IETF April Fools
I made this page before I realized Wikipedia have a list, it was a joy to try and find every single April Fools' joke in the IETF RFC database.
After I found the list on Wikipedia I completed my list with a few that I had missed.
- 2020 - The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO)
- 2020 - The Quantum Bug
- 2019 - Hypertext Jeopardy Protocol (HTJP/1.0)
- 2019 - Customer Management DNS Resource Records
- 2018 - Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode
- 2018 - Wrongful Termination of Internet Protocol (IP) Packets ' 2016 - Complex Addressing in IPv6
- 2016 - Additional Transition Functionality for IPv6
- 2016 - The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character
- 2015 - Really Explicit Congestion Notification (RECN)
- 2015 - Scenic Routing for IPv6
- 2014 - The NSA (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension
- 2014 - The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)
- 2013 - Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication
- 2013 - Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
- 2012 - Service Undiscovery Using Hide-and-Go-Seek for the Domain Pseudonym System (DPS)
- 2012 - The Null Packet
- 2011 - Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6
- 2011 - Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding: ESPBasedForwarding
- 2011 - Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer
- 2010 - TCP Option to Denote Packet Mood
- 2009 - IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms
- 2009 - IPv6 over Social Networks
- 2008 - A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections
- 2008 - Naming Rights in IETF Protocols
- 2007 - The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS)
- 2005 - Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts
- 2005 - UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode
- 2004 - Omniscience Protocol Requirements
- 2003 - The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header
- 2002 - Electricity over IP
- 2001 - Pi Digit Generation Protocol
- 2001 - Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP)
- 2001 - Etymology of "Foo"
- 2000 - The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
- 1999 - Y10K and Beyond
- 1999 - IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
- 1999 - The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III
- 1998 - RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent
- 1998 - Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp
- 1998 - Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2
- 1997 - The Naming of Hosts
- 1996 - The Twelve Networking Truths
- 1996 - Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents
- 1996 - An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM
- 1996 - A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses
- 1995 - The Address is the Message
- 1994 - SONET to Sonnet Translation
- 1994 - A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY
- 1994 - A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9
- 1993 - The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium
- 1993 - Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs)
- 1992 - Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio
- 1991 - Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR)
- 1991 - Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts
- 1990 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
- 1989 - TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option
- 1989 - The Helminthiasis of the Internet
- 1978 - TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option
Last update:
October 2, 2021