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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by rkomorn on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:58PM (#45636326)
There's a strong inverse correlation in my career between how often a dev refers to RFCs by number alone and how much I ever want to interact (let alone work) with them again.

Doubly so for the "meta" RFCs (eg 1925).

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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by woodruffw on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:20PM (#45636545)
I understand that PKI engineers are not a very fun lot, but it seems unfair to blame them for having the various X.509 RFCs beaten into them :-)
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Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet by rkomorn on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:57AM (#45640721)
I think it's more a correlation than a causation, and I think it's the other way around.

It's not "I tend to not want to work with people who name-drop RFCs", it's "people I don't want to work with tend to name-drop RFCs".

And PKI engineers are cool (and a lot smarter than me).

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