[Data-modeling] RFCs that define a protocol

[Tom Morris]

First off, a huge "thank you" to Bryan for finding all these abandoned
discussions and getting them into the bug system so that action gets
taken on them.

Concerning RFCs, I'd like to see "Internet Protocol" get sorted out
before "RFC" is tackled.  There are a bunch of really good questions
from September, 2007 here
http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005c8ec02 and
I asked back in March that, at a minimum, the type include a
description so people could tell what the heck it is
http://www.freebase.com/type/schema/computer/internet_protocol

Is it only protocols that run over TCP?  Only those defined by the
IETF?  Any protocol between two computers (including ISO, IEEE, ITU-T,
etc)?

Depending on the answer to this question, perhaps we don't need an
"RFC" type at all, but rather a "protocol specification/standard" or
some other type.

Robert gave a pretty comprehensive answer for the IETF side of things
and I can help extend that to include some of the other standards
groups if it turns out to be appropriate.

Tom

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Vishal Talwar <vishal at metaweb.com> wrote:
> There is an open request for adding an "RFCs that define this protocol" property to the Internet Protocol type. Since I know almost nothing about the subject matter, I'd like to open this up for input from everyone here. Specifically,
>
> 1. Should this property be limited to the Internet Protocol type, or can RFCs define other types of protocols?
>
> 2. There should be a new type to model RFCs, and I'm considering the following properties:
>   - Status (informational|experimental|...)
>   - Date published (/type/datetime)
>   - Published by (/people/person)
>   - Obsoleted by (rfc)
>   - Specifies protocol (internet protocol)
>
>   Am I missing anything?
>
> 3. Should RFCs be assigned keys that correspond to their serial numbers? We could then easily generate URL-template-based links to RFCs themselves, assuming the IETF URLs are regular.
>
> The original discussion took place here:
> http://www.freebase.com/discuss/threads/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000009f237f8?domain=/computer
>
> Thanks!
> Vishal
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