Requests for Comment (RFCs): Difference between revisions

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The following tabulation lists all current (not obsolete) RFCs that have Usenet or NNTP in their titles along with selected RFCs to which they refer and some other RFCs of general Internet impact. Some (e.g., RFC1855) may be of interest to general newsgroup participants. Others (e.g., RFC2046) are of a technical nature that might be of interest only to developers of news servers and clients.

The RFC number in the first column is a link to its online document.

The term RFC means "request for comment". Technically, an RFC is thus not a standard. In many cases, however, an RFC is as close to a standard as we can get. On the other hand, some RFCs have indeed been elevated to official standards. Those are indicated with their numbers in bold and the number of the standard in parentheses with STD.

The "Date" column is the date (month and year) the RFC was published for comments.

Under "Impacts On and From Other RFCs", obsolete RFCs are in ~~strike-out~~. Links are provided for non-obsolete RFCs that update the subject RFC.

RFC #	Title	Date	Impacts On and From Other RFCs	Comments
1011	Official Internet Protocols	May87	Obsoletes ~~RFC991~~, Updated by RFC 6093	Lists those Internet RFCs and other specifications that were in effect on the publication date.
1123 (part of STD0003)	Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support	Oct89	Updates ~~RFC822~~; Updated by ~~RFC1349~~, ~~RFC2181~~,RFC5321, and RFC5966 (none of which are relevant to NNTP)	See errata
1855	Netiquette Guidelines	Oct95
2026	The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3	Oct96	Obsoletes ~~RFC1602~~, ~~RFC1871~~ Updated by ~~RFC3667~~, ~~RFC3668~~, ~~RFC3932~~, ~~RFC3978~~, RFC3979, RFC5378, , RFC5657, RFC5742 (none of which are specific to NNTP)	Best Current Practice see errata
2046	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types	Nov96	Obsoletes ~~RFC1521~~, ~~RFC1522~~, ~~RFC1590~~ Updated by ~~RFC2646~~, RFC3798, RFC5147 (specific to MIME, not to NNTP), and RFC6657	See errata
2076	Common Internet Message Headers	Feb97		See also non-RFC update to RFC 2076
2980	Common NNTP Extensions	Oct00	Updated by RFC3977, RFC4643, RFC4644, and RFC6048
3676	The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters	Feb04	Obsoletes ~~RFC2646~~	See §4.3 regarding signatures in Usenet messages.
3977	Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)	Oct06	Obsoletes ~~RFC977~~; Updates RFC2980, Updated by RFC6048	See errata
3986 (STD0066)	Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax	Jan05	Obsoletes ~~RFC1808~~, ~~RFC2396~~, ~~RFC2732~~ Updates RFC1738	See erratum
4643	Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Authentication	Oct06	Updates RFC2980	See erratum
4644	Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Extension for Streaming Feeds	Oct06	Updates RFC2980	See erratum
5322	Internet Message Format	Oct08	Obsoletes ~~RFC2822~~ Updates RFC4021 (not relevant to NNTP)	See erratum
5536	Netnews Article Format	Nov09	Obsoletes ~~RFC1036~~, ~~RFC1849~~	See erratum
5537	Netnews Architecture and Protocols	Nov09	Obsoletes ~~RFC1036~~, ~~RFC1849~~	See erratum
5538	The 'news' and 'nntp' URI Schemes	Apr10		Specifies URIs to reference newsgroups and individual newsgroup messages
6048	Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Additions to LIST Command	Nov10	Updates RFC2980 and RFC3977
6093	On the Implementation of the TCP Urgent Mechanism	Jan11	Updates RFC 1011

To search for other RFCs, visit the Internet Society's RFC Index Search Engine. The Official Internet Protocol Standards shows the correlation between standards and RFCs, listed both in standard-number sequence and RFC-number sequence. Insert non-formatted text here

