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	April 1st RFC
		Every April 1st, the IETF publishes one or more unusual RFC proposals.
		The first was a Lewis Carroll pastiche; the second a parody of the TCP/IP documentation style, and the third a deadpan skewering of standards-document legalese, describing protocols for transmitting Internet data packets by carrier pigeon.
		RFC 1149 - Full text of RFC 1149 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt) Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ap/April_1st_RFC.html (613 words)

	RFC Frequently Asked Questions
		This label is maintained on RFCs as a reminder of the long and significant technical history that is recorded in the RFC series, and as a reminder that today's technical decisions, wise or not, may be with us for many years.
		We periodically publish a snapshot of this information as an RFC whose number is divisible by 100; the latest such RFC is STD 1.
		April 1st submissions are the only RFCs-to-be which do not need to be published as an internet-draft.
	www.rfc-editor.org /rfcfaq.html (1300 words)

	April Fools' Day RFC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RFC 1149 — Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on Avian Carriers.
		Certain portions of this RFC are obsolete: Doppler shift while flying on the Concorde is no longer a problem - the Concorde has retired from service.
		RFC 1437 — The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/April_1st_RFC (491 words)

	delicia_li: origin of April Fool-dictionary.com N wikipedia
		The April fools were subjected to ridicule and practical jokes and the tradition was born.
		In Australia and New Zealand the April 1 tradition exists, however it is accepted that if somebody pulls an April Fool's Trick after 12pm (mid-day), then the person pulling the trick is actually considered the fool (this caveat may also exist in other countries).
		April Fool is the codename for a spy and double agent who played a key role in the downfall of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
	delicia-li.livejournal.com /198091.html (2883 words)

	RFC 2549
		IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service or RFC 2549 is a humorous Request For Comments by the internet engineering task force IETF.
		It was written by D. Waitzman and released on April Fool's Day 1999; it is an April 1st RFC.
		It updates Waitzman's earlier RFC 1149 about the transmission of IP traffic via carrier pigeons.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/rf/RFC_2549.html (58 words)

	Jargon - RFC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The RFCs are unusual in that they are floated by technical experts acting on their own initiative and reviewed by the Internet at large, rather than formally promulgated through an institution such as ANSI.
		Emblematic of some of these advantages is the existence of a flourishing tradition of `joke' RFCs; usually at least one a year is published, usually on April 1st.
		The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work --- they manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to truly worldwide proportions.
	web.bilkent.edu.tr /Online/Jargon30/JARGON_R/RFC.HTML (267 words)

	April Fool's Day Summary
		Though the 1st of April appears to have been anciently observed in Great Britain as a general festival, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom.
		South Park: April 1st was advertised as being the premiere of the show's second season-and also the resolution of a cliffhanger where Eric Cartman was about to discover the identity of his father.
		In the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand the April 1 tradition exists, however it is accepted that if somebody pulls an April Fool's Trick after 12pm (mid-day), then the person pulling the trick is actually considered the fool (this caveat may also exist in other countries).
	www.bookrags.com /April_Fool's_Day (5133 words)

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		The OP must be able to make a legal Bradner Informational [Page 5] RFC 3751 Omniscience Protocol Requirements 1 April 2004 determination that a modified work is no longer legally the same as the original if the amount and type of modification exceed a subjective threshold.
		The OP client must be able to know, with certainty, who placed material on each computer, even in the cases where a third party has physical access to an unprotected computer or when the third party knows the user's logname and password.
		Bradner Informational [Page 6] RFC 3751 Omniscience Protocol Requirements 1 April 2004 FR9: The OP client must only implement the laws that apply to the specific computer that it is running on.
	www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc3751.txt?number=3751 (2480 words)

	Jake's Place - the Fun RFCs
		RFCs ("Requests For Comments") are the documents that describe the workings of the 'net "under the hood".
		The first RFC was dated April 7th 1969; however, what has since grown into what we've come to know as "the Internet" was at that time known as "the ARPA Network" - ARPA being the Advanced Research Project Agency, largely intertwined with the U.S. Department of Defense.
		So, I suggest that the trends of humor in RFCs might now be seen as an indication of the state of humor and correspondingly the economy, of the computer industries in particular and even of the populace in general, as the world becomes increasingly connected.
	members.aol.com /RLentz6317/home/funrfcs.htm (880 words)

	April Fools' Day RFC's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		RFC 1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
		This RFC describes a protocol to dynamically hand out ip-numbers on field networks and small events that don't necessarily have a clear organisational body.
		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.
	www.xinu.nl /unix/humour/april-1st-rfcs.html (470 words)

