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RFC On New Internet Routing Protocol

Posted by Zonk on from the making-folks-safe-one-packet-at-a-time dept.

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.

3 of 148 comments (clear)

  1. i can only take so much... by dhbiker · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    this is a fool too far, nothing to see here - come back tomorrow when you can actually trust the `news`

  2. april 1 by sPaKr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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).

  3. How long is this going to go on? by gpmac · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's two in a row. At least the first one was somewhat funny....