Request for Comments

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Request for Comments

Summary

Request for Comments ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,334 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Request for Comments is credited with the discovery of Steve Crocker[2].
  • Request for Comments's publisher is recorded as RFC Editor[3].
  • Request for Comments's operator is recorded as Internet Society[4].
  • Request for Comments's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 195844503[5].
  • Request for Comments's GND ID is recorded as 4813216-0[6].
  • Request for Comments's ISSN is recorded as 2070-1721[7].
  • Request for Comments's subclass of is recorded as publication[8].
  • Request for Comments's subclass of is recorded as recommendation[9].
  • Request for Comments's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • Request for Comments's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06cy5[11].
  • Request for Comments's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Request for Comments[12].
  • Request for Comments's main subject is recorded as internet standard[13].
  • Request for Comments's media type is recorded as application/rfc+xml[14].
  • Request for Comments's JUFO ID is recorded as 71391[15].
  • Request for Comments's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0518621[16].
  • Request for Comments's described by source is recorded as RFC 7322: RFC Style Guide[17].
  • Request for Comments's described by source is recorded as RFC 1796: Not All RFCs are Standards[18].
  • Request for Comments's topic has template is recorded as Template:IETF RFC[19].
  • Request for Comments's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Request for comments'}[20].
  • Request for Comments's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/rfc[21].
  • Request for Comments's used by is recorded as Internet[22].
  • Request for Comments's DOI prefix is recorded as 10.17487[23].
  • Request for Comments's main Wikidata property is recorded as P892[24].
  • Request for Comments's properties for this type is recorded as P892[25].
  • Request for Comments's properties for this type is recorded as P407[26].

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Works and Contributions

Request for Comments is credited with the discovery of Steve Crocker[2].

Why It Matters

Request for Comments ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,334 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 61 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . RFC 6635: RFC Editor Model (Version 2). wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . RFC 7991: The "xml2rfc" Version 3 Vocabulary. Retrieved . iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . ISSN Portal. Retrieved . portal.issn.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Request for Comments. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/request-for-comments
MLA “Request for Comments.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/request-for-comments.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_request-for-comments_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Request for Comments}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/request-for-comments}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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