RFC Archive
FYE - For Your Enjoyment

Introduction

Within the RFCs is there several very amusing RFCs of more or less serious nature. Here is a small index that I hope will bring a smile to your face and possibly understand some more bizzare elements of the network peoples odd nature. This compiled list of such RFCs is called FYE - For Your Enjoyment by myself and there is no "official" name for it to my knowledge.

RFC 527

ARPAWOCKY

RFC 968

Twas the night before start-up

RFC 1097

Telnet subliminal-message option

RFC 1121

Act one - the poems

RFC 1149

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
(Updated by RFC 2549)

RFC 1217

Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR)

RFC 1300

Remembrances of Things Past

RFC 1313

Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio

RFC 1437

The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium

RFC 1438

Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs)

RFC 1605

SONET to Sonnet Translation

RFC 1606

A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9

RFC 1607

A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY

RFC 1776

The Address is the Message

RFC 1882

The 12-Days of Technology Before Christmas

RFC 1924

A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses

RFC 1925

The Twelve Networking Truths

RFC 1926

An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM

RFC 1927

Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents

RFC 2100

The Naming of Hosts

RFC 2310

The Safe Response Header Field

RFC 2321

RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent

RFC 2322

Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp

RFC 2323

IETF Identification and Security Guidelines

RFC 2324

Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)

RFC 2325

Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2

RFC 2549

IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service
(Updates RFC 1149)

RFC 2550

Y10K and Beyond

RFC 2551

The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III

RFC 2795

The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

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