
The difference between a pidgeon and a clothes-peg - How the internet works #01
This video is about some humorous RFC's from the IETF. There are some about IP over Avian Carriers, encoding IPv6 Addresses in a single Unicode character or how to handle IP Address assigning using clothes-pegs. These were coincidentally all written on the first of april!
Links:
A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
Hypertext Jeopardy Protocol (HTJP/1.0): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8565
Electricity over IP: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3251
Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8369
A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1924
Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2322
A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1606
Even more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments
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