RFC editor

The RFC editor is the publisher of the Request for Comments (RFC). The RFC editor brings approved RFCs into their final form, publishes them and archives them in an online directory at rfc-editor.org.

Steve Crocker founded the RFC series in 1969 with the publication of RFC 1 . In 1971 Jon Postel took over the role of the RFC editor and shaped the process and its current form over the next 27 years. Postel recruited helpers who, after his death in 1998 at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI), established a group to perform the role of RFC editor. In 2009 the Californian company Association Management Solutions (AMS) was commissioned with the task of the RFC editor.

The RFC editor was financed by DARPA until 1998 , on whose behalf the Arpanet was developed. In 1998 the Internet Society took over the financing. Since 2018, the RFC editor has been funded by the IETF administration company.

Web links

https://www.rfc-editor.org/

Individual evidence

↑ H. Flanagan (Ed.): RFC 8700 - Fifty Years of RFCs . IETF. December 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2019.
↑ https://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/AMS-RPC-Public-Final-2009.pdf
↑ https://www.rfc-editor.org/about/

[rfc8700-1] H. Flanagan (Ed.): RFC 8700 - Fifty Years of RFCs . IETF. December 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2019.

[2] ttps://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/AMS-RPC-Public-Final-2009.pdf

[3] ttps://www.rfc-editor.org/about/