	Rootsecure.net \| Security Related April Fools 2003 Roundup
		April 1st, the time for journalists to make up stories, website designers to redirect their sites, and everyone else to try and sort out fact from fiction.
		From its traditional French roots in 1562, April the 1st has now truly evolved embracing the digital age in its stride.
		April fools started appearing as early as the preceding morning from some publications, which had the desired effect of successfully confusing a number of people, especially those eagerly awaiting them the next day.
	www.rootsecure.net /?p=reports/april_fools_2003 (554 words)

	[No title]
		This RFC REQUIRES the contents of the payload to be encoded in the base-64 encoding of RFC 2045 [RFC2045], but removes the requirement that the encoded output MUST be wrapped on 76-character lines.
		Kennedy Informational [Page 4] RFC 3252 Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport 1 April 2002 The TCP offset element was expanded to a maximum of 255 from 16 to allow for the increased size of the header in XML.
		Kennedy Informational [Page 5] RFC 3252 Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport 1 April 2002 To calculate the length and checksum fields of the UDP element, a canonicalized form of the element MUST be used as in section 2.1.
	www.ietf.org /rfc/rfc3252.txt (1650 words)

	Almost a joke
		Starting with the telnet randomly lose option (RFC 748) in 1978 and continuing to the present day, the RFC editor has published real-looking but bogus technical specifications on the first of April.
		This RFC is also a parody, but one that a number of people have already noted may be a bit too close to the truth for comfort.
		In the RFC we claim that the FEP does not change the security barrier created by a firewall, since firewalls are generally ineffective if the attacker has a confederate on the inside.
	www.networkworld.com /columnists/2001/0409bradner.html (647 words)

	DWH - Thoughts - Failed Blog
		On April 1st, 1990, RFC 1149 was introduced.
		RFC 1149, entitled "Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers", describes how data can be sent between two computers via carrier pigeons.
		So, today's April 1st, aka April Fool's Day.
	www.fantasien.net /bastian/thoughts/blog.html (1077 words)

	Talk:April Fools' Day RFC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I strongly suspect he arranged for this RFC to be published on 1 April 2005 as a meta-joke - he was, after all, the author of the first April 1st RFC!
		There's one exception: if it's an April 1st joke, it'll be dated "1 April (year)".
		So RFC 4042 is indeed an April 1st joke, and RFC 852 is not (as it's dated "April 1983" and not "1 April 1983").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:April_Fools'_Day_RFC (575 words)

	DomainsAreFree - Definition of Request For Comments
		RFC are published by the RFC Editor who is under the general direction of the IAB.
		RFC 1, entitled "Host Software", was written by Steve Crocker from the University of California, Los Angeles, and published on April 7, 1969.
		RFC 2047 specifies a standard way of encoding non US-ASCII characters into a string that identifies both the character set to use and the actual characters.
	www.domainsarefree.com /glossary/Request_for_Comments.html (2593 words)

	Indexed Repository of RFC Documents [RFC-Ref]
		Several years ago a new version of RFC repository appeared at the site Zvon.org and thanks to some unique features the repository became rather popular.
		The RFCs are now fully indexed and so orientation in the standards is now much easier.
		The Frontpage, link leads to the beginning of the index, STD to official standards, BCP to best current practices, FYI to for your information series, and Humor to humorous RFCs published on the 1st April.
	rfc-ref.org (154 words)

	office april fools jokes page - april fools jokes for the office
		However, it is unlikely that this explanation of April Fool's Day’s origin is correct.
		1st April 2006--GameFaqs replaced its front page with one that says that it had been shut down by an Anti-Cheating Organisation, later a link was included at the bottom of the page for careful people linking to the real homepage.
		In Denmark the 1st of May is known as "Maj-kat", meaning quite simply "may-cat", and is identical to April Fool's day.
	www.theramonitor.com /office_april_fools_jokes.html (4107 words)

	Entertaining RFC's, Funny, April Fool's
		RFC 1149; Waitsman, D.; A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers; 1 April 1990
		RFC 1437; Borenstein, N.; Linimon, M.; The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium; 1 April 1993
		RFC 1606; Onions, J.; A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9; 1 April 1994
	www.livinginternet.com /i/ia_rfc_fun.htm (469 words)

