[Reality] V3(4?) RFC?

Benjamin Sunshine-Hill sneftel@popmail.com
Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:44:01 -0600 (CST)


> 
> I was wondering if anybody subscribed to this list knew the process for
> writing an RFC, and if so, thought it was worth the time and effort to do
> so for the V3 protocol ...
> 
> It might be nice to write a more generalized version of the TR protocol
> stuff, since it generally seems to be a highly useful protocol and might
> be good for other things as well ... it has the same advantage of HTML in
> that you can afford to ignore parts of the message if you don't understand
> what they're about... so any incrementally developed system might be able
> to benefit from it.
> 
> Also, it might be nice to have a crypted version of the same thing.
> 

An RFC starts out as an Internet Draft. Some info is at http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/ID-nits.html . Afterwards, some (probably white-robed) people decide which drafts are important enough to become RFCs.

Ben

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