RFC

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Why Care About Internet Standards?

Standardization has allowed us to achieve interoperability. Different organizations and vendors can develop hardware and software to be connected to the Internet. Unless they agree on a protocol, their hardware and software would not be able to talk to each other. Standardization is all interested stakeholders sitting together, debating, and agreeing on a protocol or design.

Also, it’s important to know what’s out there, who designed what, and why.

Also, you’d know where to submit your ideas in case you come up with a better design for any of the protocols we’re going to study.

What Is an RFC?

• An RFC or Request For Comments is a document that contains proposals for new protocols or systems.
• Today, RFCs are submitted to and handled by the Internet Society, which has a sub-body called the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This sub-body works on the standardization of Internet protocols and systems.
• An RFC is then deliberated on by experts, revised, and then hopefully, eventually adopted as a standard.

Who Writes RFCs?

• RFCs are generally written by those who work at IETF, Internet researchers, and specialists. An RFC can be written and submitted to the…