• Mountaineer@aussie.zone
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      7 months ago

      Can’t tell if you’re joking, but a Request For Comments is effectively a proposal for how a process should be performed.
      Some of them are eventually ratified as internet standards by the IETF.
      Plenty of them remain useful as defacto standards even without formal acknowledgement.

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        7 months ago

        Thanks! Genuinely had no idea. Thought it was being described as a really fuckin’ cheap DHCP server.