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Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

2011-05-10 08:27:58
It seems to me that not having the series available in IEEE
Xplore and having documents in the ACM Digital Library but not
indexed by RFC number is a problem in that searching for the
documents is a little harder than it ought to be and is our
problem (even though typing "RFC 793" into at least  few
general-purpose search engines does yield pointers to non-cost
repositories).  Requests to fix both the ACM and IEEE problems
have been made to the relevant folks.

It's not just that.  A little poking around in the ACM DL reveals that
they don't have any RFCs published after May 2004.  It looks like
someone did a one time data dump, and nothing since.  It's also fairly
annoying that if you aren't a subscriber, they want you to pay $15
before they'll give you a URL, but I suppose their funding has to come
from somewhere.

In IEEE Xplore, I can't find any RFCs at all, no matter how I search
for them.  Search for "Transmission Control Protocol" and you'll find
lots of articles but no RFCs.

R's,
John

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