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RFC 20 status change last call: References to appendices

2014-12-31 14:38:18
Hi.

There are a number of references to "appendices" in this document - Section 4.2 (footnotes 2 and 3) and Section 6.5, but the version of RFC 20 available online at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc20.txt does not have any appendices.

It is possible that this is because the appendices were not reproduced when the document was put into machine readable form in 1999. After some research, I suspect that in fact the references are to the appendices of the American National Standard (ANSI) X3.4-1968 - the references in the Section 4.2 footnotes to Appendices A5.2 and B4 almost certainly are. I was unable to access a copy of the original 1968 version of ANSI X3.4 (it appears that there are copies in the Library of Congress and the library at the University of Wisconsin but it's a long walk ;-) ). However, I found a facsimile of the 1986 version. It is clear that Appendices A5.2 and B5 (as opposed to B4) contain relevant material (the 1977 update was apparently a very minor affair).

If indeed the second case is correct and the RFC document never had any appendices, I suggest that an addition is made to the colophon to point out where the appendices can be found, that is ANSI X3.4-1968. This doesn't quite cover the wording in Section 6.5 - are we allowed to alter this to point to the appendices of ANSI X3.4-1968?

If the original of RFC 20 did indeed contain these appendices, fixing the issue is a bit more tedious.

Happy New Year,
Elwyn

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