1. Contacts
This section contains important contact information, for reference.
Internet Architecture Board (IAB) Contact: www.iab.org
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Contact: www.ietf.org
Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) Contact: www.irtf.org
See: http://www.iana.org
1.3. Request for Comments Editor (RFC Editor) Contact
See: http://www.rfc-editor.org
The RFC Editor publishes documents that are the output of the IETF
process or are submitted individually via electronic mail. Further
information about the RFC series is contained in section 2.1, RFC
2026 and at http://www.rfc-editor.org .
How to obtain the most recent edition of this "Internet Official
Protocol Standards" memo:
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1.4. Requests for Comments Distribution Contact
RFCs can be obtained via FTP from FTP.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 "name@host.domain".
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a message body of:
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1.5. Sources for Requests for Comments
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