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Clarify what the RFC do: they aren't implementating anything of the OSI ...
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Before any discussion of networking, however, it's important to have a
working knowledge of the numbered Request for Comments (:term:`RFC`) documents
and how they apply to computer networking. These documents describe the
mechanisms for the OSI layer implementations (e.g. TCP, IP, HTTP, SMTP)
and as such are the authoritative source for how computers communicate
and how they apply to computer networking. These documents describe the technical
specifics for every protocol you will run into (eg, TCP, IP, HTTP, SMTP), and
as such are the authoritative source for how computers communicate
with one another.

The RFC Documents
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