From doug at will.to  Wed May 24 17:43:19 2006
From: doug at will.to (Doug Hughes)
Date: Wed May 24 21:42:42 2006
Subject: [LOPSA-Standards-Project] Some RFC categorisations
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On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:22 +0200, Phil Pennock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Doug Hughes pointed me here, and suggested that my categorised and
> hierarchical list of some RFCs might be welcome; of course, he hasn't
> seen it.  ;^)
> 
> I've not merged a large number of recent ones in; entries are duplicated
> as I think appropriate; some obsolete ones are deliberately kept;
> there's insufficient reference to the obsoleted RFCs.  Many are probably
> missing.  However, there's probably over 1200 in there, after de-dup.
> 
> Some of the titles are elided with {...}, particularly where parentheses
> in the title give the short form.  Square brackets give BCP/FYI/STD
> references.  Some items have {tagset value} or {tagset tag value}
> afterwards, eg {DNS-RR SRV 33}.  {inf} generally means "informative" and
> {obs} obsolete.  Hierarchy is one-space indentation.
> 
> My vague plan is to sort out an LDAP schema to hold titles, updated
> references, obsoleted references, categories and tagset values, updating
> the schema whenever I want to search on a new registry.  So I'd have
> something like the following, where everything before "rfcCategory"
> comes straight from the RFC index:
> 

So, I've had a chance to review all this, and I must say it's a
marvelous base..

The question I'm grappling with, is how can we leverage this to start
filling out these standards with stuff that's really useful to lopsa
members and the rest beyond, not just IETF standards, but IEEE, EIA/TIA,
and everything else.

I'd really like us to take what you've got and construct a monster wiki
so that people could start using it and fleshing it out. Well, yes,
there's the issue of personal time and all that, but if there was an
easy way to do that, it'd be awesome.

I've got most of the categories (higher level) fixed up for the
standards module already extending with ideas gathered from your list.