I mean, all the Internet RFCs. Obviously I haven't read every request for commentary about everything.
So after college, when I worked for a while doing networking, I prepared a brief but entertaining monologue with which I could fob off curious clients until I finished working, and simultaneously demonstrate to them, by way of didactic recitation of numbers and acronyms, that I really did know what I was doing.
The knowledge in the RFCs is valuable as purposed, too, of course. I think I have cause for pride in my exploits "back in the day," when networking was a brave new world, and network security a mostly unstandardized practice. The RFCs were a long read, but worth it. |
