..it Sure Would Be Nice if some of the people who have been
exposed to things like this sat down and wrote a few
Informational RFCs *documenting* some of this folklore. One of
the most infuriating things about implementing some of the
Internet protocols is running across these bits of important
information that aren't written down *anywhere*, apparently on
the assumption that anyone who needs to know them already does.
Well, the "Host Requirments" RFCs documented some of it, and tried to
legislate the rest of it out of existancs. Unfortunately, that doesn't
seem to have worked.
BillW