Re: Humour RFCs

[Markus Peuhkuri <puhuri at iki.fi>]

Theodore Tso <tytso at mit.edu> writes:
> you.  Assuming that all RFC's are Serious Network Reference is a
> really, really, really, really bad idea.  And if April Fool's RFC's

As I lecture (Intenet) standardisation on some course, I always take
these April-1 RFCs as example in emphasing that "Not all RFCs are
standards".  And 1149 is an example of "no idea is too stupid for
someone to implement"-principle.  My colleague -- soon to be Ph.D --
used some time figure out 1926.

BTW: not all Apr-01 RFCs are not jokes, I seems that only few April
     1st RFCs are jokes before 1992

0777 Internet Control Message Protocol. J. Postel. Apr-01-1981.
     (Format: TXT=19407 bytes) (Obsoleted by RFC0792) (Updates RFC0760)
     (Status: UNKNOWN)

0894 Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams over Ethernet
     networks. C. Hornig. Apr-01-1984. (Format: TXT=5697 bytes) (Also
     STD0041) (Status: STANDARD)

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