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+\chapter*{Requests for Comments}
+
+\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}}\,.
+
+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}}\,.
+
+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}}\,.
+
+Following is a list of \RFC{}s which are relevant for this thesis.
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[\RFC\,821]
+\emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol} (obsoleted by \RFC\,2821)
+
+\item[\RFC\,822]
+\emph{Standard for the format of \NAME{ARPA} Internet text messages} (obsoleted by \RFC\,2822)
+
+\item[\RFC\,0000]
+\emph{}
+
+
+\end{description}