Re: please review rfc-index.xml

[Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>]

At 06:47 PM 3/18/2003 -0800, Aaron Falk wrote:
> Well, you could start with
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rsync-help.html...
I don't think we're communicating. Yes, I maintain a mirror at Cisco as 
well, which internal versions of the rfc.html and drafts.html files 
reference. I also generate, from the indices, meta-information about the 
directories themselves, for the lawyers, PR folks, docs folks, management, 
yes the engineers, and various and sundry others to use. It's easier than 
answering the dumbo questions that I periodically get.

Sample dumbo question and response, exchanged today with Cisco PR, follows:

At 03:19 PM 3/18/2003 -0800, Jane Courtenay wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> I heard that Cisco authors about 10% of all the standards passed by the 
> IETF.  Does that sound like an accurate number?
>
> Thanks
At 03:33 PM 3/18/2003 -0800, I wrote:
> At 03:19 PM 3/18/2003 -0800, Jane Courtenay wrote:
> > I heard that Cisco authors about 10% of all the standards passed by the 
> > IETF.  Does that sound like an accurate number?
> Take a look at http://wwwin-people/fred/std.html and 
> http://wwwin-people/fred/stds.html. The first is a list of the 874 
> documents that the IETF currently has standardized; the second is the 354 
> document subset that has one or more Cisco authors. Note that many are 
> updates of each other.
You can find those same two files (I have externalized today's edition for 
you) at
    ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/internal/stds.html
    ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/rfc-index/std.html

I'm sure *somebody* at every company winds up doing this, for the same set 
of reasons.