Not a bad idea. However, I don't see that this is a common enough type of thing used on the site to be necessary (or for vroom or whoever to spend the time setting it up). On another note, I believe I once saw a snippet for grabbing an RFC straight off the FTP. *digs through some stuff*

Ok, found the code. Here it is... *Disclaimer* I didn't write this, but I don't remember who did. If it was you, take credit for it in reply to this post. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
# example usage: rfc 1459     (gets the IRC RFC)

use strict;
$|++;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTTP::Status;

die("usage: rfc <rfc#>\n") unless defined($ARGV[0]);

my $rfcnum=$ARGV[0];
my $base="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc";
my $rfcurl=$base.$rfcnum.".txt";
my $rfcdir="$ENV{HOME}/rfcs";
my $rfcfile="${rfcdir}/rfc${rfcnum}.txt";
my $rfc;

my $rc=mirror($rfcurl,$rfcfile);

# any 4xx or 5xx error probably means we got no RFC
if($rc < 400) {
    open(RFC,"<$rfcfile") or die("open($rfcfile): $!\n");
    local $/ = undef;
    $rfc=<RFC>;
    close(RFC);

    print "$rfc";
} else {
    print "Failed to fetch ${rfcurl}: $rc ", status_message($rc), "\n"
+;
}
__END__

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in thread rfc:// by mischief

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