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List-of-April-Fools-RFCs.md
This is a list of links to IETF RFCs publishd on April 1st, sourced from the Wikipedia page April Fools' Day Request for Comments. I try to update it annually.
NUM.<br>YEAR<br>TITLE<br>AUTHOR
RFC 748<br>1978<br>TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option<br>M. Crispin
RFC 1097<br>1989<br>TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option<br>B. Miller
RFC 1149<br>1990<br>A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers<br>D. Waitzman
RFC 1216<br>1991<br>Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts<br>Poorer Richard
RFC 1217<br>1991<br>Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR)<br>V.Cerf
RFC 1313<br>1992<br>Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 — Internet Talk Radio<br>C. Partridge
RFC 1437<br>1993<br>The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium<br>N. Borenstein
RFC 1438<br>1993<br>Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs)<br>L. Chapin
RFC 1605<br>1994<br>SONET to Sonnet Translation<br>W. Shakespeare
RFC 1606<br>1994<br>A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9<br>J. Onions
RFC 1607<br>1994<br>A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY<br>V. Cerf
RFC 1776<br>1995<br>The Address is the Message<br>S. Crocker
RFC 1924<br>1996<br>A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses<br>R. Elz
RFC 1925<br>1996<br>The Twelve Networking Truths<br>R. Callon, Editor
RFC 1926<br>1996<br>An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM<br>J. Eriksson
RFC 1927<br>1996<br>Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents<br>C.Rogers
RFC 2100<br>1997<br>The Naming of Hosts<br>J. Ashworth
RFC 2321<br>1998<br>RITA — The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent<br>A. Bressen
RFC 2322<br>1998<br>Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp<br>K. van den Hout, A. Koopal, R. van Mook
RFC 2323<br>1998<br>IETF Identification and Security Guidelines<br>A. Ramos
RFC 2324<br>1998<br>Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP\1.0)<br>L. Masinter
RFC 2325<br>1998<br>Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage<br>M. Slavitch
RFC 2549<br>1999<br>IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service<br>D. Waitzman
RFC 2550<br>1999<br>Y10K and Beyond<br>S. Glassman, M. Manasse, J. Mogul
RFC 2795<br>2000<br>The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)<br>S. Christey
RFC 3091<br>2001<br>Pi Digit Generation Protocol<br>H. Kennedy
RFC 3092<br>2001<br>Etymology of "Foo"<br>D. Eastlake 3rd, C. Manros, E. Raymond
RFC 3093<br>2001<br>Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP)<br>M. Gaynor, S. Bradner
RFC 3251<br>2002<br>Electricity over IP<br>B. Rajagopalan
RFC 3252<br>2002<br>Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport<br>H. Kennedy
RFC 3514<br>2003<br>The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header<br>S. Bellovin
RFC 3751<br>2004<br>Omniscience Protocol Requirements<br>S. Bradner
RFC 4041<br>2005<br>Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts<br>A. Farrel
RFC 4042<br>2005<br>UTF-9 and UTF-19 — Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode<br>M. Crispin
RFC 4824<br>2007<br>The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS)<br>J. Hofmueller, A Bachmann, IO. zmoelnig
RFC 5241<br>2008<br>Naming Rights...