Some will know, and some won't, about things known as RFCs (or correctly, Request for Comments). As the Wikipedia entry says the, RFCs on the Internet form the backbone rules which we all follow for how technology should work. They are formal memos which are peer reviewed and should someone design something that breaches them you may hear the phrase that it is "not RFC compliant".
There are RFCs for everything, how mail work, the web, news, Apple's zerconf, quite literally everything. My personal favourite is an experimental protocol from 1999 held in RFC 2549 title "IP over Avian Carrier with Quality of Service" and outlines how we can use carrier pigeons to carry Internet traffic!
The moral of this tale is that geeks do have a sense of humour, albeit a poor one.
2 comments:
"There is ongoing litigation about which is the prior art: carrier or egg."
Awesome.
The predecessor to RFC 1549 is RFC 1149, which was shown to actually work:
http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/
April 28, 2001. A little over three weeks too late, if you ask me.
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