RFC
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Definition
The RFC (Request for Comments) series contains technical and organizational documents about the Internet, including the technical specifications and policy documents produced by the Internet Engineering Task Force. Some of these are standards, some have just informational or experimental status. The publications process has been design to be fast and there is a peer control mechanism (i.e. an RFC first must be published as an Internet Draft.
Today there are over 3000 RFCs (some obsolete, e.g. superceded by more recent ones). Some of the most popular RFCs concern SMTP, URI, TCP, Domain Names, HTTP, MIME, i.e. all the things that make Internet work.