[Eug-lug] RFC 5218 -- What Makes for a Successful Protocol?

[marbux]

New IETF RFC:

"The Internet community has specified a large number of protocols to
date, and these protocols have achieved varying degrees of success.
Based on case studies, this document attempts to ascertain factors
that contribute to or hinder a protocol's success.  It is hoped that
these observations can serve as guidance for future protocol work."

<http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5218.txt>.

It's an interesting read. Successful protocols evaluated include:

      Inter-domain: IPv4 [RFC0791], TCP [RFC0793], HTTP [RFC2616], DNS
      [RFC1035], BGP [RFC4271], UDP [RFC0768], SMTP [RFC2821], SIP
      [RFC3261].

      Intra-domain: ARP [RFC0826], PPP [RFC1661], DHCP [RFC2131], RIP
      [RFC1058], OSPF [RFC2328], Kerberos [RFC4120], NAT [RFC3022].

But it's the factors identified that makes this an interesting
informational RFC.

Best read with a monospace font because of ASCII illustrations.

Best regards,

Paul

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