RFC-160
by Darius Kazemi, June 9 2019
In 2019 I'm reading one RFC a day in chronological order starting from the very first one. More on this project here. There is a table of contents for all my RFC posts.
A not-so-brief list
RFC-160 is titled “RFC Brief List”. It's unsigned, although its author is listed as the SRI-NIC, which means it was probably Jeanne B. North / Reddy Dively. It's dated May 18th, 1971.
The technical content
This is a list of RFCs up to May 1971. RFCs are listed in RFC number order, and each entry contains a title (or partial title) and the document's NIC number in addition to the RFC number itself.
Analysis
One curious thing here is that it's missing some past RFCs, but that's because the NIC often received and then applied numbers retroactively to the documents. For example, RFC-151 is dated May 10th. And this catalog is dated May 18th. It's possible that Shoshani wrote RFC-151 on May 10th, mailed it to the NIC for distribution, and the NIC hadn't officially assigned it an RFC number by May 18th. It's also possible that this particular RFC is future dated, that it was authored closer to the 10th and given an approximate publication date based on estimates for how long it would take to make enough copies and mail them.
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I'm Darius Kazemi. I'm an independent technologist and artist. I do a lot of work on the decentralized web with ActivityPub, including a Node.js reference implementation, an RSS-to-ActivityPub converter, and a fork of Mastodon, called Hometown. You can support my work via my Patreon.