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This article is from the AmiTCP/IP FAQ, by Mike Meyer with numerous contributions by others.

6.6: What is an RFC?

RFCs are documents that are used to define the Internet standards. RFC
stands for Request For Comments. 
De facto: Requirement For Conformance. (thanks Michael) 
RFC are available from many FTP sites including ftp.wustl.edu,
<ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/> ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk <ftp://ftp.doc.ic.ac.uk/> and
ftp.demon.co.uk. <ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/> NIC <ftp://rs.internic.net/> is
the official place in the United States. UUNet <ftp://ftp.uu.net/> is the
best connected place to get them in the USA. 
The file "rfc-index.txt" (which should be available on every RFC
repository) contains an index of all published RFC's  

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