	Public Address \| Great New Zealand Argument \| Information Entrepreneurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		They controlled a good deal of research funding, and they made it clear that universities that did not heed their instructions on crucial issues could expect to see the money dry up.
		But at the same time, they established a process that allowed their decisions to be tested: the Request for Comment, or RFC.
		RFC 2486, published in 1998, is not a technical document, but a remembrance of the first RFC editor, Jon Postel, the "Father of the Internet".
	publicaddress.net /print,2494.sm (3186 words)

	RFC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Well-known joke RFCs have included 527 (“ARPAWOCKY”, R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973), 748 (“Telnet Randomly-Lose Option”, Mark R. Crispin; 1 April 1978), and 1149 (“A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”, D. Waitzman, BBN STC; 1 April 1990).
		The first was a Lewis Carroll pastiche; the second a parody of the TCP-IP documentation style, and the third a deadpan skewering of standards-document legalese, describing protocols for transmitting Internet data packets by carrier pigeon (since actually implemented; see Appendix A).
		The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work — they frequently manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to truly worldwide proportions.
	www.catb.org /~esr/jargon/html/R/RFC.html (277 words)

	Reactions to RFC 3514
		As this is an Informational RFC and support is not yet widespread this option is disabled by default.
		In RFC 3514 you don't appear to discuss the conditions that will cause the so called evil bit to be set.
		However, if we combine RFC 3514 with RFC 2549 (which updated RFC 1149), then a carrier with suitable conditioning can be made to detect evil intent and set the bit accordingly.
	www.cs.columbia.edu /~smb/3514.html (685 words)

	Uppsala Software Factory - The APRIL Scam
		APRIL is probably the best program I've never written.
		For more information about the program and downloading instructions, please point your browser to: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/april.html or to: http://xray.bmc.uu.se/usf/april.html The beta version of APRIL will only be available today so as to limit the number of bonafide beta testers to a manageable number.
		Eric Fauman detected a bug in the APRIL program (announced here yesterday), the effect of which was that, no matter what the input, the result was always lysozyme phases.
	alpha2.bmc.uu.se /usf/april_new.html (3507 words)

	Chelmsford RFC
		Chelmsford 1st team closed a somewhat disappointing season by recording a hard-fought 31-21 victory against local rivals Basildon at Coronation Park on Saturday 8th April.
		Congratulations to the guys who have kept the faith and contined to train and put in the effort on the park, here's to a determined start to the next season in September as we strive to regain a position in 3NE.
		The "Monday night team" are in the Plate Final of the Shepherd Neame Floodlit competition at Southend RFC on Monday 10th April, 7:45pm kick-off.
	groups.msn.com /chelmsfordrfc (308 words)

	Request For Comments from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Few RFCs are standards but all Internet standards are recorded in RFCs.
		Perhaps the single most influential RFC has been RFC 822, the Internet electronic mail format standard.
		The RFCs are most remarkable for how well they work - they manage to have neither the ambiguities that are usually rife in informal specifications, nor the committee-perpetrated misfeatures that often haunt formal standards, and they define a network that has grown to truly worldwide proportions.
	foldoc.org /?RFC (311 words)

	fatalmind.com \| fun \| 1st April RFC
		Most of them were released on the 1st of April, claiming to be "funny", for some reason in some cultures.
		This Document has the status WORK IN PROGRESS and will be released as RFC as soon as the algorithm definition was completed.
		No 1st April RFC was issued in 2006, however something not-so-serious happend!
	www.fatalmind.com /fun/rfc (440 words)

	Bergen Linux User Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The highly unofficial CPIP WG 11 years ago, April 1st 1990, rfc 1149 was written.
		This rfc specifies a protocol for IP over avian carriers, CPIP (carrier pigeon internet protocol).
		Vesta Brevdueforening has given you rfc 1149 support for Linux.
	www.blug.linux.no /rfc1149 (69 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		RFC 1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
		RFC 1217 Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR)
		RFC 1437 The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium
	www.xs4all.nl /~itsme/projects/misc/april1strfcs.html (106 words)

	[No title]
		They will be posted on the RFC Editor web site and relayed to the IETF Secretariat so that they may update their website and pertinent files.
		I am saying that RFC Editor is the wrong entity to solve their problems today and that many of them can and should help themselves.
		There are lots of useful services that the RFC Editor can provide that will be of greater value to a larger audience, possibly for the same amount of effort as dealing with this service as viruses and spam get worse.
	www.postel.org /pipermail/rfc-interest.mbox/rfc-interest.mbox (11938 words)

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