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Wow, a URL redirect. Impressive. /s If this is intended to actually be useful, you should follow the other suggestions here and add some lists (most popular) or categories (e-mail, web, routing protocols) or something. The way it is now, I imagine it took longer to purchase the domain name than it did to code up the redirect.

Yes. It doesn't even need an index or anything like that, as the URL to RFCs are pretty straightforward: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1738 I don't understand why people are upvoting this.

It's not very useful.

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Cool, but the documentation projects I really use often are ones that take the often antiquated presentation of the open-source site and puts it together in an easier-to-search/view way. Example: http://docs.gl/ What about...oh I dunno, maybe a few lists? By category, by number? Maybe a nice 'reader mode' for the actual .txt files? Sorry, maybe that's outside the scope of what you're going for here, I just don't usua…

I would love to say rfc.me/bgp (for instance) and get what I’m looking for without wading through obsoleted RFCs. This would be a solid next step for the author. Significantly more work though.

This would be an excellent idea and I will absolutely throw this in a todo list.

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Cool, but the documentation projects I really use often are ones that take the often antiquated presentation of the open-source site and puts it together in an easier-to-search/view way. Example: http://docs.gl/ What about...oh I dunno, maybe a few lists? By category, by number? Maybe a nice 'reader mode' for the actual .txt files? Sorry, maybe that's outside the scope of what you're going for here, I just don't usua…

I would love to say rfc.me/bgp (for instance) and get what I’m looking for without wading through obsoleted RFCs. This would be a solid next step for the author. Significantly more work though.

http://altsoph.com/pp/rfc/ is the exact opposite. A fun visualization that will get you to go look at all those obsoleted RFCs!

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I wrote a funny version of this once, that shows Lego sets with the same number as an RFC. Someone got a domain for it, but it appears to have lapsed: http://rfcdothelp.herokuapp.com/

This is excellent.

I’m glad you like it. If there’s no matching LEGO set, you get a Unikitty.

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This is amusing but is not really useful. Google + "RFC" + number seems faster. Or if you're going to bookmark this website to go faster, why not just bookmark https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000 ?

Even faster is DuckDuckGo. "!rfc 1000" directly sends you to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1000 without a SERP.

Also, some distributions ship RFCs in a package (e.g. on Arch Linux: `pacman -S rfc`), which works without internet access.

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Honestly, I can't consistently get the right version of RFCs (the tools.ietf.blah one) when I Google, so this is useful because I can actually remember the URL.

On DuckDuckGo, enter "!rfc 1234" to get redirected to the correct page on tools.ietf.org directly.
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