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!!! Overview
[{$pagename}]s are some [Request For Comments] ([RFCs]) that were written for [Humor] often released on April Fools Day.
!! [Humorous RFCs]
* [Internet Toaster]
* [RFC 527] — ARPAWOCKY
* [RFC 748] — Telnet randomly-lose option, M. Crispin, 4/1/1978, 2 pp.
* [RFC 968] — Twas the Night Before Start-up, V. Cerf, 12/1/1985, 2 pp.
* [RFC 1097] — Telnet subliminal-message option, B. Miller, 4/1/1989, 3 pp.
* [RFC 1121] — Act One - The Poems, J. Postel, L. Kleinrock, V. Cerf, B. Boehm, D. Waitzman , 9/1/1989, 6 pp.
* [RFC 1149] — A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers, D. Waitzman, 4/1/1990, 2 pp.
* [RFC 1216] — Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts, P. Kunikos, P. Richard, 3/30/1991, 4 pp.
* [RFC 1217] — Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR), V. Cerf, 4/1/1991, 5 pp.
* [RFC 1300] — Remembrances of Things Past, S. Greenfield, 2/1/1992, 4 pp.
* [RFC 1313] — Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313, Internet Talk Radio, C. Partridge, 4/1/1992, 3 pp.
* [RFC 1437] — The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium, N. Borenstein, M. Linimon, 4/1/1993, 6 pp.
* [RFC 1438] — Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs), L. Chapin, C. Huitema, 4/1/1993, 2 pp.
* [RFC 1605] — SONET to Sonnet Translation, W. Shakespeare, 4/1/1994, 3 pp.
* [RFC 1606] — A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9, J. Onions, 4/1/1994, 4 pp.
* [RFC 1607] — A View from the 21st Century, V. Cerf, 4/1/1994, 13 pp.
* [RFC 1776] — The Address is the Message, S. Crocker, 4/1/1995, 2 pp.
* [RFC 1882] — The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas, B. Hancock, 12/1/1995, 5 pp.
* [RFC 1924] — A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses, R. Elz, 4/1/1996, 6 pp.
* [RFC 1925] — The Twelve Networking Truths, R. Callon, 4/1/1996, 3 pp.
* [RFC 1926] — An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM, 4/1/1996, J. Eriksson, 2 pp.
* [RFC 1927] — Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents, C. Rogers, 4/1/1996, 3 pp.
* [RFC 2100] — The Naming of Hosts, J. Ashworth, 4/1/1997, 3 pp.
* [RFC 2324] — Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0), L. Masinter, 4/1/1998, 10 pp.
* [RFC 2325] — Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2, M. Slavitch, 4/1/1998, 8 pp.
* [RFC 2549] — IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service, D. Waitzman, 4/1/1999, 6 pp., updates RFC 1149.
* [RFC 2550] — Y10K and Beyond, S. Glassman, M. Manasse, J. Mogul, 4/1/1999, 14 pp.
* [RFC 2551] — The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III, S. Bradner, 4/1/1999, 37 pp.
* [RFC 2795] — The Infinite Monkey [Protocol] Suite, S. Christey, 4/1/2000, 20 pp.
* [RFC 3091] - Pi Digit Generation [Protocol].
* [RFC 3092] - Etymology of "[Foo]".
* [RFC 3093] - Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP).
* [RFC 3251] - Electricity over IP
* [RFC 3252] - Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport
* [RFC 3514] - The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (Evil Bit)
* [RFC 3751] - Omniscience [Protocol] Requirements
* [RFC 4041] - Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts
* [RFC 4042] - UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of [Unicode]
* [RFC 4824] - The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System ([SFSS])
* [RFC 5241] - Naming Rights in IETF Protocols
* [RFC 5442] - A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections
* [RFC 5513] - IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms
* [RFC 5514] - IPv6 over Social Networks
* [RFC 5841] - TCP Option to Denote Packet Mood
* [RFC 5984] - Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding: ESPBasedForwarding
* [RFC 6214] _ Adaptation of [RFC 1149] for [IPv6]
* [RFC 6217] - Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer
* [RFC 6592] - The [Null] [Packet]
* [RFC 6593] - Service Undiscovery Using Hide-and-Go-Seek for the Domain Pseudonym System (DPS). IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC6593. 2013
* [RFC 6919] - Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC6919.
* [RFC 6921] - Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC6921.
* [RFC 7168] - The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA). (see [Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol])
* [RFC 7169] - The [NSA] (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension.
* [RFC 7511] - Scenic [Routing] for [IPv6].
* [RFC 7514] - Really Explicit Congestion [Notification] (RECN)
* [RFC 8135] - Complex Addressing in [IPv6]
* [RFC 8136] - Additional Transition Functionality for [IPv6].
* [RFC 8140] - The Arte of [ASCII]: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character
* [RFC 8367] - Wrongful Termination of [Internet Protocol] ([IP]) [Packets]
* [RFC 8369] - Internationalizing [IPv6] Using 128-[Bit] [Unicode]
!! More Information
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* [#1] - [Humorous RFCs|https://tangentsoft.net/rfcs/humorous.html#|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2018-08-10-