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  • initialism computing Request for Comments
  • initialism Rugby football club.
  • initialism UK, military, aviation Royal Flying Corps, previous title of Royal Air Force.
  • initialism UK Rangers Football Club

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  • A few years ago (in RFC 2804) the IETF rejected the idea of building eavesdropping capability into Internet protocols.

    Boing Boing: April 20, 2003 - April 26, 2003 Archives 2003

  • Inverse ARP, as documented in RFC 1293, functions much like ARP in that when a PVC is first signaled, the Frame Relay station sends out an address request packet.

    DLCI 2001

  • Cisco Systems devices support the following SNMP Traps (as outlined in RFC 1157): coldStart — Generated when a restart to save a configuration or software download occurs. warmStart — Generated when a restart event is received. linkDown — Generated from a WAN interface when a link is dropped due to abnormal conditions, such as lost carrier, lost

    TrapsEnabled 2001

  • The key Internet technologies are described in small standards for the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), and are often called RFC (Request For Comments).

    Planet XML 2009

  • The key Internet technologies are described in small standards for the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), and are often called RFC (Request For Comments).

    Planet XML 2009

  • IP ARP is described in RFC 826. add ip arp IP_address {Ethernet_address

    add ip arp 2001

  • And just as an example, while you indicated you decided to stop writing on subprime instruments in January of '06, for example, you backed an instrument called RFC III where that CDO was 93 percent subprime and seven percent HELOC home equity loans.

    David Fiderer: Deciphering Joe Cassno's Lies Before The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission 2010

  • The RFC was a wholly government owned agency that performed the function of a public bank.

    Privatize profits and socialize loss? Time for taxpayers to profit too.... 2008

  • The RFC was a government-owned bank that sidestepped the privately-owned Federal Reserve; but unlike the private banks with which it was competing, the RFC had to have the money in hand before lending it.

    FINANCIAL MELTDOWN: The Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History 2008

  • The RFC pitied the FBI, but the FBI called the RFC the "suicide corps" or the "sixty-minute men" because a total of sixty minutes in the air was allegedly the average lifespan of a pilot.

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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