RFC 3092: Etymology of "Foo"

Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without any proper explanation or…

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Outgoing relationships (4 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2606: Reserved Top Level DNS Names
Informative reference — RFC 1639: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR)
Informative reference — RFC 1037: NFILE - a file access protocol
Informative reference — RFC 269: Some Experience with File Transfer

Incoming relationships (4 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 7042: IANA Considerations and IETF Protocol and Documentation Usage for IEEE 802 Parameters
Informatively referenced by — RFC 4343: Domain Name System (DNS) Case Insensitivity Clarification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6931: Additional XML Security Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9231: Additional XML Security Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)