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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).
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 ...
TANJ – (a) There Ain't No Justice (used as expletive in the Ringworld novels) TANP – (i) Terrain-Aware Network Planner; TANSTAAFL – (a) There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch (coined by author Robert A. Heinlein in his The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) TAPPS – (a) Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools
The first few years of Ranganathan's tenure at Madras were years of deliberation and analysis as he addressed the problems of library administration and classification. [10] It was during this period that he produced what have come to be known as his two greatest legacies: his five laws of library science (1931) and the colon classification ...
Ellis is the first scholar who classified the Dravidian languages as a separate language family. [3] [4] Robert Caldwell, who is often credited as the first scholar to propose a separate language family for South Indian languages, acknowledges Ellis's contribution in his preface to the first edition of A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages: [5]
The original constitution was written by him in a flowing italic style. The Calligraphy of the Hindi version of the Original Constitution was done by Vasant Krishan Vaidya. [ 1 ] Working in a room in Constitution Hall (now known as the Constitution Club of India ), he rendered the document - consisting of 395 articles, 8 schedules, and a ...
The Hathigumpha inscription ("Elephant Cave" inscription) from Udayagiri near Bhubaneshwar in Orissa was written by Kharavela, the king of Kalinga in India during the 2nd century BCE. The Hathigumpha inscription consists of seventeen lines incised in deep cut Brahmi letters on the overhanging brow of a natural cavern called Hathigumpha on the ...
Biggles was parodied in a series of skits on the 1970s British comedy television show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, including one titled "Biggles Dictates a Letter". [28] In the sketch, Biggles ( Graham Chapman ) behaves in a naive and overreactive manner about the sexual orientation of his comrades, shooting Algy in the process.