meillo@307: \chapter*{Requests for Comments}
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: \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}}\,.
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@307: 
meillo@307: 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}}\,.
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: Following is a list of \RFC{}s which are relevant for this thesis.
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: \begin{description}
meillo@307: \item[\RFC\,821]
meillo@307: \emph{Simple Mail Transfer Protocol} (obsoleted by \RFC\,2821)
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: \item[\RFC\,822]
meillo@307: \emph{Standard for the format of \NAME{ARPA} Internet text messages} (obsoleted by \RFC\,2822)
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: \item[\RFC\,0000]
meillo@307: \emph{}
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: 
meillo@307: \end{description}