Re: digest of magic/file discussion

Greg Roelofs (newt@pobox.com)
Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:52:45 -0500 (CDT)

>> I assume we're talking about an informational RFC, not a standards-track
>
>OK, what is the difference? Is there a document describing the RFC process?

Um...that's one of the things I know exists but don't know where to find.
It's probably available from the IETF or IANA sites (a.k.a. www.isi.edu,
I believe). The standards-track one is big, hairy, and *really* slow. It
only took a year to get PNG done (well, not counting the delay in actually
getting a number assigned); the standards one can drag on much longer than
that, apparently.

Greg