Re: [manual] references to RFCs

I definitely prefer [1]. Citations should be made by
publisher, not by printer or copy-editor (which is
what rfc-editor mostly does).

Regards,  Martin.

At 03:08 01/12/28 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The Manual of Style should give advice on how to reference RFCs. It
>seems, that each editor has a different preference chosing the URI for
>the RFC, you can find inter alia these:
>
>   [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt
>   [2] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt
>   http://ietf.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt
>   http://info.internet.isi.edu:80/in-notes/rfc/files/rfcXXXX.txt
>   ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfcXXXX.txt
>   http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfcXXXX.txt
>   http://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt
>
>Where the first scheme is most common. It's also the one I prefer, since
>the [1] archives cover more RFCs than those of [2] and [1] is simply
>shorter to type, but the Manual itself uses [2] and
><http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html> notes:
>
>[...]
>   Be advised that there is a slight time period when the two directories
>   will be out of sync. When in doubt, the RFC Editor Web Page is the
>   authoritative source page.
>[...]
>
>So maybe [2] would be the right choice. However, I want consistency :-)
>
>regards,
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