RFC 1

April 7, 2009 12:59 PM

Happy 40th birthday, RFC 1!
posted by loquacious (17 comments total)

Remarkable not least because Jon Postel's name isn't on it.
posted by ardgedee at 1:03 PM on April 7

Tee hee, 5 bit addresses.
posted by tommasz at 1:09 PM on April 7

First!
posted by blue_beetle at 1:21 PM on April 7

No summary of all the wacky-ass RFCs that have made it in over the years, like IP via carrier pigeon or IP Tunneling over HTTP? Or SMTP - man, people have been falling for the RFC 821 April Fool's joke for years!
posted by GuyZero at 1:28 PM on April 7

Oh was there an RFC this year? I forgot to check! Truly, I am becoming less technical.

Of course there was:

5513 IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms. A. Farrel. April 1
2009. (Format: TXT=13931 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

5514 IPv6 over Social Networks. E. Vyncke. April 1 2009. (Format:
TXT=10127 bytes) (Status: EXPERIMENTAL)
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 1:30 PM on April 7

Nerds rule the world. Standards for everyone or no one eats!
posted by Burhanistan at 1:31 PM on April 7

Metafilter: If each of these keystrokes causes a message to be sent which in return invokes instructions to our display station we will quickly become bored.
posted by randomination at 1:45 PM on April 7

See, that's where it all started to go wrong. It should've been a "Request For INTELLIGENT Comments".
posted by wendell at 1:47 PM on April 7 [1 favorite has favorites]

Oh, you little IMP, you! Happy Birthday!
posted by absalom at 2:16 PM on April 7 [1 favorite has favorites]

I love the rarified air that the RFC process operates in. Smart engineers, nerds really, writing documents with no particular authority or right. But the good ones carry authority because of their quality, and the bad or dumb ones get ignored or "improved".
posted by Nelson at 2:22 PM on April 7

loquacious, with all due respect, which is not much, I know more about the net, the web, and non-web protocols than you'll ever know. Do you even know what an RFC is?
posted by Kwantsar at 5:12 PM on April 7 [1 favorite has favorites]

No comment.
posted by twoleftfeet at 6:59 PM on April 7

"loquacious, with all due respect, which is not much, I know more about the net, the web, and non-web protocols than you'll ever know. Do you even know what an RFC is?"

Is there an inside joke here that I am missing?

oh, and everybody loves Russian Fried Chicken.
posted by Xoebe at 7:37 PM on April 7

Which part did Al Gore do?
posted by The Light Fantastic at 12:02 AM on April 8

The Light Fantastic: Federal funding, and later legalizing the use of the federally-bootstrapped network for commercial purposes.
posted by blasdelf at 2:37 AM on April 8

It isn't until RFC 3 that they get around to documenting what RFCs look like.

That's the way to do it. Seriously.
posted by DU at 4:45 AM on April 8

Is there an inside joke here that I am missing?

Do a search for "all due respect" on the page Kwantsar linked to. Apparently you can't link directly to comments on archive.org.
posted by dirigibleman at 7:34 AM on April 8