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Internet Engineering Task Force: April Fools' Day RFCs

2 pointsby diwankabout 13 years ago

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diwankabout 13 years ago
These guys have an amazing sense of humor. Vint Cerf himself keeps making hilarious RFCs, for instance:<p>"Twas the Night Before Start-up" [<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc968" rel="nofollow">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc968</a>] that ends with:<p><pre><code> At last he was finished and wearily sighed and turned to explain why the system had died. I twisted my fingers and counted to ten; an off-by-one index had done it again... </code></pre> and "A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY" [<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1607" rel="nofollow">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1607</a>] that talks about the letters discovered in September 1993 in a reverse time-capsule apparently sent from 2023.<p>My favorite is one by S. Christie about implementing The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) [<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2795" rel="nofollow">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2795</a>].<p>:D