Re:Comcast is injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript into web pages
by ajross on Sunday December 10, 2017 @05:31PM
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IETF RFCs are not "standards" in the sense that you are thinking. The RFC process is deliberately designed to be open to submission from anyone, and there is no particular vetting or consensus forming that happens.
When used by practicing engineers as a low-overhead way to document interoperability requirements for working software, it's been fantastically successful. But it also lends itself to this kind of pseudo-fraud "standardization" by less ethical players.
Bottom line: an "RFC" means nothing per se. What matters is whether the community wants to support it. So RFC7540 is an important standard everyone agrees to support. RFC6108 is garbage.
When used by practicing engineers as a low-overhead way to document interoperability requirements for working software, it's been fantastically successful. But it also lends itself to this kind of pseudo-fraud "standardization" by less ethical players.
Bottom line: an "RFC" means nothing per se. What matters is whether the community wants to support it. So RFC7540 is an important standard everyone agrees to support. RFC6108 is garbage.