RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
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RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
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Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#2Text of the RFC, which is one of the classic "April Fools" ones that the IETF does every year: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#3What if used bees instead of birds?
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#4Surprisingly many posts and surprisingly few discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Avian%20Carriers%22&sort=by...
2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14531252
2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818955
The same was noted 6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999813
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#5Someone implemented it, too
https://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/writeup/
64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#6Text of the RFC, which is one of the classic "April Fools" ones that the IETF does every year: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
I just stumbled over this gem:
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Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#7What if used bees instead of birds?
How about both? Birds and the bees.
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#8Discussing RFC-1149 with Jon Postel is one of my favorite Internet memories... makes me think of him everytime this RFC is mentioned.
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#9I think more interesting than this RFC is the United States Army Pigeon Service. During WWII the force consisted of 54,000 pigeons. Over 90% of US Army messages sent by pigeons were received.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Pigeon_Serv...
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#10I think more interesting than this RFC is the United States Army Pigeon Service. During WWII the force consisted of 54,000 pigeons. Over 90% of US Army messages sent by pigeons were received. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Pigeon_Serv...
They must've implemented RFC 2549: