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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Size of the Internet vs. UUCP net
Message-ID: <1717@papaya.bbn.com>
Date: 8 May 89 14:57:09 GMT
References: <1989Apr24.203137.5835@utzoo.uucp> <163@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <655@dtscp1.UUCP> <173@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <662@dtscp1.UUCP>
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In <662@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
=	I still find it difficult to accept anything that is marked
=REQUEST FOR COMMENT as a standard.  But I should not be surprised since
=this is all aranged by DARPA through the DoD (you know, the ones who
=give us that wonderful oxymoron "military intelligence"... :-).

It's called a Request For Comment because the authors of the first
one were a bunch of graduate students and they felt humble.  It's
explained in RFC1000.

RFC's come in a variety of flavors, but most of them document standards
that mean "if you're a part of the Internet, and you're gonna do <x>
do it this way."

If it really bothers you all that much (and that attitude puzzles me),
call it a "Request for Compliance."
	/r$
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