> Hi, > > > NO!! RFCs are *very* important when writing software. They are the > > standards upon which a large amount of free software is based and are > > absolutely crucial to developers. Why should they have to hunt the > > web for such stuff? > > I think it's possible for _everyone_ to mirror (for example) > http://www.rfc-editor.org/categories/rfc-standard.html on his computer if he > wants these things. > > There are also other ways to do it. (e.g. I have written a few scripts which > make it possible to keep a local 'cache' of rfc documents and if I need one > which is not in there it gets automatically fetched.) > > I think everyone is able to find a solution for these day-to-day tasks. > These are not the problem a distribution should cover.
Such scripts would be a very useful addition to the archive. Also, you have to realise that not everyone has a decent (or cheap) net connection, and looking through dozens of RFCs can take a long time if they are not locally available. There is a huge amount of stuff which is easy to download/mirror/whatever, but one of the nice things about Debian is that important things are available as standard on the CDs of the distribution. I personally regard RFCs as generally important to anyone programming any net-aware or net-related software. Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg