Re: Fwd: Indianz.com NEWS BRIEFS: APRIL 1, 2001

["Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" <rms46 at VLSM.ORG>]

> Not having seen an RFC come over the transom yesterday or today, 
> here is an alternative.
> http://216.218.205.86/april1.asp

Are you sure?

1 April Special
* RFC 3091 on Pi Digit Generation Protocol
* RFC 3092 on Etymology of "Foo"
* RFC 3093 on Firewall Enhancement Protocol

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* RFC 3091 on Pi Digit Generation Protocol
  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3091.html

  This protocol is intended to provide the Pi digit generation service
  (PIgen), and be used between clients and servers on host computers.
  Typically the clients are on workstation hosts lacking local Pi
  support, and the servers are more capable machines with greater Pi
  calculation capabilities.  The essential tradeoff is the use of
  network resources and time instead of local computational cycles.


* RFC 3092 on Etymology of "Foo"
  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html

  Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the
  terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without
  any proper explanation or definition.  This document rectifies that
  deficiency.


* RFC 3093 on Firewall Enhancement Protocol
  http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3093.html

  Internet Transparency via the end-to-end architecture of the Internet
  has allowed vast innovation of new technologies and services [1].
  However, recent developments in Firewall technology have altered this 
  model and have been shown to inhibit innovation.  We propose the
  Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) to allow innovation, without
  violating the security model of a Firewall.  With no cooperation from
  a firewall operator, the FEP allows ANY application to traverse a
  Firewall.  Our methodology is to layer any application layer
  Transmission Control Protocol/User Datagram Protocol (TCP/UDP) packets
  over the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol, since HTTP
  packets are typically able to transit Firewalls.  This scheme does not 
  violate the actual security usefulness of a Firewall, since Firewalls
  are designed to thwart attacks from the outside and to ignore threats
  from within.  The use of FEP is compatible with the current Firewall
  security model because it requires cooperation from a host inside the
  Firewall.  FEP allows the best of both worlds: the security of a
  firewall, and transparent tunneling thought the firewall.


regards,

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