[ih] Confusion in the RFCs

[John Day]

Well, the Telnet meeting (in 1972) occurred considerably before the FTP meeting* (Mar 73), so I am not so sure it was a typo.

As I said before back then, RFCs were Requests for *Comments*, not Internet Standards, which always seemed pretty absurd. Official documents were published separately.

Take care,
John

* Where Padlipsky made his famous comment: “Sometimes when changing apples into oranges, you get lemons.” ;-)

> On Sep 5, 2025, at 06:17, Jim Carpenter <jim at deitygraveyard.com> wrote:
> 
> Yup. RFC 854 *obsoleted* NIC 18639. I wasn't paying attention. Sorry.
> 
> But RFC 542 is listed in that handbook for FTP. So including it for
> TELNET was just a typo.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 5:36 AM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Doubtful.  Unless they had a time machine. RFC 854 is dated May 1983.
>> As I pointed out (or should have) the NIC number is the same as on the official Aug 1973 version.
>>