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Internet Engineering Task Force: April Fools' Day RFCs
- diwank 15y agoThese guys have an amazing sense of humor. Vint Cerf himself keeps making hilarious RFCs, for instance: "Twas the Night Before Start-up" [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc968 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc968] that ends with: 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... and "A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY" [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1607 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1607] that talks about the letters discovered in September 1993 in a reverse time-capsule apparently sent from 2023. My favorite is one by S. Christie about implementing The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2795 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2795]. :D