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RFC On New Internet Routing Protocol
PoesRaven writes "An A. Farrel has put out a Request For Comments paper on a new routing protocol with profound implications for the internet, the usability of the TCP/IP protocol, and the security of the net's youngest users. From the RFC: "It has often been the case that morality has not been given proper consideration in the design and specification of protocols produced within the Routing Area. This has led to a decline in the moral values within the Internet and attempts to retrofit a suitable moral code to implemented and deployed protocols has been shown to be sub-optimal." Interesting, but seems to raise some serious privacy questions.
Just kidding. April Fool's!
The april fools stories are just getting worse and worse.
There should be a moderation category "Dumbest Comment EVER"
In three words:
Tools, not policy.
Horse S**t! Isn't the lack of morality what makes the internet so nice?
There will be no use for this once the evil bit is implemented.
this is a fool too far, nothing to see here - come back tomorrow when you can actually trust the `news`
A. Farrel has put out a Request For Comments paper I still think he'll regret leaving Wigan Warriors to try his hand at Rugby Union with Saracens...
Oh, hell, no-one's going to get this joke.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Perhaps I should send Adrian an e-mail congratulating him for fooling me for at least 5 minutes!
I'm being careful with anything I read today. I don't know whether to believe it or not. I haven't read the white paper yet. Maybe that would shed some light ;-).
My lame blog.
ok this one looked resonible till i got to this part
"It is well accepted by popular opinion and other reliable metrics
that moral values are declining and that degeneracy is increasing.
Young people are particularly at risk from the rising depravity in
society and much of the blame can be squarely placed at the door of
the Internet. If you do not feel safe on the streets at night, what
do you think it is like on the Information Superhighway?"
Then it all came apart , This is a better april fools though
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
You should read more carefully. The RFC does not specify a new protocol, it specifies a new section in RFC documentation, much like the "security implication" sections that started appearing a few years back.
If you're going to try and be funny - at least be correct. That said, your rush to condemn it certainly puts your moral standing in question - eh?
So at first I'm getting all pissed off, then I realized the date. Damn hippies. :)
If it wasn't so likely to be something the Republican party would like to implement. The conservative movement in the country would like nothing more than a nice, moral, information controlled internet.
StupidChildren...the reason jesus is crying
No really. All 12 times that story was posted.
Oh well.
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Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
I hada great idea for TCP/IP over chocolate - inspired by pidgeon transmission.
Every time I sit down to write it up I get so full of laughter it's never completed. Shame.
Some choice bits include:
Maybe next year ..
They only just made it, it's 23:43 here :D
Just means that april 2 has most of the april fools jokes for me
Samuel
First G. W. Bush is legislating morality from his bully pulpit in the White House, and now some creep wants to implement morality into our very IP stack? When I want to download images from alt.sex.bugger.with.sailors, I don't want my packets dropping due to someone else's "morality" being implemented on my ISP's router.
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April Fool..
Then I thought..
"Don't give 'em ideas!"
As april fools rfc jokes go this is toward the bottom of the heap. Further it is no where close to Parrot which went from joke scary truth (shudder).
Hey! you people!!
This was a nice candidate for an april fools joke.
The fuun of it is not in calling it when you see it. It's just the other way around, waiting or even baiting for those who fall for the joke, so you can get a good laugh.
Getting a first post that says "April Fools, hehehehe" takes away most of the fun. After that, you know you will be seeing very few poor guys who fell for the joke.
the New Internet Protocol Roots the RFC...
Shit,... no,... that wasn't meant to happen...
April Fool
That really was worse than the joke I wanted to make about the Pope going Terri on us.
And yet ignored my Standard for the Transmission of Coherent Logical Unitary Elements.
For a full list of sites that pulled April Fools Day Pranks this year check out this list here Here is a sampling: dotget.net - Microsoft to put P2P software .GET into next version of Windows
kylewenda.com - the government records your phone calls... scary
rfc-editor.org - RFC for "Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts"
waferbaby.com - amusing php error
planet.gentoo.org - Various things, CFLAGS, etc
fark.com - Many Jokes (keep reloading): BOOBIES!, Logged in as admin, North-Central Kentucky Bunghole-Discharge, page from 1999, BEER
2600.com - Formal Attire required for 2600 meetings today
forumsector.com - Changed the name to Nascar Sector
wikipedia.org - Britannica taking over Wikimedia
google.com - Google releases Google Gulp
kellyosbourne.org - Sanctuary records group shut us down
nukefreezone.net - Making fun of atrios.blogspot.com
weebl.jolt.co.uk - Replaced with Cats-By-Mail
telecom.co.nz - Click 2 Brick
ytmnd.com - (NSFW) hacked by teens for christ
wingus.ampedhost.com - Site converted into Mingus' Gently-Used Furniture store. Oh dear. Why won't he be kind?
