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Request For Comment or Remote Function Call

Two possibilities I know of:<p> <p> 1) A Request for Comments (RFC) is a formal document from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that is the result of committee drafting and subsequent review by interested parties. Some RFCs are informational in nature. Of those that are intended to become Internet standards, the final version of the RFC becomes the standard and no further comments or changes are permitted. Change can occur, however, through subsequent RFCs that supercede or elaborate on all or parts of previous RFCs. <p> 2) An RFC (Remote Function Call) is an application program interface to R/3 applications from SAP, the German company that sells a coordinated set of applications and databases to Fortune 1000 companies. SAP customers who wish to write other applications that communicate with R/3 applications and databases can use the RFC interface to do so. <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> Also 3) Rain Flow Counting - A method for assessing the fatigue damage due to dynamic period motions.