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applied rogers review and suggestions
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:15:58 +0100
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meillo@307 1 \chapter*{Requests for Comments}
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meillo@307 3 \name{Requests for Comments} are documents that propose or define Internet standards or best practices. They are controlled by the \name{Internet Engeneering Task Force} (short: \NAME{IETF}) and can be found on their website: {\small\url{http://ietf.org}}\,.
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meillo@307 5 A particular \RFC\ is located at {\small\url{http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfcNNNN.txt}}\,, where ``\texttt{NNNN}'' is the four-digit number of that \RFC. For example is \RFC\,821 located at {\small\url{http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt}}\,.
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meillo@307 7 More comfortable to browse are the \NAME{HTML} formated representations which contain navigation hyperlinks. They are accessable at {\small\url{http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfcNNNN}}\,.
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meillo@344 9 Following is a list of \RFC{}s which are relevant for this thesis. An extensive list of mail-related \RFC{}s is available at \citeweb{imc:mail-rfcs}.
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meillo@307 11 \begin{description}
meillo@344 12 \item[\RFC\,821] \emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol} \obsoleted{2821}
meillo@344 13 \item[\RFC\,822] \emph{Standard for the format of \NAME{ARPA} Internet text messages} \obsoleted{2822}
meillo@344 14 \item[\RFC\,2487] \emph{\SMTP\ Service Extension for Secure \SMTP\ over \NAME{TLS}} \obsoleted{3207}
meillo@344 15 \item[\RFC\,2505] \emph{Anti-Spam Recommendations for \SMTP\ \MTA{}s}
meillo@344 16 \item[\RFC\,2554] \emph{\SMTP\ Service Extension for Authentication} \obsoleted{4954}
meillo@344 17 \item[\RFC\,2821] \emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol} \obsoleted{5321}
meillo@344 18 \item[\RFC\,2822] \emph{Internet Message Format} \obsoleted{5322}
meillo@344 19 \item[\RFC\,3207] \emph{\SMTP\ Service Extension for Secure \SMTP\ over Transport Layer Security}
meillo@344 20 \item[\RFC\,4954] \emph{\SMTP\ Service Extension for Authentication}
meillo@344 21 \item[\RFC\,5321] \emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol}
meillo@344 22 \item[\RFC\,5322] \emph{Internet Message Format}
meillo@344 23 %\item[\RFC\,0000] \emph{}
meillo@344 24 \end{description}
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