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Modern data transfer

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What can I say? There are some strange things in the internet.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

I'm sure some things like that actually get funding.
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you also have to remember thats a 1990 experimental RFC. In areas with really crappy phone lines, or badly damaged infrastructure, it could in fact be quite useful. That reminds me of a story about a really remote village that uses wifi on a messenger bike to store up messages and things they want to send out when it reaches the closest major town...
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feyd wrote:you also have to remember thats a 1990 experimental RFC.
Nope, april fools joke..

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IP over Avian Carriers or RFC 1149 is a humorous Request for Comments document issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force. It describes how Internet Protocol traffic may be carried by homing pigeons. It was written by D. Waitzman and released on April Fool's Day 1990, one of the April 1st RFCs.

RFC 1149 was actually implemented by the Bergen Linux User Group.

Waitzman described an improvement of his protocol in RFC 2549, IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service, (April 1, 1999).
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rfc2549 wrote:Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries, as shown on the scale.
:D

Well is it not obvious that something like this is really a joke? Both 2549 and 1149 are jokes but they are formulated so that they do not at first glance look like jokes.
Getting funds for something like these avian carriers is not impossible as bat bombs show
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At the university the network admins always remembered us with the following: Never underestimate the bandwith of a student's bike :)
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How can I transfer [insert ludicrous size here] daily from LA to NY?

FedEx. ;)
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