philip greenspun was the rfc editor until 1998 just provide the family name.
philip greenspun was the rfc editor until 1998 just provide the family name.
who was the rfc editor until 1998 just provide the family name?
philip greenspun
postel was the rfc editor from 1969 until his death, and wrote and edited many important rfcs, including rfc 791, rfc 792 and rfc 793, which define the basic protocols of the internet protocol suite, and rfc 2223, "instructions to rfc authors". between 1982 and 1984 postel co-authored the rfcs which became the foundation of today's dns (rfc 819, rfc 881, rfc 882 and rfc 920) which were joined in 1995 by rfc 1591 which he also co-wrote.









































in total, he wrote or co-authored more than 200 rfcs.
jon postel
the official source for rfcs on the world wide web is the rfc editor. almost any published rfc can be retrieved via a url of the form http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5000.txt, shown for rfc 5000.









































every rfc is submitted as plain ascii text and is published in that form, but may also be available in other formats.









































for easy access to the metadata of an rfc, including abstract, keywords, author(s), publication date, errata, status, and especially later updates, the rfc editor site offers a search form with many features. a redirection sets some efficient parameters, example: .
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