There should be a service that sells cliff notes for standards. They read the standard and write a new one that states what we need to know to write a program using the standard in much fewer lines. I'd pay for such a service.
> An interesting idea, especially if you could tell it what to cull as > absolutely uninteresting, e.g., no OSI, no ATM, no SONET, no MPLS, no > SNMP, no RSVP, no OSPF, no XML, no UTF-7. You'd need to have some way > to evaluate questions like `is the anal-retention and micromanagement > in SMTP (821/2821) irrelevant and thus removable?'. I suppose any > algorithm that could cope with the Book of Armaments should be good > enough.
