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RFC (Request For Comment). Numbered Internet standards use this quixotic name. The RFC people have a fetish about not changing a document once it has been published. It never gets marked obsolete. There are never any forward references in it to its replacements or additions. You have to scan all the RFCs (Request For Comments) looking for relevant ones and sort out manually which ones are still valid. It is a highly error-prone procedure. What they are doing is akin to a hazing ritual. Presumably, there is somewhere a proper index to help you avoid obsolete RFCs and find related ones. In the meantime, here is my mini-list of RFCs I have found interesting. Sometimes the older obsolete RFCs are easier to understand, even if they are dated. They can be useful to get a general drift before you plunge into a newer, more lawyerly specification.

RFC 319 Network host status
RFC 768 describes UDP (User Datagram Protocol), User Datagram Protocol.
RFC 791 defines the IP (Internet Protocol) protocol.
RFC 815describes how datagrams are reassembled.
RFC 821 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 2821 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 5321describes the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) send mail protocol. .
RFC 959 describes FTP (File Transfer Protocol), File Transfer Protocol.
RFC 977 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 3977 describes NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol). .
RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 describe the format of a domain name.
RFC 1305 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 5905 Network time protocol. NTP (Network Time Protocol).
RFC 1522 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 2045 MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) part 2, non ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange).
RFC 1734 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 5034 POP3 (Post Office Protocol version 3) : AUTHentication command. .
RFC 1738 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 4248 URL (Uniform Resource Locator) formats.
RFC 1777 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 3494 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. .
RFC 1778 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 3494 The String Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes in LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol). .
RFC 1876 how latitude and longitude are stored in a DNS record.
RFC 1889 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 3550 describes the RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) for streaming audio and video. .
RFC 1939 POP3 : Post Office Protocol - version 3, email protocol for picking up mail.
RFC 1945 HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) 1.0 specification. for the 1.1 specification.
RFC 2044 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 2279 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 3629 Unicode UTF-8, .
RFC 2045 MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies, specifies the various headers used to describe the structure of MIME messages.
RFC 2046 MIME Part Two: Media Types, describes the general structure of the MIME media typing system and defines an initial set of media types.
RFC 2047 MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for non-ASCII text
RFC 2048 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 4288 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 6838 MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures. and RFC 4289.
RFC 2049 MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples, Provides some illustrative examples of MIME message formats
RFC 2068 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 2616 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 7230 HTTP/1.1 protocol. .
RFC 2069 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 2617 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 7235 describes the format of HTTP headers for digest login user id and password.
RFC 2104 HMAC (Hashed Message Authentication Code) Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
RFC 2183 MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and HTTP Content-Disposition
RFC 2222 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 4422 POP3: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL). and RFC 4752.
RFC 2279 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 3629 UTF-8 for encoding both 16-bit and 32-bit Unicode. .
RFC 2396 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 3986 describes the format of an URL. .
RFC 2422 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 3802 describes the format of a voice-quality 32K ADPCM format sound stream. .
RFC 2449 POP3: Extension Mechanism
RFC 7230 updates the HTTP 1.1 protocol
RFC 2617 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 7235 describes the format of HTTP headers for login user id and password. Login authentication protocol.
RFC 2781UTF-16 for encoding both 16-bit and 32-bit Unicode.
RFC 2822 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 5322 describes the format of an email address.
RFC 2965 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 6265 HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) state: how cookies are handled
RFC 3156 PGP/MIME: for encrypting email enclosures.
RFC 3206 POP3: The SYS and AUTH POP (Post Office Protocol) Response Codes
RFC 3280 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 5280 X.509 public key certificates.
RFC 3467 Overview of DNS (Domain Name Service)
RFC 3494 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
RFC 3550 describes the RTP for streaming audio and video.
RFC 3629 UTF-8 for encoding both 16-bit and 32-bit, revised.
RFC 3802 describes the format of a voice-quality 32K ADPCM format sound stream.
RFC 3977 describes NNTP.
RFC 3984 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 6184 describes the H.264 motion video codec.
RFC 3986 describes the format of an URI (Uniform Resource Indicator), IPV6.
RFC 4248 URL formats.
RFC 6838 MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures.
RFC 4289 MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures.
RFC 4422 POP3 : Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL).
RFC 4752 POP3 : Kerberos.
RFC 4880 Open PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). PGP encryption for general use now the patent has expired. Inline PGP.
RFC 4938 (obsolete) replaced by RFC 5578 PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)Over Ethernet ( PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet)).
RFC 5034 POP3 : AUTHentication command.
RFC 5126 digital signatures
RFC 5280 X.509 public key certificates
RFC 5321 describes the SMTP send mail protocol.
RFC 5322 describes the format of an email address.
RFC 5905 Network time protocol. NTP.
RFC 6265 HTML state: how cookies are handled

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