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Tom Rothamel writes "A few new RFCs were released today, including
rfc 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service,
rfc 2550: Y10K and Beyond, and
rfc 2551: The Roman Standards Process. "
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I liked last year's Rubber Chicken RFC ... i think it was a device for debugging something or other
This link from the Y10K RFC is also good:
http://www.loyd.net/y10k/index.html
Not all the numbers. It should have been
RFC MMCLI.
don't know about the others, but IP over avian carriers was done in RFC-1149. searching for RFCs published on 1 april turns up a fair number of other nice ones (eg, the TELNET subliminal-message option - RFC-1097).
-duncan
salient points:
A typical RITA is 51.25 cm long and yellow-orange in color. Either
natural or artificial substances may be used for construction. RITA
has very flexible characteristics, and thus can interoperate within
fairly broad parameters. Unlike most other tools described in
forthcoming RFC's, RITA does not require any IANA namespace
management. It is not anticipated that versions will be
incompatible, thus no versioning field is present. Interoperability
testing may be conducted at a future meeting of the IETF.
-dave turner
The author of RFC2549 and RFC1149 thanks you
for the compliment re: ASCII pigeons.
For those who complained its been done before,
please elaborate, where, other than 1149
The FTP server has been /.-ed. Try:f c2549.txt http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rf c2550.txt http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rf c2551.txt
http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/r
- Dan Anderson
Okay, okay, flame me for being short-sighted, but I think the 64-bit solution to the Y10k problem (which rolls over in the year 922,337,203,685,477) and definitely the 128-bit solution (which rolls over in the year 17,014,118,346,046,923,173,168,730,371,588,410) are probably both going to be satisfactory due to the eventual heat death or collapse of the universe.
2324 is the absolute BEST rfc ever written IMO.... Here is a link.
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You had better apease us and stop this philosophical philandering with misanthropological meanderings before we have to:
Say Ni to you again!
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
is this another april fools joke? I'm really getting tired of these.
BOFHs of the world have known that one for quite a while now. They just made it into an RFC recently and changed the name from "IP over Carrier Pigeon."
Like everything, however, it has its drawbacks in the form of reliability (the lack of it, actually). In particular, the physical medium must always have a surge protector somewhere, lest you don't mind having a high voltage spike fry the physical medium.
^D
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
All the good ones are done.
asinus sum et eo superbio
asinus sum et eo superbio
in omnibus veritas
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--
"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking
OK. To all these people who are whining about "yet another stupid April Fools prank", here's a tidbit for you:
Joke RFCs on April 1st are a long standing tradition -- probably longer than many of you have been on the 'net. If you want some good reading, go to http://www.rfc-editor.org and search for the various RFCs from March 31 or April 1.
These are my *favorite* part of April Fools day, because they often have some real geek humor in them, as opposed to alot of the stupid pranks that get pulled.
Consider yourself enlightened.
And updates RFC 1149
Anyone got a mirror? I want to kicked this one out to a trainee of mine and with a straight face tell him to study it.
It's called humor and understandably, it might be unfamiliar to you. I could show you something that is not humor and you could compare the two.
-- "Never call your girlfriend 'Butterball'. Not even once."
No more incompatible versions of PPP (packets by passenger pigeon)! This is a great day for the internet!
Of all the comments I've ever posted, this is definately one of them
What's the number of the RFC that explains how to make pigs fly?
Of all the comments I've ever posted, this is definately one of them
wget -t0 works for me
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
RFC 1149 is cute, but pretty short. And it WAS official as of 1990 (not "just recently"), although it may have been around before then.
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RFD 2549 is longer, funnier, and quite well thought out. I even hesitantly call it an improvement over the earlier, um, technology
lake effect weblog
{Network engineer in Chicago--looking for work!}
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2550.html
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2551.html
lake effect weblog
{Network engineer in Chicago--looking for work!}
I'll make a liby10k. I've already downloaded the specs and I'm going to, if possible, finish it today.
This looks like they took the document that describes the RFC process and did a search and replace to change "Internet" to "Roman." They also changed all numbers to use Roman numerals.
Not terribly funny. The others look more promising.
So now that they've defined how y10k dates are supposed to work, how long until we can have liby10k for Linux? This would be useful for converting y10k dates into traditional formats and back.
this is the funniest post i've read all day. here's hoping it was sarcastic.
-- neil
I just read (OK, I only skimmed) the files. Someone actually seems to have put some good effort into these, as opposed to the simple earlier blurb on cold fusion. I especially like the ASCII pigeons.
--FroBugg
Call me uneducated, but what the hell is this crap? Y10k? Flying pigs? RFC has degenerated from back in the day.
This is RFC 1925 "Twelve networking truths":
(3) With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is
not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they
are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them
as they fly overhead.
Grunt. Oink, oink.
It's about time; I was getting tired of the jokes ...