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Why some standards are called Request For Comments?
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Mar 15, 2026939 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Is it just historic name or it has some real ground? Should I use the term "request for comments, RFC" when putting some document just to receive comments, not to establish a standard?
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It is historic. Those documents used to be just recommendations between peers. Someone would have one problem and he would write RFC to find out whether his solution was ok. At some stage those documents just got to be official reference for quite f…
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