Definition of Rfc

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RFC (Request For Comments)
n. series of documents containing suggestions for new or updated Internet standards (Computers)

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RFC Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

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RFC
/R-F-C/ n. [Request For Comment] One of a long-established series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities. Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the Internet mail-format standard). The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than formally promulgated through an institution such as ANSI. For this reason, they remain known as RFCs even once adopted as standards.

The RFC tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact standard writing done by individuals or small working groups has important advantages over the more formal, committee-driven process typical of ANSI or ISO. Emblematic of some of these advantages is the existence of a flourishing tradition of `joke' RFCs; usually at least one a year is published, usually on April 1st. Well-known joke RFCs have included 527 ("ARPAWOCKY", R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973), 748 ("Telnet Randomly-Lose Option", Mark R. Crispin; 1 April 1978), and 1149 ("A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers", D. Waitzman, BBN STC; 1 April 1990). The first was a Lewis Carroll pastiche; the second a parody of the TCP-IP documentation style, and the third a deadpan skewering of standards-document legalese, describing protocols for transmitting Internet data packets by carrier pigeon.

The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work -- they manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to truly worldwide proportions.

Computer Abbreviations v1.5
RFC
Request For Comments [Internet]

9300+ Computer Acronyms
RFC
Request For Comments

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RFC
Request For Comments [Internet]

WebGuest Web Glossary
RFC - Request For Comments
Procedure to establish new standards or to propose new standards on the Internet  . Each standard, each protocol  has a related RFC (followed by a reference number). For example, RFC 822 is the Internet standard for email . RFCs guide the development of the Internet.

Internet Glossary
RFC
(Request For Comments) -- The name of the result and the process for creating a standard on the Internet. New standards are proposed and published on line, as a Request For Comments. The Internet Engineering Task Force is a consensus-building body that facilitates discussion, and eventually a new standard is established, but the reference number/name for the standard retains the acronym RFC, e.g. the official standard for e-mail is RFC 822.

ATM Forum
RFC
Request For Comment: The development of TCP/IP standards, procedures and specifications is done via this mechanism. RFCs are documents that progress through several development stages, under the control of IETF, until they are finalized or discarded.

Internetworking Terms
RFC
See: Request For Comments

Request For Comments
The document series, begun in 1969, which describes the Internet suite of protocols and related experiments. Not all (in fact very few) RFCs describe Internet standards, but all Internet standards are written up as RFCs. The RFC series of documents is unusual in that the proposed protocols are forwarded by the Internet research and development community, acting on their own behalf, as opposed to the formally reviewed and standardized protocols that are promoted by organizations such as CCITT and ANSI. See also: For Your Information, STD.

INTERNET TERMS&ACRONYMSV1.0
RFC
RFC ( Request For Commands )
The primary mechanism used by the IETF to publish documents,including standards.

Internet and Chat Abbreviations
RFC
Request For Comments

The Internet Dictionary
RFC
(Request for Comments) The documents that contain the standards and other information for the TCP/IP protocols and the Internet in general. They can be found at several sites through anonymous FTP .


RFC Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries

DOD Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations
RFC
response force commander
  

International Relations and Security Acronyms
RFC
 Regional Funding Conference


RFC Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

Hill Associates Acronym List
RFC
Request For Comments (IETF)

ETSI and 3GPP
RFC
Request For Comments

Technical English by wpv
RFC
Request For Comments; technical note series which began in 1969 describing DARPA and Internet research and development, particularly in the areas of protocol design and internetworking. Not all (in fact very few) RFCs describe Internet standards, but all Internet standards are written up as RFCs.

Telecom Terms
RFC
Request for Comment, see http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html

Yigal's 3G abbreviations
RFC
Request for Comments

GSM abbreviations
RFC
Request For Comments

Used for developing new standards on the Internet (IETF).


RFC Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

NCTS Glossary v.1.0
RFC
Request For Comments


RFC Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries

Environmental Engineering (English ver.)
RfC
Reference Concentration


RFC Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries


RFC Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

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RFC
RFC, a three letter initialism, may refer to:

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