Request For Comments reference guide

This specification has been revised 4 times since RFC 160 (1971). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 160 (1971)
  2. RFC 170 (1971)
  3. RFC 200 (1971)
  4. RFC 999 (1987)
  5. RFC 1000 (1987)

Current versions — implement against these

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 1000 (August 1987).