IETF RFC reference

ID ietf_rfc

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Reference to a Request for Comments document of the IETF and the RFC Editor, by its number, sometimes with a section. Protocol registries and standards documents cite their sources this way.

Categories: Internet, Universal unique identifiers
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
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Regular expression

^\[?RFC ?\d{1,5}(, Section [\d.]+)?\]?$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
[RFC 1918]	Address Allocation for Private Internets, cited in the IANA IPv4 special-purpose registry
[RFC 791, Section 3.2]	RFC number with a section

Sources

doc: https://www.rfc-editor.org/
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments

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