Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) received a boost last week, with the UK Government posting a Government Action Plan on Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use. Quoting from the forward:
“Open Source has been one of the most significant cultural developments in IT and beyond over the last two decades: it has shown that individuals, working [...]

If you get deep-and-dirty with the technicalities of IP networking, the chances are that you have come across RFCs (short for “requests for comments”). These are the standards documents of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). However, not all RFCs are actually standards. The IETF has done much to try and demystify their standards process [...]