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by dogleash 564 days ago
That's apocryphal, the name just lasted beyond the original workflow of a now 55 year old publishing system.

The idea that a published RFC is a final word is a newer idea too. Yeah, you can't modify an RFC, you have to publish a newer one, but that was a pretty good way of doing distributed change control in 1969.