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I dont read rfcs often, but when I do I'm always impressed by the quality and precision of the writing. Maybe it comes with experience or maybe my education jus

• tmccrary55 5y ago
  It's the font they use.
• znpy 5y ago
  They're supposed to be authoritative and unambiguous, hence the precision. The problem they aim to solve is to be used as reference for various protocols implementation, with the idea that as long as nobody deviates from what the RFC says, all implementations will be interoperable.
• riffic 5y ago
  It just occurred to me that RFC 8890 was written by Mark Nottingham. When you've written nearly thirty published RFCs, you get pretty good at it I suppose: https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Mark%20Nottingham https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/Mark%20Nottingham I also appreciate this draft concerning decentralization: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-avoiding-internet-centralization/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-avoiding-i...
• rhizome 5y ago
  Ah yes, you're looking for RFC7322: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7322 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7322