If only there were some uniform resource locator system, whereby we could use a
string to both identify and locate such a document, and include such a string
*in* our specifications.
A pipe dream, I know...
On 09/05/2011, at 10:41 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
On May 8, 2011, at 7:44 58PM, John Levine wrote:
Today if you're an IEEE type, and you wonder where to find RFC 793, or
you're wondering what RFC 793 is about, and you look it up in IEEE
Xplore, the online library that all electrical engineers use, and that
their employers have site subscriptions for, you'll find ... nothing.
Yes, you can find it in Google, but Google isn't a particularly good
place to look for engineering papers. Xplore is. RFCs aren't in the
ACM Digital Library, either, same problem.
Nor is it in Google Scholar, which is generally where I look first.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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