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Network Working Group Request for Comments: 5540 Category: Informational

RFC Editor USC/ISI 7 April 2009

40 Years of RFCs Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Abstract This RFC marks the 40th anniversary of the RFC document series. 1. RFCs and Jon Postel Forty years ago today, the first Request for Comments document, RFC 1, was published at UCLA [RFC1]. This was the first of a series that currently contains more than 5400 documents (roughly 160,000 pages) on computer networking in general and on the Internet protocols in particular. The RFC series emerged from the US government-funded research efforts that created the ARPANET and later the Internet. When the IETF was formed in the mid-1980s, RFCs became the primary publication vehicle for IETF standards, and thus became centered on the vendor and user communities. For the first 29 years, Jon Postel [Postel] was *the* RFC Editor, until his untimely death in October 1998. Postel, with substantial help from Joyce K. Reynolds, was responsible for the collection, editing, online publication, and archiving of the RFC documents. From 1978 until 1998, Postel was a research scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) in Marina del Rey, California. Postel was also the original IANA as well as Director of the Computer Networks Division at ISI.

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Upon the occasion of the 30th anniversary of RFC 1 and as a tribute to the massive contribution of Jon Postel, the RFC Editor published RFC 2555 [RFC2555] on April 7, 1999. This RFC contained recollections from three networking pioneers: Steve Crocker who wrote RFC 1, Vint Cerf whose long-range vision continues to guide us, and Jake Feinler who played a key role in the middle years of the RFC series. Ten more years have now passed, anniversary of the RFC series. size during the last ten years, into the future. All the good true ten years later. and we have reached the 40th The series has more than doubled in and it is expected to continue far things said in RFC 2555 still hold

We should, however, note some changes that have occurred over the past ten years. o After Jon passed away, Joyce Reynolds and Bob Braden put together a small organization at USC/ISI to continue the RFC Editor function. This was motivated by a desire to honor Postel by continuing his remarkable effort and to provide a service to the Internet community. Funding of the RFC Editor, which government until 1998, was taken During 1998-2006, ISOC funded the annual contracts and extensions. competitive bid for 2007 (USC/ISI Editor services from 2007-2009), to bid again for post-2009. had been supported by the US over by the Internet Society. RFC Editor under a series of ISOC put the function out for was selected to provide RFC and the contract will be put out

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During 2009 there will be a significant transition for the RFC Editor function, as some new organization or set of organizations takes over this service that has been performed at USC/ISI continuously since 1978. o Many improvements have increased the efficiency and transparency of the RFC editorial process [RFCed09]. The RFC Editor formed an RFC Editorial Board, a group of people with broad and deep knowledge of the Internet and networking. One of its major functions is to assist the RFC Editor by reviewing RFCs in the Independent Submission stream. An email list, rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org, was created to obtain community input on the RFC Editor functions.

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Security Considerations This document does not raise any security issues.

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Acknowledgments It has been an honor for USC/ISI to serve the community during the past 31 years.

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Informative References [Postel] "Remembering Jonathan B. Postel", .

[RFCed09] Braden, R., Ginoza, S., and A. Hagens, "The RFC Editor Function at ISI", , January 2009. [RFC1] Crocker, S., "Host Software", RFC 1, April 1969.

[RFC2555] RFC Editor, et al., "30 Years of RFCs", RFC 2555, April 1999. Author's Address RFC Editor EMail: rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org

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