[Zlib-devel] References to RFCs

Cosmin Truta cosmin at cs.toronto.edu
Thu May 15 11:40:01 EDT 2003


On Thu, 15 May 2003, Alexander Mai wrote:

> The documentation (text, sources) has references to suitable
> RFCs as
>  ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1951.txt
> This host doesn't seem to exist anylonger?!
>
> I could propose
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt

This seems like a legitimate URL, set up by a legitimate organization
(IETF). I use always use this domain if I want to refer to a RFC.

> or
> http://rfc1951.x42.com/

This seems to be a personal site with no formal commitment of any kind.
We cannot rely on it.

Cosmin





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