# RFCs: Blueprints of the Internet | Broadcast

<https://ackreq.github.io/posts/what-are-rfcs/>

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## What Jamie wrote

It has been a long-time since I've thought about RFCs but this article brought the memory back. [RFC](https://www.ietf.org/process/rfcs/), or request for comments", were documents shared online to help form consensus and input on how protocols should work. They are what the [Internet Engineering Taskforce](https://www.ietf.org/) create. [TCP](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc793.txt), [IP](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc791.txt), [UDP](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc768.txt), [SMTP](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc821.txt), [HTTP](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt), [DNS](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt) — these were all created via RFC. I linked every one of those examples to their actually RFC. I love that the pages are simple text files. Every email you have ever received, every web page you have ever visited, every interaction you have ever had on your phone with some service works only because these RFCs exist. 

I wish we still had this in our culture. Imagine if there was an active RFC process for Agents or MCP. I love that there is an [RFC 8700 - Fifty Years of RFCs](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8700) .

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- [WT331: Weekly Thing 331 / RFC, Security, Tokens](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/331/), Notable

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