I don’t disagree, and I think that’s why we need to make it clear that there’s a difference between implementation and standard.
My education is a mix of formal and autodidactic. One of the best things I got from formal education is the structured introduction to fundamentals like the OSI model.
If you don’t have that kind of foundation, it can be much, much harder to understand the “why” of the endless differences between documented standards and in-the-wild implementations. It’s good to know where you are in the stack to help inform what you’re seeing.
My education is a mix of formal and autodidactic. One of the best things I got from formal education is the structured introduction to fundamentals like the OSI model.
If you don’t have that kind of foundation, it can be much, much harder to understand the “why” of the endless differences between documented standards and in-the-wild implementations. It’s good to know where you are in the stack to help inform what you’re seeing.