[1] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

rfc
     remote function call sap, cpic
     
     

[2] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

rfc
     request for comments internet, rfc
     
     

[3] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

rfc /r-f-c/ n. request for comment one of a long-established series
   of numbered internet informational documents and standards widely
   followed by commercial software and freeware in the internet and unix
   communities. perhaps the single most influential one has been rfc-822
   the internet mail-format standard. the rfcs are unusual in that they
   are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiative and
   reviewed by the internet at large, rather than formally promulgated
   through an institution such as ansi. for this reason, they remain known
   as rfcs even once adopted as standards.

   the rfc tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact
   standard writing done by individuals or small working groups has
   important advantages over the more formal, committee-driven process
   typical of ansi or iso. emblematic of some of these advantages is the
   existence of a flourishing tradition of `joke' rfcs; usually at least
   one a year is published, usually on april 1st. well-known joke rfcs have
   included 527 "arpawocky", r. merryman, ucsd; 22 june 1973, 748
   "telnet randomly-lose option", mark r. crispin; 1 april 1978, and 1149
   "a standard for the transmission of ip datagrams on avian carriers", d.
   waitzman, bbn stc; 1 april 1990. the first was a lewis carroll
   pastiche; the second a parody of the tcp-ip documentation style, and the
   third a deadpan skewering of standards-document legalese, describing
   protocols for transmitting internet data packets by carrier pigeon
   since actually implemented; see appendix a. see also infinite-monkey
   theorem.

   the rfcs are most remarkable for how well they work -- they frequently
   manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal
   specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often
   haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to
   truly worldwide proportions.


see also:
infinite-monkey theorem 

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

rfc
     
        request for comments
     
     
see also:
request for comments 

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