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This strikes me as 100% backwards, isn't the entire point of the IETF RFC process to memorialize existing practice, not be a design studio for new protocols? Wa
by bcoates 12y ago
This strikes me as 100% backwards, isn't the entire point of the IETF RFC process to memorialize existing practice, not be a design studio for new protocols? Wasn't it followed here (RFC6520 existing to document the OpenSSL implementation of heartbeat)?
If the IETF is the only thing standing between us and any jackass introducing vulnerabilities into everyone's network stack we're in bigger trouble than I thought.
- ahomescu1 12y agoRFC stands for "Request For Comments", which I always thought meant new stuff up for peer review. Wikipedia also describes them as: An RFC is authored by engineers and computer scientists in the form of a memorandum describing methods, behaviours, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems. It is submitted either for peer review or simply to convey new concepts, information, or (occasionally) engineering humour. The IETF adopts some of the proposals published as RFCs as Internet standards.