Intentionally amusing RFCs

Danman32

The CD that came with my SCP class had some amusing RFCs.
Great for laughs.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html - Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2100.html - The Naming of Hosts

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html - IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2550.html - Y10K and beyond

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2551.html - The Roman Standards Process

JDMurray

Here's another listing of humorous RFCs, many of which were published on April 1st:

RFC 527, Covill, D.L., ARPAWOCKY, May 1973

RFC 748, Crispin, Mark, TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option, 1 April 1978

RFC 968, Cerf, Vinton, Twas the Night Before Start-up, December, 1985

RFC 1097, Miller, B, TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option, 1 April 1989

RFC 1121, Kleinrock, Leonard, Cerf, Vinton, Boehm, Barry, Act One -- The Poems, September 1989

RFC 1149, Waitsman, D., A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers, 1 April 1990

RFC 1216, Richard, Poorer, Prof. Kynikos, Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts, 1 April 1991

RFC 1217, Cerf, Vinton, Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR), 1 April 1991

RFC 1300, Greenfield, S., Remembrances of Things Past, February 1992

RFC 1313, Partridge, C., Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio", 1 April 1992

RFC 1437, Borenstein, N., Linimon, M., The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium, 1 April 1993

RFC 1438, Chapin, L., Huitema, C., Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs), 1 April 1993

RFC 1605, Shakespeare, W., SONET to Sonnet Translation, 1 April 1994

RFC 1606, Onions, J., A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9, 1 April 1994

RFC 1607, Cerf, Vinton, A View From The 21st Century, 1 April 1994

RFC 1882, Hancock, B., The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas, December 1995

RFC 1925, Callon, R, The Twelve Networking Truths, 1 April 1996

RFC 2100, Ashworth, J., The Naming of Hosts, 1 April 1997

RFC 2321, Bressen, A., RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent", 1 April 1998

RFC 2322, van den Hout, K, Koopal, A, van Mook, R., Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp, 1 April 1998

RFC 2323, Ramos, A., IETF Identification and Security Guidelines, 1 April 1998

RFC 2324, Masinter, L., Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol", 1 April 1998

RFC 2325, Slavitch, M., Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2, 1 April 1998

RFC 2549, Waitzman, D., IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service, 1 April 1999

RFC 2550, Glassman, S., M. Manasse, Mogul, J, Y10K and Beyond, 1 April 1999

RFC 2551, Bradner, S, The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III, I April MCMXCIX

RFC 2795, Christey, S., The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS), 1 April 2000

RFC 3091, Kennedy, H, Pi Digit Generation Protocol, 1 April 2001

RFC 3092, Eastlake, D, Manros, C, Raymond, E, Etymology of "Foo", 1 April 2001

RFC 3093, Gaynor, M., Bradner, S., Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP), 1 April 2001

RFC 3251, Rajagopalan, B, Electricity over IP, 1 April 2002

RFC 3252, Kennedy, H., Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport, 1 April 2002

RFC 3514, S. Bellovin, The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header, 1 April 2003

RFC 3751, S. Bradner, Omniscience Protocol Requirements, 1 April 2004.