RFC 1

I just would like to point out that today, April 7, it is 40 years ago RFC 1 was made available. New York Times writes about it in an article. Or rather, Steve Crocker, the author of RFC 1, writes in NYT. Today, the highest numbered RFC is RFC 5519. There is probably slightly fewer RFCs published, as there are some that are in the publication queue. Such as the next RFC I have authored, an IAB document (draft-iab-dns-choices-08.txt) on how to expand the DNS, i.e. store new data in DNS.

I wrote my first RFC (RFC 1740) in 1994, and it specified how to send Macintosh files with email. What in normal speak is called attachments. After that, it has been I think 12 RFCs:

• RFC 1740 MIME Encapsulation of Macintosh Files - MacMIME

• RFC 1741 MIME Content Type for BinHex Encoded Files

• RFC 1835 Architecture of the WHOIS++ service

• RFC 1914 How to Interact with a Whois++ Mesh

• RFC 2916 E.164 number and DNS

• RFC 2957 The application/whoispp-query Content-Type

• RFC 2958 The application/whoispp-response Content-type

• RFC 3406 Uniform Resource Names (URN) Namespace Definition Mechanisms

• RFC 3490 Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA)

• RFC 3761 The E.164 to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM)

• RFC 4194 The S Hexdump Format

• RFC 4690 Review and Recommendations for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)

Updated: Some of the links to the RFCs was missing the .txt suffix. This is now fixed. Thanks Mattias!