Thursday 26 August 1999

Humorous RFCs

This is a collection of Internet standards documents, with a difference from the usual ones describing the intricacies of negotiating the parameters of a PPP connection, for example. Many of them were published on April 1. A similar list to this one is available from the IETF Applications Area’s April 1st/Humor RFCs.

The links on this pages lead to the HTML-formatted RFCs at the IETF.

Last updated: 6 April 2013.

April 1

RFC748
TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option (M. Crispin, 1 April 1978)
RFC1097
TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option (B. Miller, 1 April 1989)
RFC1149
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers (D. Waitzman, 1 April 1990)
RFC1216
Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts (Poorer Richard and Prof. Kynikos, 1 April 1991)
RFC1217
Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) (V. Cerf, 1 April 1991)
RFC1313
Today’s Programming for KRFC AM 1313 — Internet Talk Radio (C. Partridge, 1 April 1992)
RFC1437
The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium (N. Borenstein and M. Linimon, 1 April 1993)
RFC1438
Internet Engineering Taskforce — Statements of Boredom (L. Chapin and C. Huitema, 1 April 1993)
RFC1605
SONET to Sonnet Translation (W. Shakespeare, 1 April 1994)
RFC1606
A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9 (J. Onions, 1 April 1994)
RFC1607
A View from the 21st Century (V. Cerf, 1 April 1994)
RFC1776
The Address is the Message (S. Crocker, 1 April 1995)
RFC1924
A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses (R. Elz, 1 April 1996)
RFC1925
The Twelve Networking Truths (R. Callon, Editor, 1 April 1996)
RFC1926
An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM (J. Eriksson, 1 April 1996)
RFC1927
Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents (C. Rogers, 1 April 1996)
RFC2321
RITA — The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent (A. Bressen, 1 April 1998)
RFC2322
Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp (K. van den Hout, A. Koopal, R. van Mook, 1 April 1998)
RFC2323
IETF Identification and Security Guidelines (A. Ramos, 1 April 1998)
RFC2324
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (L. Masinter, 1 April 1998)
RFC2325
Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2 (M. Slavitch, 1 April 1998)
RFC2549
IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (D. Waitzman, 1 April 1999)
RFC2550
Y10K and Beyond (S. Glassman, M. Manasse and J. Mogul, 1 April 1999)
RFC2551
The Roman Standards Process — Revision III (S. Bradner, I April MCMXCIX)
RFC2795
The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) (S. Christey, 1 April 2000)
RFC3091
Pi Digit Generation Protocol (H. Kennedy, 1 April 2001)
RFC3092
Etymology of “Foo” (D. Eastlake 3rd, C. Manros and E. Raymond, 1 April 2001)
RFC3093
Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) (M. Gaynor and S. Bradner, 1 April 2001)
RFC3251
Electricity over IP (B. Rajagopalan, 1 April 2002)
RFC3252
Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport (H. Kennedy, 1 April 2002)
RFC3514
The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (S. Bellovin, 1 April 2003)
RFC3751
Omniscience Protocol Requirements (S. Bradner, 1 April 2004)
RFC4041
Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts (A. Farrel, 1 April 2005)
RFC4042
UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode (M. Crispin, 1 April 2005)
RFC4824
The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) (J. Hofmueller, A. Bachman, IO. zmoelnig, 1 April 2007)
RFC5241
Naming Rights in IETF Protocols (A. Falk, S. Bradner, 1 April 2008)
RFC5242
A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections (J. Klensin, H. Alvestrand, 1 April 2008)
RFC5513
IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms (A. Farrel, 1 April 2009)
RFC5514
IPv6 over Social Networks (E. Vyncke, 1 April 2009)
RFC5841
TCP Option to Denote Packet Mood (R. Hay, W. Turkal, 1 April 2010)
RFC5984
Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding (K-M. Moller, 1 April 2011)
RFC6214
Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6 (B. Carpenter, R. Hinden, 1 April 2011)
RFC6217
Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer (T. Ritter, 1 April 2011)
RFC6592
The Null Packet (C. Pignataro, 1 April 2012)
RFC6593
Service Undiscovery Using Hide-and-Go-Seek for the Domain Pseudonym System (DPS) (C. Pignataro, J. Clarke, G. Salgueiro, 1 April 2012)
RFC6919
Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels (R. Barnes, S. Kent, E. Rescorla, 1 April 2013)
RFC6921
Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light(FTL) Communication (A. Falk, S. Bradner, 1 April 2013)

Poetry

RFC527
ARPAWOCKY (R. Merryman, 22 June 1973)
RFC968
Twas the Night Before Start-up (V. Cerf, December 1985)
RFC1121
Act One — The Poems (J. Postel, L. Kleinrock, V. Cerf and B. Boehm, September 1989)
RFC1300
Remembrances of Things Past (S. Greenfield, February 1992)
RFC1882
The 12 Days of Technology Before Christmas (B. Hancock, December 1995)
RFC2100
The Naming of Hosts (J. Ashworth, 1 April 1997)

Miscellaneous

RFC602
The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney with Care (B. Metcalfe, December 1973)
RFC1439
The Uniqueness of Unique Identifiers (C. Finseth, March 1993)
RFC1876
A Means for Expressing Location Information in the Domain Name System (C. Davis, P. Vixie, T. Goodwin, I. Dickinson, January 1996)
RFC2410
The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec (R. Glenn and S. Kent, November 1998)