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- Where and how to get new RFCs
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- RFCs may be obtained via EMAIL or FTP from many RFC Repositories. The
- Primary Repositories will have the RFC available when it is first
- announced, as will many Secondary Repositories. Some Secondary
- Repositories may take a few days to make available the most recent
- RFCs.
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- Primary Repositories:
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-
- RFCs can be obtained via FTP from DS.INTERNIC.NET, NIS.NSF.NET,
- NISC.JVNC.NET, VENERA.ISI.EDU, WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU, SRC.DOC.IC.AC.UK,
- FTP.CONCERT.NET, or FTP.SESQUI.NET.
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- 1. DS.INTERNIC.NET - InterNIC Directory and Database Services
-
- RFC's may be obtained from DS.INTERNIC.NET via FTP, WAIS, and
- electronic mail. Through FTP, RFC's are stored as rfc/rfcnnnn.txt or
- rfc/rfcnnnn.ps where 'nnnn' is the RFC number. Login as "anonymous"
- and provide your e-mail address as the password. Through WAIS, you
- may use either your local WAIS client or telnet to DS.INTERNIC.NET and
- login as "wais" (no password required) to access a WAIS client. Help
- information and a tutorial for using WAIS are available online. The
- WAIS database to search is "rfcs".
-
- Directory and Database Services also provides a mail server
- interface. Send a mail message to mailserv@ds.internic.net and
- include any of the following commands in the message body:
-
- document-by-name rfcnnnn where 'nnnn' is the RFC number
- The text version is sent.
-
- file /ftp/rfc/rfcnnnn.yyy where 'nnnn' is the RFC number.
- and 'yyy' is 'txt' or 'ps'.
-
- help to get information on how to use
- the mailserver.
-
- The InterNIC Directory and Database Services Collection of Resource
- Listings, Internet Documents such as RFCs, FYIs, STDs, and Internet
- Drafts, and Publically Accessible Databases are also now available via
- Gopher. All our collections are waisindexed and can be searched from
- the Gopher menu.
-
- To access the InterNIC Gopher Servers, please connect to
- "internic.net" port 70.
-
- contact: admin@ds.internic.net
-
-
- 2. NIS.NSF.NET
-
- To obtain RFCs from NIS.NSF.NET via FTP, login with username
- "anonymous" and password "guest"; then connect to the directory of
- RFCs with cd /internet/documents/rfc. The file name is of the form
- rfcnnnn.txt (where "nnnn" refers to the RFC number).
-
- For sites without FTP capability, electronic mail query is available
- from NIS.NSF.NET. Address the request to NIS-INFO@NIS.NSF.NET and
- leave the subject field of the message blank. The first text line of
- the message must be "send rfcnnnn.txt" with nnnn the RFC number.
-
- contact: rfc-mgr@merit.edu
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-
- 3. NISC.JVNC.NET
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- RFCs can also be obtained via FTP from NISC.JVNC.NET, with the
- pathname rfc/RFCnnnn.TXT.v (where "nnnn" refers to the number of the
- RFC and "v" refers to the version number of the RFC).
-
- JvNCnet also provides a mail service for those sites which cannot use
- FTP. Address the request to SENDRFC@JVNC.NET and in the subject field
- of the message indicate the RFC number, as in "Subject: RFCnnnn" where
- nnnn is the RFC number. Please note that RFCs whose number are less
- than 1000 need not place a "0". (For example, RFC932 is fine.) No
- text in the body of the message is needed.
-
- contact: Becker@NISC.JVNC.NET
-
-
- 4. VENERA.ISI.EDU
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- RFCs can be obtained via FTP from VENERA.ISI.EDU, with the pathname
- in-notes/rfcnnnn.txt (where "nnnn" refers to the number of the RFC).
- Login with FTP username "anonymous" and password "guest".
-
- RFCs can also be obtained via electronic mail from VENERA.ISI.EDU by
- using the RFC-INFO service. Address the request to "rfc-info@isi.edu"
- with a message body of:
-
- Retrieve: RFC
- Doc-ID: RFCnnnn
-
- (Where "nnnn" refers to the number of the RFC (always use 4 digits -
- the DOC-ID of RFC-822 is "RFC0822")). The RFC-INFO@ISI.EDU server
- provides other ways of selecting RFCs based on keywords and such; for
- more information send a message to "rfc-info@isi.edu" with the message
- body "help: help".
-
- contact: RFC-Manager@ISI.EDU
-
-
- 5. WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU
-
- RFCs can also be obtained via FTP from WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU, with the
- pathname info/rfc/rfcnnnn.txt.Z (where "nnnn" refers to the number of the
- RFC and "Z" indicates that the document is in compressed form).
-
- At WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU the RFCs are in an "archive" file system and
- various archives can be mounted as part of an NFS file system.
- Please contact Chris Myers (chris@wugate.wustl.edu) if you want to
- mount this file system in your NFS.
-
- contact: chris@wugate.wustl.edu
-
-
- 6. SRC.DOC.IC.AC.UK
-
- RFCs can be obtained via FTP from SRC.DOC.IC.AC.UK with the pathname
- rfc/rfcnnnn.txt.Z or rfc/rfcnnnn.ps.Z (where "nnnn" refers to the
- number of the RFC). Login with FTP username "anonymous" and password
- "your-email-address". To obtain the RFC Index, use the pathname
- rfc/rfc-index.txt.Z. (The trailing .Z indicates that the document is
- in compressed form.)
-
- SRC.DOC.IC.AC.UK also provides an automatic mail service for those
- sites in the UK which cannot use FTP. Address the request to
- info-server@doc.ic.ac.uk with a Subject: line of "wanted" and a
- message body of:
-
- request sources
- topic path rfc/rfcnnnn.txt.Z
- request end
-
- (Where "nnnn" refers to the number of the RFC.) Multiple requests may
- be included in the same message by giving multiple "topic path"
- commands on separate lines. To request the RFC Index, the command
- should read: topic path rfc/rfc-index.txt.Z
-
- The archive is also available using NIFTP and the ISO FTAM system.
-
- contact: ukuug-soft@doc.ic.ac.uk
-
-
- 7. FTP.CONCERT.NET
-
- To obtain RFCs from FTP.CONCERT.NET via FTP, login with username
- "anonymous" and your internet e-mail address as password. The RFCs
- can be found in the directory /rfc, with file names of the form:
- rfcNNNN.txt or rfcNNNN.ps where NNNN refers to the RFC number.
-
- This repository is also accessible via WAIS and the Internet Gopher.
-
- contact: rfc-mgr@concert.net
-
-
- 8. FTP.SESQUI.NET
-
- RFCs can be obtained via FTP from FTP.SESQUI.NET, with the pathname
- pub/rfc/rfcnnnn.xxx (where "nnnn" refers to the number of the RFC and
- xxx indicates the document form, txt for ASCII and ps for Postscript).
-
- At FTP.SESQUI.NET the RFCs are in an "archive" file system and
- various archives can be mounted as part of an NFS file system.
- Please contact RFC-maintainer (rfc-maint@sesqui.net) if you want to
- mount this file system in your NFS.
-
- contact: rfc-maint@sesqui.net
-