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A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society, the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet.

A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society, the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet.

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Which RFCs should be cited as internet standards?

It's extremely common for RFCs to be cited in support of opinions (including Serverfault Q&A's), but the average IT employee has a very poor understanding in regards to which RFCs define standards and which ones are purely informative. This should…
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Is there a set of RFC's that every admin should know about?

Reading through the RFC's can result in finding very interesing and important topics that any sysadmin would deem useful. I also sometimes find it to be a good cure for insomnia reading through it, and some RFC's are just down right bogus (RFC…
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Where to find symbol definitions for RFC protocol flow diagram?

I am reading RFC5077, and bumped into following diagram: ClientHello (empty SessionTicket extension)--------> ServerHello (empty…
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Is RFC1035s definition of a wrong?

[RFC1035] defines as is a domain name represented as a series of labels, and terminated by a label with zero length. This means a must be a FQDN of the form an.example. with a terminating '.'. Also,…
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