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>> So... why is the finished standard specificstion called a "request for
>> comments"? This has always bothered me...
>
> History. :-) There are a number of phases it goes through, including
> proposal, draft standard, recommended standard, and (I think) required
> standard. There are also requests for comments that aren't intended to
> ever turn into standards.
And yet, if you look up the defintion of (say) the Routing Information
Protocol, it's defined in RFC 2453. Which makes it sound like they're
*requesting* people to comment on a possible standard, rather than
*defining* a finished standard.
History, I guess. Much like the way that a parcel traveling by car is a
shipment, and a parcel travelling by ship is cargo... ;-)
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