homestarrunner.com - Now a pay service.
whirlpool.net.au - Australia's biggest Luddite to head Australia's largest telco
thinkgeek.com - Fake product listings.
theregister.co.uk - Bush twins to join Air Force tech unit in Iraq
creativebits.org - Site purchased by Microsoft
ocremix.org - Now partnered with EA (or something like that). Called EA ReMix.
spacedaily.com - Bush Cancels Space Shuttle Program
planet.gnome.org - Switched sites with planet.kde.org
planet.kde.org - Switched sites with planet.gnome.org
ietf.org - RFC: Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
beejaysworld.de - Gentoo dropping livecds for x86
nature.com - Apollo bacteria spur lunar erosion
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - Water On Mars
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Can't they just reuse the Evil Bit that never came to be after being announced almost exactly a year to the day?
For anyone doubting whether this is a joke or not, you only have to read as far as "The key words "SHALT", "SHALT NOT", "SMITE", and "PILLAR OF SALT" in this document are to be interpreted as expected.".
This is definitely after noon though - bad luck to the submitter...
One good turn - gets all the covers.
Then you got to the bit that says
"...Promiscuous modes of operation are an abomination, exceeded only by
multicast..."
and thought maybe there was some truth in it?
"Those who cast the votes decide nothing; those who count the votes decide everything." (attrib. Joseph Stalin)
Its exactly 2 years since that rfc for setting an evil bit in packets appeared, but nothing happened since then ?
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3514.html
Steve Jobs joins Ikea!s _joins_ikea/
s _volunteer/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/01/steve_job
And Bush's twins join the Air Force!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/01/bush_twin
Pretty bad April fools jokes this year, but still nice to see them (:
Never touch an Irish man's Guinness!@#
;) i didnt actualy read it properly , i just skimmed over hee as i had a fairly large idea it was an april fools already from the summary .. how i passed a gem like that is beyond me though lol
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
That's two in a row. At least the first one was somewhat funny....
that this is April Fool's Day, not Stupid Joke Day. So please don't submit an article unless it is a really well-thought-out and clever hoax. Thanks.
and I guess april fools, not must RTFA in case it is something!
The problem is, I think everything is april fools! damn!
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As for blockin pr0n, who cares. It would really be useful if this could block spam!
Still, problem is, who gets to sit and determine what is immoral and what isn't? And for that matter, whose morals are we talking about here, is it the FCC, the WWE, the people behind goatse, the Republican Right, or maybe some Islamic Council for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice? And who will pay them? Again, remember the system's ability to block any obstacles including taxation; the ARPAnet people back in the day thought in terms of nuclear bombs not nuclear family value enforcements...
Then again, considering the date of issue of this RFC, it is all in the +1 Funny realm anyway, which as we know, is karma neutral.
I rest my case.
SIGBUS @ NO-07.308
The key words "SHALT", "SHALT NOT", "SMITE", and "PILLAR OF SALT" in this document are to be interpreted as expected.
;-)
Now prowl the comments for people saying 'why didn't they just use xyz protocol?' without realising
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Those who think this is a real story.
Those who realize it's an April fool's joke without having to be told.
Those who think that was binary.
Question everything
Likelihood of misuse by large, multi-national corporations. Such a thought is, of course, unthinkable.
Availability of oversight facilities. There are those who would corrupt our morals motivated as they are by a hatred of the freedom of Internet access with which we are graced. We place a significant burden of responsibility on those who guard our community from these evil-doers and it is only fitting that we give them as much support as is possible. Therefore, all encryption and obfuscation techniques MUST be excluded - individuals who have nothing to hide need to fear the oversight of those whose morals are beyond doubt.
Care and concern for avian carriers. A duck may be somebody's mother.
The real joke is ofcourse that I actually RTFA
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Might as well forget about visiting/posting or reading slashdot. It's April 1st. :/
:)
Oh.. wait... I should follow my own advice.
GJC
Gregory Casamento
## Chief Maintainer for GNUstep
This does read like something the US congress would be interested in doing.
Have I finally lost touch with the computing industry or is this just not funny?
Even though this kind of joke has been done to death, I had hoped for a smile to at least cross my lips.
