On 2/11/21 1:51 PM, Wes Hardaker wrote:
Good folks,
I'm looking for people's favorite RFCs with respect to readability and
understand-ability. Do you have ones that have always impressed you as
your favorites as how RFCs should be written to make their protocol/etc
easily understood? If so, send a note my way (ideally using this
subject line). I don't necessarily think you need to do a reply-all.
[And yes, I recognize that this is a subjective ask, and everyone will
have a different opinion as to "what is readable" and "what is
understandable". That's ok -- I'm asking for opinions and not facts].
Even though it's a bit self-serving, I think DKIM (rfc 4871) was pretty
clear as it managed to get dozens of interoperable implementations. The
ability to get interoperability without back knowledge or trawling the
working group mailing list is a good sign that they are well written.
Back in the day, IP and TCP RFC's were very easy to understand.
Mike
