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Book revival spotlights origins of the internet's RFC 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

A reader of 'Where Wizards Stay Up Late' shared a detail about how the Request for Comment documents, the technical memos that shaped the internet's early standards, got their name. Steve Crocker, who wrote the first RFC in 1969, deliberately used the humble 'request for comment' label to avoid sounding too declarative and to invite open discussion among researchers building ARPANET. The anecdote is prompting people to share their own histories with RFCs and the informal culture behind early internet engineering.

Why now: The book detail offers a fresh origin story for a document format many people use without knowing its history.

Steve CrockerRequest for CommentsWhere Wizards Stay Up LateARPANET

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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 · 12

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