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     1.4 +\chapter*{Requests for Comments}
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     1.6 +\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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     1.8 +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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    1.10 +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}}\,.
    1.11 +
    1.12 +Following is a list of \RFC{}s which are relevant for this thesis.
    1.13 +
    1.14 +\begin{description}
    1.15 +\item[\RFC\,821]
    1.16 +\emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol} (obsoleted by \RFC\,2821)
    1.17 +
    1.18 +\item[\RFC\,822]
    1.19 +\emph{Standard for the format of \NAME{ARPA} Internet text messages} (obsoleted by \RFC\,2822)
    1.20 +
    1.21 +\item[\RFC\,0000]
    1.22 +\emph{}
    1.23 +
    1.24 +
    1.25 +\end{description}