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TCP/IP Over HTTP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the Amazon-has-already-patented-it dept.

Nick Towers sends news of a nifty new RFC that has just come out - RFC 3093, the Firewall Enhancement Protocol, promises to reduce the hassle of setting up a firewall by tunneling any TCP/IP application over HTTP.

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  1. SOAP parody by "Zow" · · Score: 4

    I think this RFC is actually a parody of SOAP, as chronicaled in Bruce Schneier's June 2000 Crypto-Gram.

    -"Zow"

  2. A lot more, actually :) by demo · · Score: 5
    Just to sum up most of the April Fools RFCs over the years...
    • RFC3093 - Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP).
    • RFC3092 - Etymology of "Foo".
    • RFC3091 - Pi Digit Generation Protocol.
    • RFC2795 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS).
    • RFC2551 - The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III.
    • RFC2550 - Y10K and Beyond.
    • RFC2549 - IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service.
    • RFC2325 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2
    • RFC2324 - Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0).
    • RFC2323 - IETF Identification and Security Guidelines.
    • RFC2322 - Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp.
    • RFC2321 - RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent.
    • RFC2100 - The Naming of Hosts.
    • RFC1927 - Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents.
    • RFC1926 - An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM.
    • RFC1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths.
    • RFC1924 - A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses.
    • RFC1776 - The Address is the Message. S. Crocker.
    • RFC1607 - A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY. V. Cerf.
    • RFC1606 - A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9.
    • RFC1605 - SONET to Sonnet Translation.
    • RFC1438 - Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs).
    • RFC1437 - The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium.
    • RFC1313 - Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio.
    • RFC1217 - Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR).
    • RFC1216 - Gigabit network economics and paradigm shifts.
    • RFC1149 - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers.
    • RFC1097 - Telnet subliminal-message option.
    Did I miss any?
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  3. Don't forget last year's classic... by GuavaBerry · · Score: 4

    RFC 2795 (Infinite Monkey Control Protocol) is by far the best RFC I've ever read.