[luckydude]

As someone who has lived through the times where the only real source of good information were the RFC's, this sucks.

Much respect to her and all of the people who worked together. I've often thought that the RFC process was one of the coolest things about our field. Other people think it is open source, I dunno. All those people coming together to work together to make stuff actually work, as in really work, not I wish it worked, but actually work. There were a lot of competing interests that people set aside to get stuff done.

[wpietri]

Truth. For me, coming across the RFCs was better than finding a treasure chest. So much knowledge. And better, so much wisdom about systems design.

[luckydude]

You might like Mike Padlipsky's Elements of Networking Style.

Out of print but so worth a read.