which the
- IETF and Internet-Drafts directories are keyed.
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- Finally, Working Groups have individual files dedicated to their
- particular activities which contain their respective Charters and
- Meeting Reports. Each Working Group file is named in this fashion:
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- <standard wg abbreviation>-charter.txt
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- <standard wg abbreviation>-minutes-date.txt
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- The ``dir'' or ``ls'' command will permit you to review what Working
- Group files are available and the specific naming scheme to use for a
- successful anonymous ftp action.
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- The Internet-Drafts Directory
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- The ``Internet-Drafts'' directory has been installed to make available,
- for review and comment, draft documents that will be submitted
- ultimately to the IAB and the RFC Editor to be considered for publishing
- as RFC's. These documents are indexed in the file 1id-abstracts.txt in
- the Internet-Drafts directory. Comments are welcome and should be
- addressed to the responsible person whose name and email addresses are
- listed on the first page of the respective draft.
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- The documents are named according to the following conventions. If the
- document was generated in an IETF Working Group, the filename is:
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- draft-ietf-<std wg abrev>-<docname>-<rev>.txt , or .ps
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- where <std wg abrev> is the Working Group acronym, <docname> is a very
- short name, and <rev> is the revision number.
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- If the document was submitted for comment by a non-ietf group or author,
- the filename is:
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- draft-<author>-<docname>-<rev>.txt, or .ps
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- where <author> is the author's name.
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- For more information on writing and installing an Internet Draft, see
- the file 1id-guidelines, ``Guidelines to Authors of Internet Drafts''.
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