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Standards bodies

The RFC index

Every RFC ever published, with authors, dates, status and the obsoletes/updates graph between them — as one XML document.

It is a genuinely large document and a good test of anything that claims to stream: at 13 MB it is well past the point where loading a whole tree into memory is a reasonable default.

The obsoletes and updates relationships make it one of the few public XML documents where the interesting structure is a graph rather than a list.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.xml

Publisher
RFC Editor
Host
www.rfc-editor.org
Format
Not one of the formats we document
Root when listed
rfc-index (2026-08-18)
Size when listed
13.1 MB

What the last check saw

The endpoint answered, but the document is past our five megabyte snapshot cap — our limit, not their outage, which is why it does not count toward delisting.Document is 5 MB, over the 5 MB limit.Checked 2026-08-18 16:02 UTC

Structure

No structure to show — and rather than a table of dashes, this says so. Structure is recorded from a successful fetch and never copied from the entry above: a directory that describes documents it has not read is a directory that is wrong without knowing it.

Recent checks

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