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        FYI0017        
        RFC 4677

        Title:      The Tao of IETF - 
                    A Novice's Guide to the Internet 
                    Engineering Task Force 
        Author:     P. Hoffman, S. Harris
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       September 2006
        Mailbox:    paul.hoffman at vpnc.org, 
                    srh at umich.edu
        Pages:      50
        Characters: 127383
        

        I-D Tag:    draft-hoffman-taobis-08.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4677.txt

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