- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 03:08:59 +0100
- To: spec-prod@w3.org
- Cc: lesch@w3.org
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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