Re: BCPs and STDs

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu>]

On Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:47:02 PM +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum 
<iljitsch at muada.com> wrote:

> You really need to put everything that people may be looking for on a
> single page and point to that page with big, bright arrows. Or better
> yet, make that page your homepage. Or better yet, make that page the
> IETF homepage. It's very strange that the list of IETF standards  isn't
> kept on the IETF site.

Not really.  IETF standards are published and archived by another 
organization, which also provides the resources for archiving and 
distributing those documents.

What would be strange, if it were true, would be that there isn't an easy 
way to access IETF standards from the IETF web site.  Fortunately, that's 
not the case.  The _very first_ thing on the IETF site, even before things 
like the IETF logo, is a search box.  I've found that to be extremely 
useful.  It finds internet-drafts and published RFC's based on full or 
partial filenames, titles, content, RFC/BCP/STD numbers, etc.


The original message which started this thread was from someone looking for 
indexes so he could do things like look up an STD or BCP and find out its 
name and maybe get a link to the document.  He gave this example:

> It's a lot easier, when all you might have is a hand held device, to be
> able to click though links to see even just the title of a document when
> someone asks "what do you think of BCP 58?"

If I go to www.ietf.org and type "BCP 58" (including quotes) into the 
search box, the first hit is the document itself (RFC3233).  The second hit 
is the tombstone with the publication announcement; the excerpt includes 
the title of the document, "Defining the IETF".

If instead I type "BCP 58" without the quotes, RFC3233 becomes the second 
hit instead of the first.

If I type "BCP58", I get the BCP directory index.


-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+ at cmu.edu>
  Sr. Research Systems Programmer
  School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
  Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA


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