Comments on: RFC 1

RFC 1

loquacious — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:59:58 -0800

Happy 40th birthday, RFC 1!

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:03:58 -0800

Remarkable not least because Jon Postel's name isn't on it.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:09:08 -0800

Tee hee, 5 bit addresses.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:21:20 -0800

First!

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:28:12 -0800

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!

By: These Premises Are Alarmed

These Premises Are Alarmed — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:30:13 -0800

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)

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:31:33 -0800

Nerds rule the world. Standards for everyone or no one eats!

By: randomination

randomination — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:45:40 -0800

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.

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:47:46 -0800

See, that's where it all started to go wrong. It should've been a "Request For INTELLIGENT Comments".

By: absalom

absalom — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:16:16 -0800

Oh, you little IMP, you! Happy Birthday!

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:22:52 -0800

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".

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:12:01 -0800

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?

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:59:15 -0800

No comment.

By: Xoebe

Xoebe — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:37:01 -0800

"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.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:02:13 -0800

Which part did Al Gore do?

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:37:16 -0800

The Light Fantastic: Federal funding, and later legalizing the use of the federally-bootstrapped network for commercial purposes.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:45:37 -0800

It isn't until RFC 3 that they get around to documenting what RFCs look like. That's the way to do it. Seriously.

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:34:26 -0800

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.