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Origins of the RFC, the internet's founding documents

Original: today's TIL from Where Wizards Stay Up Late was about the origins of the RFC or "Request for Comment". i've seen these k

Readers are revisiting the history of the RFC, or Request for Comments, the technical documents that shaped internet standards. Drawing on the book Where Wizards Stay Up Late, one account highlights Steve Crocker's deliberately modest wording when he labeled early documents 'requests for comments' to avoid sounding declarative, explaining their famously collaborative format.

Why now: A popular internet history book is prompting renewed appreciation for how the RFC tradition began.

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• today's TIL from Where Wizards Stay Up Late was about the origins of the RFC or "Request for Comment". i've seen these kinds of documents dozens of times over the years, but never quite understood their format. ----- To avoid sounding too declarative, he [Steve Crocker] labeled… · vga256@tomodori.net · 11

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