I think it's more a correlation than a causation, and I think it's the other way around. It's not "I tend to not want to work with people who name-drop RFCs",

I think it's more a correlation than a causation, and I think it's the other way around. It's not "I tend to not want to work with people who name-drop RFCs", it's "people I don't want to work with tend to name-drop RFCs". And PKI engineers are cool (and a lot smarter than me).