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-The following tabulation lists all current (not obsolete) RFCs that have Usenet or NNTP in their titles along with selected RFCs to which they refer and some other RFCs of general Internet impact.  Some (e.g., [http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html RFC1855]) may be of interest to general newsgroup participants.  Others (e.g., [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1036 RFC1036]) are of a technical nature that might be of interest only to developers of news servers and clients.
+The following tabulation lists all current (not obsolete) RFCs that have Usenet or NNTP in their titles along with selected RFCs to which they refer and some other RFCs of general Internet impact.  Some (e.g., [http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html RFC1855]) may be of interest to general newsgroup participants.  Others (e.g., [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046 RFC2046]) are of a technical nature that might be of interest only to developers of news servers and clients.
 The RFC number in the first column is a link to its online document.
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 |Official Internet Protocols
 |May87
-|Obsoletes <s>RFC991</s>
+|Obsoletes <s>RFC991</s>, Updated by RFC 6093
 |Lists those Internet RFCs and other specifications that were in effect on the publication date.
 |-
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 |Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support
 |Oct89
-|Updates RFC822<br /> Updated by <s>RFC1349</s>, [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2181.txt RFC2181],[ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5321.txt RFC5321], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5966.txt RFC5966] (none of which are relevant to NNTP)
+|Updates <s>RFC822</s>; Updated by <s>RFC1349</s>, <s>RFC2181</s>,[ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5321.txt RFC5321], and [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5966.txt RFC5966] (none of which are relevant to NNTP)
-|[http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/errataSearch.pl?rfc=1123 See erratum]
+|[http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=1123 See errata]
 |-
 |[ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1855.txt 1855]
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 |The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3
 |Oct96
-|Obsoletes <s>RFC1602</s>, <s>RFC1871</s><br /> Updated by <s>RFC3667</s>, <s>RFC3668</s>, [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3932.txt RFC3932], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3978.txt RFC3978], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3979.txt RFC3979], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5378.txt RFC5378], [http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rfcdoctype.pl?loc=RFC&letsgo=5742&type=ftp&file_format=txt RFC5742] (none of which are specific to NNTP)
+|Obsoletes <s>RFC1602</s>, <s>RFC1871</s><br /> Updated by <s>RFC3667</s>, <s>RFC3668</s>, <s>RFC3932</s>, <s>RFC3978</s>, [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3979.txt RFC3979], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5378.txt RFC5378], , [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5657.txt RFC5657], [http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rfcdoctype.pl?loc=RFC&letsgo=5742&type=ftp&file_format=txt RFC5742] (none of which are specific to NNTP)
-|Best Current Practice<br /> <br /> [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2026.txt see errata]
+|Best Current Practice<br /> <br /> [http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=2026 see errata]
 |-
 |[ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2046.txt 2046]
 |Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types
 |Nov96
-|Obsoletes <s>RFC1521</s>, <s>RFC1522</s>, <s>RFC1590</s><br />  Updated by <s>RFC2646</s>, [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3798.txt RFC3798], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5147.txt RFC5147] (specific to MIME, not to NNTP)
+|Obsoletes <s>RFC1521</s>, <s>RFC1522</s>, <s>RFC1590</s><br />  Updated by <s>RFC2646</s>, [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3798.txt RFC3798], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc5147.txt RFC5147] (specific to MIME, not to NNTP), and [http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6657 RFC6657]
-|[http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/errataSearch.pl?rfc=2046 See errata]
+|[http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=2046 See errata]
 |-
 |[ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2076.txt 2076]
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 |Common NNTP Extensions
 |Oct00
-|Updated by [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3977.txt RFC3977], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4643.txt RFC4643], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4644.txt RFC4644]
+|Updated by [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3977.txt RFC3977], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4643.txt RFC4643], [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4644.txt RFC4644], and [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6048.txt RFC6048]
 |
 |-
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 |Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
 |Oct06
-|Obsoletes <s>RFC977</s><br /> Updates RFC2980
+|Obsoletes <s>RFC977</s>; Updates RFC2980, Updated by [http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6048 RFC6048]
 | [http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3977 See errata]
 |-
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 |
 |Specifies URIs to reference newsgroups and individual newsgroup messages
+|-
+|[http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6048.txt 6048]
+|Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Additions to LIST Command
+|Nov10
+|Updates [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2980.txt RFC2980] and [ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3977.txt RFC3977]
+|-
+|[http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6093.txt 6093]
+|On the Implementation of the TCP Urgent Mechanism
+|Jan11
+|Updates RFC 1011
+|
 |}
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