@Andres4NY @KathyReid Michael Padlipsky's book "The elements of networking style", from his time co-designing the forerunner of the original Internet, the ARPANET, is very illuminating here. It's at the Internet Archive, and the clankers (GenAI, LLMs) haven't trained on it because of the protective LCP PDF DRM. https://archive.org/details/elementsofnetwor00padl