April Fools' Day jokes

This is a collection of April Fools' Day jokes that I have not written. Hopefully, some day I'll have a section for jokes that I did write, too.

RFC 3514

April 1, 2003. Describes the use of the evil bit: "Firewalls, packet filters, intrusion detection systems, and the like often have difficulty distinguishing between packets that have malicious intent and those that are merely unusual. We define a security flag in the IPv4 header as a means of distinguishing the two cases."

RFC 3252

April 1, 2002. "This document describes the Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport (BLOAT): a reformulation of a widely-deployed network-layer protocol (IP [RFC791]), and two associated transport layer protocols (TCP [RFC793] and UDP [RFC768]) as XML [XML] applications. It also describes methods for transporting BLOAT over Ethernet and IEEE 802 networks as well as encapsulating BLOAT in IP for gatewaying BLOAT across the public Internet."

RFC 2795

April 1, 2000. "This memo describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite number of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters in order to determine when they have either produced the entire works of William Shakespeare or a good television show. The suite includes communications and control protocols for monkeys and the organizations that interact with them."

RFC 2550

April 1, 1999. "As we approach the end of the millennium, much attention has been paid to the so-called Y2K problem. Nearly everyone now regrets the short-sightedness of the programmers of yore who wrote programs designed to fail in the year 2000. Unfortunately, the current fixes for Y2K lead inevitably to a crisis in the year 10,000 when the programs are again designed to fail. This specification provides a solution to the Y10K problem which has also been called the YAK problem (hex) and the YXK problem (Roman numerals)."

RFC 1149 and RFC 2549

April 1, 1990 and April 1, 1999. A standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers, subsequently extended with Quality of Service information.

RFC 2322

April 1, 1998. Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp.

RFC 1776

April 1, 1995. The address is the message.

RFC 1605

April 1, 1994. "Because Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) transmits data in frames of bytes, it is fairly easy to envision ways to compress SONET frames to yield higher bandwidth over a given fiber optic link. This memo describes a particular method, SONET Over Novel English Translation (SONNET)."

RFC 1437

April 1, 1993. "This document defines one particular type of MIME data, the matter-transport/sentient-life-form type. The matter-transport/sentient-life-form MIME type is intended to facilitate the wider interoperation of electronic mail messages that include entire sentient life forms, such as human beings."

RFC 1097

April 1, 1989. "Hosts on the Internet that display subliminal messages within the Telnet protocol are expected to adopt and implement this standard."