Every April 1st, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes one or more unusual Request for comment (RFC) proposals. Well-known joke RFCs have included 527 "ARPAWOCKY", 748 "Telnet Randomly-Lose Option" and 1149 "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers". 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.
The list:
- RFC 527 - Full text of RFC 0527 ARPAWOCKY R. Merryman, UCSD; 22 June 1973
- RFC 0748 - Full text of RFC 0748 Telnet randomly-lose option. M.R. Crispin. Apr-01-1978. (Format: TXT=2741 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
- RFC 0852 - Full text of RFC 0852 ARPANET short blocking feature. A.G. Malis. Apr-01-1983. (Format: TXT=17151 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
- RFC 1097 - Full text of RFC 1097 Telnet subliminal-message option. B. Miller. Apr-01-1989. (Format: TXT=5490 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)
- RFC 1149 - Full text of RFC 1149 Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers. D. Waitzman. Apr-01-1990. (Format: TXT=3329 bytes) (Updated by RFC 2549) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
- RFC 1216 - Full text of RFC 1216 Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts. Poorer Richard, Prof. Kynikos. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=8130 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1217 - Full text of RFC 1217 Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR). Vint Cerf. Apr-01-1991. (Format: TXT=11079 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1313 - Full text of RFC 1313 Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio. C. Partridge. Apr-01-1992. (Format: TXT=5444 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1437 - Full text of RFC 1437 The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium. N. Borenstein, M. Linimon. Apr-01-1993. (Format: TXT=13356 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1438 - Full text of RFC 1438 Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs). A. Lyman Chapin, C. Huitema. Apr-01-1993. (Format: TXT=3044 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1605 - Full text of RFC 1605 SONET to Sonnet Translation. William Shakespeare. Apr-01-1994. (Format: TXT=4451 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1606 - Full text of RFC 1606 A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9. J. Onions. Apr-01-1994. (Format: TXT=8398 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1607 - Full text of RFC 1607 A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY. Vint Cerf. Apr-01-1994. (Format: TXT=28165 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1776 - Full text of RFC 1776 The Address is the Message. Steve Crocker. Apr-01-1995. (Format: TXT=2051 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1924 - Full text of RFC 1924 A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses. R. Elz. Apr-01-1996. (Format: TXT=10409 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1925 - Full text of RFC 1925 The Twelve Networking Truths. R. Callon. Apr-01-1996. (Format: TXT=4294 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1926 - Full text of RFC 1926 An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM. J. Eriksson. Apr-01-1996. (Format: TXT=2969 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 1927 - Full text of RFC 1927 Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents. C. Rogers. Apr-01-1996. (Format: TXT=5254 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2100 - Full text of RFC 2100 The Naming of Hosts. J. Ashworth. Apr-01-1997. (Format: TXT=4077 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2321 - Full text of RFC 2321 RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent. A. Bressen. Apr-01-1998. (Format: TXT=12302 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2322 - Full text of RFC 2322 Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp. K. van den Hout, A. Koopal, R. van Mook. Apr-01-1998. (Format: TXT=12665 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2323 - Full text of RFC 2323 IETF Identification and Security Guidelines. A. Ramos. Apr-01-1998. (Format: TXT=9257 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2324 - Full text of RFC 2324 Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0). L. Masinter. Apr-01-1998. (Format: TXT=19610 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2325 - Full text of RFC 2325 Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2. M. Slavitch. Apr-01-1998. (Format: TXT=12726 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2549 - Full text of RFC 2549 IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service. D. Waitzman. Apr-01-1999. (Format: TXT=9519 bytes) (Updates RFC 1149) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2550 - Full text of RFC 2550 Y10K and Beyond. S. Glassman, M. Manasse, J. Mogul. Apr-01-1999. (Format: TXT=28011 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2551 - Full text of RFC 2551 The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III. S. Bradner. Apr-01-1999. (Format: TXT=28054 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 2795 - Full text of RFC 2795 The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS). S. Christey. Apr-01-2000. (Format: TXT=42902 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 3091 - Full text of RFC 3091 Pi Digit Generation Protocol. H. Kennedy. Apr-01-2001
- RFC 3092 - Full text of RFC 3092 Etymology of "Foo". D. Eastlake 3rd, C. Manros, E. Raymond. Apr-01-2001
- RFC 3093 - Full text of RFC 3093 Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP). M. Gaynor, S. Bradner. Apr-01-2001
- RFC 3251 - Full text of RFC 3251 Electricity over IP. B. Rajagopalan. Apr-01-2002 (Format: TXT=18941 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)
- RFC 3252 - Full text of RFC 3252 Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport. H. Kennedy. Apr-01-2002
- RFC 3514 - Full text of RFC 3514 The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header. S. Bellovin. Apr-01-2003
