Network Working Group RFC Editor
Request for Comments: 5540 USC/ISI
Category: Informational 7 April 2009
Network Working Group RFC Editor
Request for Comments: 5540 USC/ISI
Category: Informational 7 April 2009
40 Years of RFCs
40年的RFC
Status of This Memo
关于下段备忘
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
本备忘录为互联网社区提供信息。它没有规定任何类型的互联网标准。本备忘录的分发不受限制。
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Abstract
摘要
This RFC marks the 40th anniversary of the RFC document series.
本RFC纪念RFC文档系列40周年。
Forty years ago today, the first Request for Comments document, RFC 1, was published at UCLA [RFC1]. This was the first of a series that currently contains more than 5400 documents (roughly 160,000 pages) on computer networking in general and on the Internet protocols in particular. The RFC series emerged from the US government-funded research efforts that created the ARPANET and later the Internet. When the IETF was formed in the mid-1980s, RFCs became the primary publication vehicle for IETF standards, and thus became centered on the vendor and user communities.
四十年前的今天，第一份征求意见文件RFC1在加州大学洛杉矶分校[RFC1]发表。这是目前包含5400多篇（约160000页）关于计算机网络，特别是互联网协议的系列文件中的第一篇。RFC系列源于美国政府资助的研究工作，这些研究工作创建了ARPANET，后来又创建了互联网。当IETF在20世纪80年代中期成立时，RFC成为IETF标准的主要发布工具，因此成为供应商和用户社区的中心。
For the first 29 years, Jon Postel [Postel] was *the* RFC Editor, until his untimely death in October 1998. Postel, with substantial help from Joyce K. Reynolds, was responsible for the collection, editing, online publication, and archiving of the RFC documents. From 1978 until 1998, Postel was a research scientist at the USC Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI) in Marina del Rey, California. Postel was also the original IANA as well as Director of the Computer Networks Division at ISI.
在最初的29年里，乔恩·波斯特尔（Jon Postel）一直是RFC的编辑，直到他在1998年10月不合时宜地去世。Postel在Joyce K.Reynolds的大力帮助下，负责RFC文件的收集、编辑、在线发布和归档。从1978年到1998年，波斯特尔是加利福尼亚州玛丽娜·德雷市南加州大学信息科学研究所（USC/ISI）的研究科学家。Postel也是最初的IANA，也是ISI计算机网络部门的主管。
Upon the occasion of the 30th anniversary of RFC 1 and as a tribute to the massive contribution of Jon Postel, the RFC Editor published RFC 2555 [RFC2555] on April 7, 1999. This RFC contained recollections from three networking pioneers: Steve Crocker who wrote RFC 1, Vint Cerf whose long-range vision continues to guide us, and Jake Feinler who played a key role in the middle years of the RFC series.
在RFC 1成立30周年之际，为了纪念Jon Postel的巨大贡献，RFC编辑于1999年4月7日出版了RFC 2555[RFC2555]。这个RFC收录了来自三个网络先锋的回忆：Steve Crocker写了RFC 1，温顿·瑟夫的远景继续指导我们，Jake Feinler在RFC系列的中间扮演了关键的角色。
Ten more years have now passed, and we have reached the 40th anniversary of the RFC series. The series has more than doubled in size during the last ten years, and it is expected to continue far into the future. All the good things said in RFC 2555 still hold true ten years later.
十年多过去了，我们已经到了RFC系列的40周年纪念日。在过去十年中，该系列的规模翻了一番多，预计将持续到遥远的未来。十年后，RFC2555中所说的所有美好的事情仍然成立。
We should, however, note some changes that have occurred over the past ten years.
然而，我们应该注意到在过去十年中发生的一些变化。
o After Jon passed away, Joyce Reynolds and Bob Braden put together a small organization at USC/ISI to continue the RFC Editor function. This was motivated by a desire to honor Postel by continuing his remarkable effort and to provide a service to the Internet community.
o 乔恩去世后，乔伊斯·雷诺兹（Joyce Reynolds）和鲍勃·布拉登（Bob Braden）在南加州大学/三军情报局（USC/ISI）组建了一个小型组织，继续履行RFC编辑器的职能。这是出于对Postel的尊重，继续他的卓越努力，并为互联网社区提供服务。
o Funding of the RFC Editor, which had been supported by the US government until 1998, was taken over by the Internet Society. During 1998-2006, ISOC funded the RFC Editor under a series of annual contracts and extensions. ISOC put the function out for competitive bid for 2007 (USC/ISI was selected to provide RFC Editor services from 2007-2009), and the contract will be put out to bid again for post-2009.
o 直到1998年，美国政府一直支持RFC编辑的资金由互联网协会接管。1998-2006年期间，ISOC根据一系列年度合同和延期为RFC编辑器提供资金。ISOC在2007年对该功能进行了竞标（USC/ISI被选中从2007-2009年提供RFC编辑器服务），该合同将在2009年后再次进行竞标。
During 2009 there will be a significant transition for the RFC Editor function, as some new organization or set of organizations takes over this service that has been performed at USC/ISI continuously since 1978.
2009年期间，RFC编辑器功能将发生重大转变，因为一些新的组织或一组组织将接管自1978年以来一直在USC/ISI执行的这项服务。
o Many improvements have increased the efficiency and transparency of the RFC editorial process [RFCed09].
o 许多改进提高了RFC编辑过程的效率和透明度[RFCed09]。
o The RFC Editor formed an RFC Editorial Board, a group of people with broad and deep knowledge of the Internet and networking. One of its major functions is to assist the RFC Editor by reviewing RFCs in the Independent Submission stream.
o RFC编辑成立了一个RFC编辑委员会，该委员会由对互联网和网络有广泛深入了解的人组成。其主要功能之一是通过审查独立提交流中的RFC来协助RFC编辑器。
o An email list, rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org, was created to obtain community input on the RFC Editor functions.
o 电子邮件列表-interest@rfc-创建editor.org是为了获取社区对RFC编辑器功能的输入。
This document does not raise any security issues.
本文件不涉及任何安全问题。
It has been an honor for USC/ISI to serve the community during the past 31 years.
在过去的31年中，南加州大学/三军情报局很荣幸为社区服务。
[Postel] "Remembering Jonathan B. Postel", <http://www.postel.org/remembrances/>.
[Postel]“纪念Jonathan B.Postel”<http://www.postel.org/remembrances/>.
[RFCed09] Braden, R., Ginoza, S., and A. Hagens, "The RFC Editor Function at ISI", <http://www.rfc-editor.org/ RFCeditor.at.ISI.pdf>, January 2009.
[RFCed09]Braden，R.，Ginoza，S.，和A.Hagens，“ISI的RFC编辑器功能”<http://www.rfc-editor.org/ RFCeditor.at.ISI.pdf>，2009年1月。
[RFC1] Crocker, S., "Host Software", RFC 1, April 1969.
[RFC1]Crocker，S.，“主机软件”，RFC11969年4月。
[RFC2555] RFC Editor, et al., "30 Years of RFCs", RFC 2555, April 1999.
[RFC2555]RFC编辑，等，“RFC的30年”，RFC 25551999年4月。
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