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If you would advise people to start reading RFC's, which would you recommend people start with?

It should be something more complex than RFC 863 (Discard Protocol), but something simpler than rocket science :)

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How about the RFC about Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. It concerns everyone of us and is not that hard to read/understand.

And for fun, there is always IP Over Avian Carriers ;)

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    RFC 821: It has state diagrams, formal definition of protocol grammer, glossary, references and does not draw material from too many RFC's. Also most people being familiar with SMTP terminology helps. Thanks. – qwrty Aug 19 '11 at 06:23
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    Don't forget RFC 1178 - Choosing a name for your computer! – caconym Dec 11 '15 at 01:32