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From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  RFC
       Remote Function Call (SAP, CPIC)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:



  RFC
       Request For Comments (Internet, RFC)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  RFC /R-F-C/ n. [Request For Comment] One of a long-established series
     of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely
     followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix
     communities. Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822
     (the Internet mail-format standard). The RFCs are unusual in that they
     are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiative and
     reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than formally promulgated
     through an institution such as ANSI. For this reason, they remain known
     as RFCs even once adopted as standards.
  
     The RFC tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact
     standard writing done by individuals or small working groups has
     important advantages over the more formal, committee-driven process
     typical of ANSI or ISO. Emblematic of some of these advantages is the
     existence of a flourishing tradition of `joke' RFCs; usually at least
     one a year is published, usually on April 1st. Well-known joke RFCs have
     included 527 ("ARPAWOCKY", R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973), 748
     ("Telnet Randomly-Lose Option", Mark R. Crispin; 1 April 1978), and 1149
     ("A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers", D.
     Waitzman, BBN STC; 1 April 1990). The first was a Lewis Carroll
     pastiche; the second a parody of the TCP-IP documentation style, and the
     third a deadpan skewering of standards-document legalese, describing
     protocols for transmitting Internet data packets by carrier pigeon
     (since actually implemented; see Appendix A). See also {Infinite-Monkey
     Theorem}.
  
     The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work -- they frequently
     manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal
     specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often
     haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to
     truly worldwide proportions.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  RFC
       
          {Request For Comments}
       
       

















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