Protocol Design Debates
Discussions revolve around the merits, shortcomings, openness, and implementation challenges of communication protocols, often contrasting them with proprietary implementations and advocating for standardization like RFCs.
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e.g CPU p.s SPI MIL specification.txt STD UDP design.html OSI protocol protocols proprietary session smtp gemini encode specification implement types
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It's not even a niche instance, protocols solve their problem lol.
Hello! If only protocols weren't treated as cash cows
I wrote something about protocols https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609991
What's antiquated about the protocol?
A protocol is only as good as its available clients
"Protocol to protocol", I guess?
What are their protocol's shortcomings?
They work well for protocols too!
And the protocol can't be improved?
This article seems all about a particular implementation, not the protocol.