Re: Finding information

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn at MIT.EDU>]

On Jan 18, 2008, at 18:55, Willie Gillespie wrote:
> As someone new to the IETF, how should I go about doing the following?
>
> I want to find some information about IMAP and its extensions.  Let's
> say I found RFC 1730.  How would I know that it had been obsoleted by
> RFC 2060 and then by RFC 3501?  How do I find the extensions?  I don't
> necessarily want to search through a list of 5000 entries to find  
> what I
> want.

The RFC repository also has rfc-index.txt, which lists all the RFCs,  
and for each, other RFCs that update or replace them, or are updated  
or replaced by them.  That'd be a good place to start.

Ken

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