Re: [edu-team] Educational RFCs

[Fred Baker <[e-mail]>]

Speaking for myself; I think this is a reasonable idea. We once had a related series, the FYI series, and had an entire area fir them, called User Services.

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> On Jun 22, 2021, at 8:34 AM, [e-mail] wrote:
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> Greetings to the edu-team,
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> Apologies if this has already been discussed in the past. I searched the mail archives as much as possible but couldn’t find anything similar.
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> On a course on Internet Protocols at the University of Piraeus (https://www.ds.unipi.gr/en/courses/internet-protocols-2/), Professor Rouskas and I, have begun a series of laboratory exercises where we want our students to become adept at being able to read and implement internet protocol specification documents, specifically from the IETF.
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> With that goal in mind, we wrote a small IETF-like draft (using xml2rfc) where we outlined a very simple protocol in detail and asked them to read and implement it.
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> That got us thinking whether it makes sense for the IETF and specifically for the edu-team to create a series of educational RFCs with the goal of providing material for Universities for preparing students/future-engineers to be ready to participate in the IETF.
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> We do understand that this is not the current focus of the edu-team and the IETF in particular, but we were thinking whether it makes sense to expand the charter to allow creating short introductory RFCs, where attendees/students could be introduced into reading and understanding specs at a smaller scale.
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> Regards,
> Evangelos Haleplidis.
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