meillo@307: \chapter*{Requests for Comments}
meillo@307: 
meillo@402: \name{Requests for Comments} are the documents that propose or define Internet standards and best practices. They are controlled by the \name{Internet Engineering Task Force} (short: \NAME{IETF}) \citeweb{ietf:homepage}.
meillo@402: \index{ietf}
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: 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}}\,.
meillo@402: \index{rfc}
meillo@307: 
meillo@406: More comfortable to browse are the \NAME{HTML} formatted representations which contain navigation hyperlinks. They are accessible at {\small\url{http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfcNNNN}}\,.
meillo@307: 
meillo@344: 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}.
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: \begin{description}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,821] \emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol} \obsoleted{2821}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,822] \emph{Standard for the format of \NAME{ARPA} Internet text messages} \obsoleted{2822}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,2487] \emph{\SMTP\ Service Extension for Secure \SMTP\ over \NAME{TLS}} \obsoleted{3207}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,2505] \emph{Anti-Spam Recommendations for \SMTP\ \MTA{}s}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,2554] \emph{\SMTP\ Service Extension for Authentication} \obsoleted{4954}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,2821] \emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol} \obsoleted{5321}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,2822] \emph{Internet Message Format} \obsoleted{5322}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,3207] \emph{\SMTP\ Service Extension for Secure \SMTP\ over Transport Layer Security}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,4954] \emph{\SMTP\ Service Extension for Authentication}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,5321] \emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol}
meillo@344: \item[\RFC\,5322] \emph{Internet Message Format}
meillo@344: \end{description}
meillo@307: 
meillo@402: \index{smtp}
meillo@402: \index{mail message}
meillo@402: \index{smtps}
meillo@402: \index{spam}
meillo@402: \index{auth!smtp-auth}
meillo@402: \index{starttls}
meillo@402: