Internet Standards Documents
Explore why Internet standards are essential for interoperability among hardware and software. Understand what RFCs are, who writes them, and how they define key protocols. This lesson helps you grasp the history and types of RFCs, enabling you to engage with Internet standardization processes.
Why Care About Internet Standards?
Standardization has allowed us to achieve interoperability. Different organizations and vendors can develop hardware and software to be connected to the Internet. Unless they agree on a protocol, their hardware and software wouldn’t be able to talk to each other. Standardization is all interested stakeholders sitting together, debating and agreeing on a protocol or design.
Also, it’s important to know what’s out there, who designed what and why. ...