TITH — This Isn't That Hard

TITH is an unelected non-body of developers and sysops who document how a protocol should work before current practice gets a chance to become sacred. It promotes technical innovation by specifying one clear way to do a thing and then stopping.

Technical standards, standards proposals, and documents explaining why none of this needed seventeen mutually corrective memos have been archived and indexed.

Proposal submission

Write down exactly what the bytes mean.
Check that two implementers could independently agree.
Open a pull request.

No election, netmail, point address, or ceremonial modem handshake required.

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TITH Documents

Dialing index…

Negotiating a carrier-independent table format…

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Old Documents

There aren't any. Git remembers revisions so filenames don't have to.