Date   : Wed, 08 Aug 2001 16:01:07 +0100
From   : Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>
Subject: Re: etiquette, quoting and stuff

At 14:08 08/08/01 +0100, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

>RFC *ARE* Standards. RFCs ARE STANDARDS!  Read the F*ing RFCs!

I would suggest that you read RFC1796, which is amusingly called "Not All 
RFCs Are Standards". A relevant quote is:

    It is a regrettably well spread misconception that publication as an
    RFC provides some level of recognition.  It does not, or at least not
    any more than the publication in a regular journal.  In fact, each
    RFC has a status, relative to its relation with the Internet
    standardization process: Informational, Experimental, or Standards
    Track (Proposed Standard, Draft Standard, Internet Standard), or
    Historic.  This status is reproduced on the first page of the RFC
    itself, and is also documented in the periodic "Internet Official
    Protocols Standards" RFC (STD 1).  But this status is sometimes
    omitted from quotes and references, which may feed the confusion.

Now back to our regularly scheduled TCP/IP-over-Econet bastardisation.

ObBeeb: I was once going to write an M5000 emulator for the PC. I never got 
round to it, but has anyone at all been able to implement Ample (or at 
least a subset) on something other than a Beeb, even better if it's open 
source? My audio stack needs augmenting with good ol' Beeb-generated audio 
(see http://photos.jml.net/photo.php?id=51440 for the horrid truth which my 
wife berates me about).


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