RFC 1111: Request for comments on Request for Comments: Instructions to RFC authors
This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 1543, RFC 2223.
Current document in this lineage: RFC 7322 — RFC Style Guide
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Document record
- Document ID
- RFC1111
- Published
- August 1989
- Authors
- J. Postel
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 6
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 825
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 5 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
Referenced by
2 later RFCs formally update or obsolete part of this document.
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