Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by Something1234 » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by Something1234 » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 6:06 PM UTC

I'm working on writing a paper for a class on the DNS system. I really like rfc1035 [1]. It describes the goals, and terms involved. Also it goes into details on their design tradeoffs, and how they made it distributed.

[1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 6:17 PM UTC

RFC1178. I take my PC naming seriously.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by jamieweb » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 6:23 PM UTC

RFC2142 - I like it when organisations use standardised email addresses such as support@ and security@ for different business units.

Unfortunately many orgs either don't have these mailboxes set up, or they aren't actively monitored.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by mpweiher » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 6:24 PM UTC

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

"There is persistent delivery retry, until the carrier drops."

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by DanBC » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 6:25 PM UTC

RFC 2468.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by LinuxBender » Fri, Jan 04, 2019, 7:45 PM UTC

RFC-6919 [1] The key words "MUST (BUT WE KNOW YOU WON'T)", "SHOULD CONSIDER", "REALLY SHOULD NOT", "OUGHT TO", "WOULD PROBABLY", "MAY WISH TO", "COULD", "POSSIBLE", and "MIGHT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 6919.

[1] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by wglb » Sat, Jan 05, 2019, 4:37 AM UTC

RFC 4042 which details UTF 9 in good detail.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite RFC?

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Post by avianauthor » Sun, Jan 06, 2019, 2:44 PM UTC

To LinuxBender: RFC2549 also clarified the key words: MUST Usually. MUST NOT Usually not. SHOULD Only when Marketing insists. MAY Only if it doesn't cost extra.