Subject: Re: comment on tcp_input(): clarify "specification" [patch]
To: None <darcy@NetBSD.org, jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: List Mail User <track@Plectere.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/19/2005 18:16:53
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>In message <20050519104733.6d7853a8.darcy@NetBSD.org>,
>"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" writes:
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>>Is it an absolute that the pages are always the same no matter what the
>>source of the RFC?
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>For citation purposes: yes, absolutely.  ASCII-format RFCs are
>pre-formatted with linefeeds and pagenumbers. Once released, RFCs are
>not changeable (instad, one issues a brand new RFC).
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>Its decades ago now, but I think even the DoD Protocol Handbooks
>(three _very_ large, white, phonebook-style volumes) had the original
>RFC page-numbering above the DoD-protocol-handbook page number.
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	The DoD books have the RFC page numbers at the bottom center
of each page;  The Handbooks' own page numbers below a solid line
below the RFC page number (they are still in reach).

	Paul Shupak