[HN Gopher] How to read an RFC (2018)
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How to read an RFC (2018)
Author : mattrighetti
Score : 19 points
Date : 2022-04-23 10:21 UTC (12 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.ietf.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.ietf.org)
| pwdisswordfish9 wrote:
| > These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by
| developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as
| irrelevant because they can't be understood.
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| My biggest problem with reading RFCs is not because they are hard
| to understand, it's because they are vague, underspecified or
| don't accurately describe reality.
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| The most infamous example of underspecification being, of course,
| JSON.
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