Hi Miles,
I’m not aware of a lambda-the-ultimate kind of site, but the IETF has a number
of very good RFCs on protocol design.
RFC 1958 comes to mind as an early example, and I think RFC 8170 is the most
recent one (which also happens to be right on your subject). RFC 5218 is one
of my favorites. There are also more technical documents such as RFC 3819.
But it is true that much of what makes a good protocol design (or design
process) remains the tacit knowledge of the experienced designers that we have
collected here in the IETF, and that also remains one of the USPs of the IETF
that would be really hard to duplicate.
Grüße, Carsten
On Jun 22, 2017, at 14:44, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman(_at_)meetinghouse(_dot_)net> wrote:
Hi Folks,
This would seem to be the right place to ask.
There's a wonderful blog/wiki/community-of-interest (Drupal site, actually)
at lambda-the-ultimate.org that seems to have become a focal point for folks
involved in the theory & practice of programming language design (billed as
"The Programming Language Weblog").
I've been wondering if there's any kind of a similar site/community organized
around protocol design. Anybody know of one?
Context: I've been thinking about writing a book on the history of protocol
adoption - how & why some protocols have become ubiquitous - with a
particular focus on how & why new functionality keeps showing up as APIs,
SaaS, SOAs, and now micro-services. (Working title: Back to Walled Gardens).
There's lots of activity, email lists, etc. around API and micro-service
development, but I can't seem to find much on the theory & practice of
protocol development (is it that are spread around more focused on specific
problems, say in specific IETF working groups - to the detriment of a more
general community-of-interest?).
Thanks,
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra