Since when became XMPP "the internet standard for chat"? What about IRC[0]? :(

[0]: RFCs 1459, 2810 - 2813, 7194.

Come on, of course there will be some protocols that are more obscure than others, but the overall concept of RFCs is far from "forgotten".

Besides, a lot of these walled chat gardens roll their own XMPP/Jabber thingy behind the scenes.

Whatsapp, Zoom and Kik Messenger use XMPP under the hood.

Just because it's not well-known doesn't mean it's not widely used

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Yeah, as if reading and understanding RFCs was the pastime of the commoner in Ye Olde Dayse.

Or as if the vibe-coder of today would've totally™ definitely© be the type of person to peruse the RFCs.

It's like saying the the proof of, say, Seifert-van Kampen theorem is "forgotten" because nowadays, my friend, people ask ChatGPT to write out solutions to their math homework.

I don’t know what niche you inhabit, but anecdotally the overwhelming majority of engineers I know have consulted an RFC. RFCs are an active component in the Internet; you need to at least reference them (if not fully read them) to understand how various parts of the Internet interoperate.

(It seems extremely unlikely that the average non-junior engineer hasn’t opened up RFC 3339 or one of the HTTP caching RFCs, just for example.)

The fact that you are able to send this message over the internet is proof that a quite large population of people are still reading and still understand internet standards.

The people building the infrastructure powering the internet at cloudflare, major cloud providers, isps, etc are all regularly reading and referencing RFCs (from experience). People who aren't reading them now weren't reading them in the past either, we don't need some RFC moral panic.

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