Standards are rules and customs that the software industry considers to be important and are codified in some way, either as a formal specification like an ISO standard or a language specification or as a more informal document like rules for behavior at a workplace.
Questions tagged [standards]
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How and where do I publish my open standard?
I have been writing an open standard for a protocol I am developing. As far as writing concerns I have it under control. But the main question is where can I publish such document. I have been searching on the internet and didn't find such site…
Mitja Felicijan
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What does it mean to "define a profile" in the context of an Internet RFC?
I've seen the phrase defines a profile of XYZ on a couple of IETF RFCs. For example, RFC 3339 reads:
This section discusses desirable qualities of date and time formats
and defines a profile of ISO 8601 for use in Internet protocols.
What…
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How do you deal with external sources that do not conform to service standards and protocols?
I'm working on a product that requires a large amount of interactions with different external data providers. These data providers uses a number of standards (primarily xml-based) which are all governed and agreed upon. Some of these standards…
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How to comment the file system?
When certain parts of code are unusual or unclear, common practice is to leave a comment explaining why it is so. However, sometimes a filesystem may have unusual configuration, such as a directory with 0477 privileges. Is there any convention for…
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Universal Standards for Data Interchange - Do they exist and do you follow them?
Mostly fact and maybe a little bit of opinion:
One of my pet peeves in programming is data interchange. I work exclusively with small business software (as opposed to working with corporate ERP systems) and I see that many small businesses store…
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RFC5322 (Internet message format) ABNF rule error?
I was recently studying Internet Message Format originally RFC2822 and RFC5322. I was looking at definition of folding whitespace.
Each header field is logically a single line of characters comprising
the field name, the colon, and the field body.…
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