Re: What's mean about "bis" in the 2510bis?

["Wen-Cheng Wang" <wcwang@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In the following web pages, you can find more detail explanations
about the meaning of "bis":

http://www.groupstudy.com/archives/cisco/200107/msg01264.html

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/sip/faq/index.php?sid=231127&aktion=artikel&rubrik=001&id=8&lang=en

"bis" is the latin adverb for "two". That is why "bis" is used in ID
naming to indicate that it a revision of an existing RFC.


Wen-Cheng Wang


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Hoffman / VPNC" <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx>
To: "alan" <wlx712@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "ietf-pkix " <ietf-pkix@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: What's mean about "bis" in the 2510bis?


> 
> At 11:01 AM +0800 12/6/04, alan wrote:
> >       I usually found some "bis" in the IETF,such as 
> >draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2510bis.
> >       Who can tell me what's mean about "bis"?Thanks!
> 
>  From a future version of the Tao of the IETF:
> 
>     There are some informal rules for Internet Draft naming that have
>     evolved over the years.  Internet Drafts that revise existing RFCs
>     often have draft names with "bis" in them, meaning "the thing after
>     the RFC"; for example, a draft might be called
>     "draft-someone-rfc2345bis-00.txt".
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium
>