RFC 628

Status of RFC numbers and a note on pre-assigned journal numbers

📅 published March 1974, from ietf

RFC 628: Status of RFC Numbers and a Note on Pre-assigned Journal Numbers 💖

okay bestie, so this one is from March 27, 1974 🌸 It's RFC 628 (NIC 22361), written by Marcia L. Keeney at SRI-ARC, and it's a short little announcement about where you get your RFC numbers and journal numbers. The original doesn't say anything about it obsoleting or updating another RFC, or what category it's in, so I'm not gonna make any of that up 🙈

Big news: RFC numbers can now be grabbed on-line through NLS at OFFICE-1 🎉 You can't get them on-line at SRI-ARC anymore, so that's been retired fr fr. If you'd rather skip the on-line stuff, you can still call the NIC and ask for an RFC number. Totally valid, no cap.

Heads up, lowkey important: pre-assigned journal numbers (RFC numbers are not included in this) can only be used through NLS on the system they were taken from, either OFFICE-1 or SRI-ARC. So if you grabbed one on OFFICE-1, it stays on OFFICE-1 💅

The original also has a little editor's note at the bottom about how it got turned into machine readable form for the online RFC archives. Alex McKenzie did that with support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp., in November 1999 ✨

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp. 11/99 ] 🫶

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