Subject: Re: comment on tcp_input(): clarify "specification" [patch]
To: None <darcy@NetBSD.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 05/19/2005 17:47:37
In message <20050519104733.6d7853a8.darcy@NetBSD.org>,
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" writes:


>Is it an absolute that the pages are always the same no matter what the
>source of the RFC?

For citation purposes: yes, absolutely.  ASCII-format RFCs are
pre-formatted with linefeeds and pagenumbers. Once released, RFCs are
not changeable (instad, one issues a brand new RFC).

Its decades ago now, but I think even the DoD Protocol Handbooks
(three _very_ large, white, phonebook-style volumes) had the original
RFC page-numbering above the DoD-protocol-handbook page number.