[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.
       | 
       | The most infamous example of underspecification being, of course,
       | JSON.
        
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