What is the name of the law, according to which the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles in roughly two years? This is not a scientific law, but more of an empirical relationship, comparable somewhat with an experience curve effect. The law is named after a founder of NM Electronics, which later became Intel Corporation.

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Answer to yesterday's question: Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Its standards are published as numbered documents called RFCs (Requests for Comments), the first of which appeared in 1969, predating much of the internet and IETF itself.

The IETF runs on a famous principle articulated by David Clark in 1992: 'We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code'. In practice this means a standard is adopted after broad agreement and someone's working implementation.