Text from MIL-STD-188-220D, published March 2008: "Request for comments (RFCs) are available from Network Information Center, 14200 Park Meadow Drive, Suite 200, Chantilly, VA 22021. The Network Information Center (NIC) can be reached, by phone, Monday through Friday, 7 AM through 7 PM, Eastern Standard time: 1-800-365-3642 and 1-703-802-4535. RFCs may also be obtained from the DS.INTERNIC.NET via FTP, WAIS, and electronic mail. Through FTP, RFCs are stored as rfc/rfcnnnn.txt or rfc/rfcnnnn.ps where ‘nnnn’ is the RFC number, ‘txt’ is a text file and ‘ps’ is a postscript file. Login as “anonymous” and provide your e-mail address as the password. Through WAIS, you may use either your local WAIS client or TELNET to DS.INTERNIC.NET and login as “wais” (no password required). Through electronic mail send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include the following commands in the message body document -by-name RFC#### where #### is the RFC number without leading zeros or file /ftp/rfc/rfc####.yyy where ‘yyy’ is ‘ps’ or ‘txt’. To obtain the complete RFC index, the subject line of your message should read “RFC index.”]"
Something tells me they haven't updated this boilerplate since the 1980s. I'm surprised there weren't any references to GOPHER. -- t. charles clancy, ph.d. eng.umd.edu/~tcc electrical & computer engineering, university of maryland _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
