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Although written by Steve Crocker, the RFC had emerged from an early working group discussion between Steve Crocker, Steve Carr, and Jeff Rulifson. In RFC 3, which first defined the RFC series, Crocker started attributing the RFC series to the Network Working Group. Rather than being a formal committee, it was a loose association of researchers ...
Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet RFC Editor has published one or more humorous Request for Comments (RFC) documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 called ARPAWOCKY, a parody of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". The following list also includes humorous RFCs published on other dates.
This is a partial list of RFCs (request for comments memoranda). A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
In some situations, such as when you expect an extremely high number of comments or there is no obviously relevant talk page, you may instead place an RfC on a subpage of this page or a subpage of a policy page; Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2012 and Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Categorization of persons are examples.
Between 1945 and June 1947, the RFC, the War Assets Corporation, and the War Assets Administration (the disposal function of the RFC was transferred to WAC on January 15, 1946, and to the WAA in March 1946) processed approximately 61,600 remaining World War II aircraft, Some 34,700 “utility“ type were sold for primarily commercial purposes ...
More recently, letters have mainly been written on paper: handwritten and more recently typed. There is a wealth of letters and instructional materials (for example, manuals, as in the medieval ars dictaminis) on letter writing throughout history. The study of letter writing usually involves both the study of rhetoric and grammar. [6]
[4] [5] [6] It is the form required by IETF Requests for Comments (RFC) and working groups. [7] This spelling also appears in most dictionaries. [8] [9] [4] [10] e-mail was originally the form favored in edited published American English and British English writing, and was formerly preferred by some style guides. [4] E-mail is sometimes used. [11]
The first committees of correspondence were established in Boston in 1764 to rally opposition to the Currency Act and unpopular reforms imposed on the customs service. [ 3 ] During the Stamp Act crisis the following year, the Province of New York formed a committee to urge common resistance among its neighbors to the new taxes.