What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet

Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by dcminter on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:17PM (#45635354)

Not forgotten, but this article did not mention my favourite and the most moving RFC: 2468

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2468

There's quiet genius in that choice of number by the way. 2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate?

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by ackreq on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:44PM (#45635629)

Wow, never heard of this one before. Thanks for sharing!

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by dcminter on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:10PM (#45635848)

It's a treasure. I feel for those expressing their loss - and at the same time am slightly in awe that IANA used to be "just some guy" - this plus the April Fool tradition gives the RFC series a very approachable human feeling.

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by jibal on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:54PM (#45636871)

I knew and worked with both Vint and Jon at UCLA ... reading that (again) brings tears to my eyes.

P.S. Another RFC memorializing Jon: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2441

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by jibal on Sunday October 19, 2025 @03:16PM (#45637034)

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by hinkley on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:28PM (#45636020)

Vint is now 82 and I wonder when we’ll have a black bar for him.

The most recent picture of him on the Wikipedia article was at 74 and he still looked fairly spry.

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