Post #2822787

2024-12-16 17:15 UTC

@simontatham@hachyderm.io The key words "MUST (BUT WE KNOW YOU WON'T)", "SHOULD CONSIDER", "REALLY SHOULD NOT", "OUGHT TO", "WOULD PROBABLY", "MAY WISH TO", "COULD", "POSSIBLE", and "MIGHT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 6919. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6919

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@can@haz.pink 2024-12-16 18:11

@anticomposite@wikis.world @simontatham@hachyderm.io tfw the IETF thought of your shitpost even before you did.

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@dwenius@toot.cat 2024-12-17 16:01

@anticomposite@wikis.world @EdG@mastodon.social @simontatham@hachyderm.io Is there any form of humor more absolutely niche than IETF RFC jokes? Like these are for an audience of dozens…luckily we are all on Fedi. I was actually online on the morning of April 1, 1990 when the canonical example, “RFC 1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers” dropped*, and it is deeply embedded in my headcanon Internet Timeline of Important Events. But I run into supposed industry professionals (even network and security admins!) who are completely unaware of this seminal document with alarming frequency. (*) the standard has since updated twice, once to add Quality of Service and once to add IPv6 support. A real world implementation was only partially successful, as latency and packet loss were substantial. The whole protocol is nerdvana and the commitment to the bit is exemplary… @

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