Man, the April Fools posts are so obvious this year.
I just can't wait to see M$ implement it in Longhorn... ;-)
Tha-tha-tha-tha-that's all folks!
it is the GWB bit and it is already set.
His reaction
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
RFC 1149 was unexpected, well thought out and original. These attributes are key elements in a good joke. RFC 1149 was damn funny.
All these others that have followed, including todays jewel, are cheap knockoff copies. They aren't original. They aren't unexpected. It could even be argued that they aren't well thought out. In other words they just are not funny.
Even if the first couple of knockoffs were funny, like any joke that is told too much, the become not funny over time. These are beyond not funny. RFC 1149 is still funny but all of these subsequent attempts are just lame. People should really know when to stop flogging a dead horse.
Can we NOT have a repeat of last year, where you couldn't find any serious articles on 1 Apr? Sure, some of the fake news is funny, and maybe one or two are actually clever, but most of them (especially last year, ARGGHHH) are awful, stupid, and uncreative. Let's put the really good joke stories up and intermix them with some real stories!
As an aside, I hope I don't get put on a "You have been temporarily forbidden from posting" holiday for speaking out against the editors (do any of you guys know the editors actually do this now?) but I think it had to be said.
how many of the conservative right would like to see a serious version of this made both the de facto standard and the written law in the US?
We may be laughing at this one right up until a serious version of it hits Congress.
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This guy seems to be karmawhoring by pasting this post on every single (lame) April's Fool post today...
The revolution will not be televised.
Can you believe the slashdot overloards rejected this as a story! http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lohsen-i p-burrito-00.txt
By Norwegians, no less.
This is obviously a joke because TCP/IP is a ROUTED protocol, not a ROUTING protocol. Now if they said "BGP 5 new ROUTING protocol" I may have fell for it.
TCP and IP are separate protocols.
Furthermore "TCP/IP protocol" is "Transmission control protocol over internet protocol protocol"
Could you BE any more redundant?
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I think Al Gore invented morality too.
Personally, I much preferred the more technical ones like:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1097.html
Hehe, you really read that? I saw the date at the top of the white paper and knew what it was.
My lame blog.
We must allow for other moral frameworks and fully respect other people's right to subscribe to other belief systems. Such people are, however, wrong and doomed to spend eternity in a dark corner with only dial-up access.
Now did big dubya write this himself?
Yeah , the funny thing is ive been waiting for slashdot to post a real artical then wait for us to all start saying "Aprils fool" then them going "hahahaha aprils fool indeed , this is a real story"
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
"3.2.2. Jumbo Packets
It is no longer appropriate to refer to "jumbo packets". Please use the term "capacitorially challenged".
Also known as "Fat Bastard" packets.
Ok, first of all morals are defined by the culture and people of a specific time and place and not by governments, corporations, or Internet protocols in a free and civilized world. Morals are dictated by fascist governments bent on subjugating a people to a common idealistic goal for their own self-glorification and rule of a real or pseudo aristocracy.
Second, any and all attempts to impose ideological (i.e., moral) boundaries on technological innovations or implementations should be vehemently opposed by any sane, educated, rational individual.
Is it just me or is our world becoming more and more Orwellian by the day?
To the author: don't quit your day job for a glamorous career in comedy just yet.
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This is the same April fool's crap Slashdot posts every year. Maybe not the same protocol, but there's always a new RFC for some protocol on April 1st. Boredom.
Is this new morality routing framework require or supercede the TCP/IP header evil bit?
Anm
It may be a joke, but I for one welcome our new nonet-using PDP10 overlords. (It would be better with nonets of balanced trits, but hey...)
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
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These April Fools jokes are getting old. Maybe the whole Pope thing was just another one of these jokes and by tomorrow we'll have a video of the Pope on TV saying "Haha! Prank! Fooled ya!!"
João Pinheiro
Since children started playing April Fools jokes in school.
:)
The first place I had heard of this was sometime in grade school. Teachers started telling us that April Fools Day really ended at noon, so we weren't allowed to prank in the afternoon. Really, it's just a way to prevent the waste of an entire day.
Much like in the town I grew up in - Hallowe'en "officially" ended at 8pm. They even blew the town whistle to let everyone know. It was an easy way to keep kids from roaming the streets all night long.
Personally, I wish we could make Xmas end at noon. Not being superstitious, it sure would be nice to get some shopping in during an obligatory day off (and yes, I do realize the irony in that statement
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.