Some Must Read RFC - A List Of Technical Documentation Behind The Internet Technology
Some Must Read RFC If you are a software engineer or some IT related job, you must already know about the RFC or Request for comment. It is kind of a non formal standard for internet related things. The most popular I guess is HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol). The RFC for HTTP alone has been aged 26 years (1995), but it’s relatively new. The first Rfc is from 1969, was issued by Steve Crocker. The first RFC 1 defined the “IMP software” used in the communication between hosts on the ARPAnet, a predecessor of the internet. There’s so many RFCs, almost 10000 in number, so if you want to read some important or mostly known RFC, here’s my pick and list some of RFCs that are maybe the most well known. - RFC 2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) - RFC 3629 about UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 Who doesn’t know about UTF-8, yes probably nobody, everyone knows it. This RFC standardised how UTF-8 must be implemented. - RFC 2246 about Transfer Laye...