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What is a small(ish) RFC to implement for learning purposes?


I recently setup my own CalDAV and CardDAV server (using Radicale https://radicale.org/3.0.html), and I wondered how I can send and receive objects from this server (implementation). This journey let me read the CardDAV RFC (https://tools.ietf.org/rfcmarkup?doc=6352).

Now I want to practice implementing RFCs, since I hav e never done that before. It looks like the CardDAV one is quite big (?) for the first try.

So I wondered: Do you recommend or know a RFC which is easy/small to implement so I can get my feet wet?

  👤 notadev Accepted Answer ✓
It’s about 65 pages so not really small, but the RFC for IRC client protocol looks like a relatively easy thing to implement since it’s mostly sending/receiving ASCII and taking action based on the message received. https://www.irchelp.org/protocol/rfc/rfc2812.txt