Finding information

2008-01-18 Thread Willie Gillespie
As someone new to the IETF, how should I go about doing the following? I want to find some information about IMAP and its extensions. Let's say I found RFC 1730. How would I know that it had been obsoleted by RFC 2060 and then by RFC 3501? How do I find the extensions? I don't necessarily want

Re: Finding information

2008-01-18 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Jan 18, 2008, at 18:55, Willie Gillespie wrote: As someone new to the IETF, how should I go about doing the following? I want to find some information about IMAP and its extensions. Let's say I found RFC 1730. How would I know that it had been obsoleted by RFC 2060 and then by RFC 3501? Ho

Re: Finding information

2008-01-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-01-19 13:05, Ken Raeburn wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008, at 18:55, Willie Gillespie wrote: >> As someone new to the IETF, how should I go about doing the following? >> >> I want to find some information about IMAP and its extensions. Let's >> say I found RFC 1730. How would I know that it had b

Re: Finding information

2008-01-19 Thread Bob Braden
*> *> The RFC repository also has rfc-index.txt, which lists all the RFCs, And an RFC search engine... just type "1730" into the little box, and it will magically return the information you want, including links to the text and to any errata that may exist. Bob Braden ___

Re: Finding information

2008-01-19 Thread Bob Braden
*> *> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html presents the Also available in ASCII and in XML: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc-index.txt http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc-index.xml *> information that is implicit in rfc-index in a more *> digestible form. *> *>Bria

RE: Finding information

2008-01-20 Thread Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
Saturday, January 19, 2008 1:56 AM > To: IETF Discussion > Subject: Finding information > > As someone new to the IETF, how should I go about doing the following? > > I want to find some information about IMAP and its > extensions. Let's say I found RFC 1730. How would I

Re: Finding information

2008-01-20 Thread Tony Li
On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:24 AM, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote: Besides the suggestion already given, if you go to http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html start with a search on IMAP. RFC1730 will be one of the first (in chronological order) of the 47 entries, you will find out in the More Info colum

Re: Finding information

2008-01-20 Thread Edward Lewis
At 10:25 -0800 1/19/08, Bob Braden wrote: *> *> The RFC repository also has rfc-index.txt, which lists all the RFCs, And an RFC search engine... just type "1730" into the little box, and it will magically return the information you want, including links to the text and to any errata that ma

Re: Finding information

2008-01-20 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Edward Lewis wrote: > At 10:25 -0800 1/19/08, Bob Braden wrote: > > *> > > *> The RFC repository also has rfc-index.txt, which lists all the RFCs, > > > >And an RFC search engine... just type "1730" into the little box, > >and it will magically return the

Re: Finding information

2008-01-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
The information is available on the RFC Editor's web site at http://www.rfc-editor.org/ The RFC Database in various forms such as http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index2.html tells you the status of each RFC and the RFCs that are associated with it by obsoletes/obsoleted/updated relationships etc

Re: Finding information

2008-01-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:42:51PM +1300, Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 24 lines which said: > >> I want to find some information about IMAP and its extensions. Let's > >> say I found RFC 1730. How would I know that it had been obsoleted by > >> RFC 2060 and then by

Re: Finding information

2008-01-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:01:24AM -0800, Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 23 lines which said: > Or, you can google IMAP and come up with 3501 straight away... Bad idea. Not only it makes the RFC process depend on an external organization, but it often fails for the reasons expl

Re: Finding information

2008-01-21 Thread Willie Gillespie
Thanks to all who have responded to my question, either directly or to the list. They have been very helpful. Willie Willie Gillespie wrote: > As someone new to the IETF, how should I go about doing the following? > > I want to find some information about IMAP and its extensions. Let's > say I

Re: Finding information

2008-01-21 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
On 2008-01-21 11:24 Stephane Bortzmeyer said the following: On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:01:24AM -0800, Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 23 lines which said: Or, you can google IMAP and come up with 3501 straight away... Bad idea. Not only it makes the RFC process depend on

Re: Finding information

2008-01-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Henrik Levkowetz skrev: > > > On 2008-01-21 11:24 Stephane Bortzmeyer said the following: >> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:01:24AM -0800, >> Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 23 lines which said: >> >>> Or, you can google IMAP and come up with 3501 straight away... >> >> Bad idea. Not o

RE: Finding information

2008-01-22 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
site anyway, the site you really want to go to is the tools site. From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 22/01/2008 2:17 AM To: Henrik Levkowetz Cc: IETF Discussion; Willie Gillespie Subject: Re: Finding information Henrik Levkowetz skrev

RFCVision (Was Re: Finding information)

2008-01-22 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Willie, I came up with a tool (rfcvision) couple of years ago for personal use that did something like this. You can check it out at http://www.sureshk.com/rfcvision It is not production quality but it should help you. Let me know if you have any comments/suggestions. Cheers Suresh Wi