Submission + - Following the Chain - RFCs to Laws
AlexNicoll writes: "I recently completed a DNSSEC library for the .NET platform (thanks to Wouter @ NLNetLabs for his help!). While writing the library, I encounted the extremely entertaining concept of following the long chain of DNS related RFCs on the IETF website. Some RFCs were obsoleted, some were updated, some updates were obsoleted by other articles, and some were never really formally related or linked, so even finding them was a challenge in search-fu. Finally, I think I got the whole picture, but I'm not sure. Then I got to thinking — searching for the relevant RFCs in the IETF RFC chains was a lot like trying to figure out how (in the US) local, regional, state, and federal laws interact with themselves and each other. Since I just recently moved, I thought I ought to know the rules of the place I live in. It turns out to be just as non-trivial, if not more so, than parsing RFC chains. So here's the question — given that the processes are somewhat similar, does anyone know of a project that has tried to consolidate all the information in one place, so that it's in one comprehensive and up-to-date document, on the legal side or the RFC side?"
