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TCP/IP is so well defined because the engineers on these small teams are the ones publishing the standards. It isn't like they are simply reading a spec out of
by necheffa 3y ago
TCP/IP is so well defined because the engineers on these small teams are the ones publishing the standards. It isn't like they are simply reading a spec out of an existing document and coding up a conformant program.
- happyopossum 3y ago> standards. It isn't like they are simply reading a spec out of an existing document and coding up a conformant program. Err, yes - that’s what 98% of modern TCP/IP development work is. There aren’t frequent new RFCs for TCP - it is established, standardized, and stable.
- mmcallister 3y agoThe other 2% keeps engineers fairly busy, I imagine. Custom congestion control algorithms come to mind
- oblio 3y agoYeah, but even so, that pales in comparison to Joe Product Manager saying "the new French tax code dropped last Tuesday" or "our biggest competitors just signed an agreement that they will implemented a new standard they're proposing and we need to get onboard". Non-technical stuff is crazy complex compared to purely technical stuff, which tends to be a lot better defined.