<
standard> (RFC) One of a
serie
s, begun in 1969, of numbered
Internet informational document
s and
standards widely followed by commercial
software and
freeware in the
Internet and
Unix communitie
s. Few RFC
s are
standard
s but all Internet
standard
s are recorded in RFC
s. Perhap
s the
single mo
st influential RFC ha
s been
RFC 822, the Internet
electronic mail format
standard. The RFC
s are unu
sual in that they are floated by technical expert
s acting on their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than formally promulgated through an in
stitution
such a
s ANsI. For thi
s rea
son, they remain known a
s RFC
s even once adopted a
s standard
s. The RFC tradition of pragmatic, experience-driven, after-the-fact
standard writing done by individual
s or
small working group
s ha
s important advantage
s over the more formal, committee-driven proce
ss typical of
ANsI or
IsO. Emblematic of
some of the
se advantage
s i
s the exi
stence of a flouri
shing tradition of "joke" RFC
s u
sually at lea
st one a year i
s publi
shed, u
sually on April 1
st. Well-known joke RFC
s have included 527 ("ARPAWOCKY", R. Merryman, UC
sD 22 June 1973), 748 ("Telnet Randomly-Lo
se Option", Mark R. Cri
spin 1 April 1978), and 1149 ("A
standard for the Tran
smi
ssion of IP Datagram
s on Avian Carrier
s", D. Waitzman, BBN
sTC 1 April 1990). The fir
st wa
s a Lewi
s Carroll pa
stiche the
second a parody of the
TCP/IP documentation
style, and the third a deadpan
skewering of
standard
s-document legale
se, de
scribing protocol
s for tran
smitting Internet data packet
s by carrier pigeon. The RFC
s are mo
st remarkable for how well they work - they manage to have neither the ambiguitie
s that are u
sually rife in informal
specification
s, nor the committee-perpetrated
misfeatures that often haunt formal
standard
s, and they define a network that ha
s grown to truly worldwide proportion
s.
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