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Re: [rfc-i] I need your "good" RFCs

Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Fri, 12 February 2021 04:37 UTC

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> On Feb 11, 2021, at 1:50 PM, Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net> wrote:
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> Good folks,
> 
> I'm looking for people's favorite RFCs with respect to readability and
> understand-ability.  

RFC793 remains a great model for how to spec a protocol - including defining the internal state machine AND the abstract API.

Especially because it predates the decision* that APIs weren’t part of protocols.

Joe

* regrettably and incorrectly.
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