Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of RFC 1 published by Steve Crocker at UCLA and covering host software for processing messages. The contents are forgettable but signify the start of an initiative that has broadly impacted how network standards are shared.

Here's a look at some other historical anniversaries during this year that I think are interesting. You'll see an article covering one of these from time to time over the next few months.

25 Years

  • RFC 896: Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks (Nagel)
  • RFC 903: A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP)
  • RFC 906: Bootstrap Loading using TFTP

20 Years

  • RFC 1094: Network File System Protocol specification (NFS)

15 Years

  • RFC 1597: Address Allocation for Private Internets
  • RFC 1630: Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW
  • RFC 1631: The IP Network Address Translator (NAT)
  • RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)

10 Years

  • RFC 2516: A Method for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE)
  • RFC 2518: HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring (WEBDAV)
  • RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP 1.1)
  • RFC 2617: Basic and Digest Access Authentication