This is a collection of Internet standards documents, with a difference from the usual ones describing the intricacies of negotiating the parameters of a PPP connection, for example. Many of them were published on April 1. A similar list to this one is available from the IETF Applications Area’s April 1st/Humor RFCs.
The links on this pages lead to the HTML-formatted RFCs at the IETF.
Last updated: 6 April 2013.
April 1
- RFC748
- TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option (M. Crispin, 1 April 1978)
- RFC1097
- TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option (B. Miller, 1 April 1989)
- RFC1149
- A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers (D. Waitzman, 1 April 1990)
- RFC1216
- Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts (Poorer Richard and Prof. Kynikos, 1 April 1991)
- RFC1217
- Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) (V. Cerf, 1 April 1991)
- RFC1313
- Today’s Programming for KRFC AM 1313 — Internet Talk Radio (C. Partridge, 1 April 1992)
- RFC1437
- The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium (N. Borenstein and M. Linimon, 1 April 1993)
- RFC1438
- Internet Engineering Taskforce — Statements of Boredom (L. Chapin and C. Huitema, 1 April 1993)
- RFC1605
- SONET to Sonnet Translation (W. Shakespeare, 1 April 1994)
- RFC1606
- A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9 (J. Onions, 1 April 1994)
- RFC1607
- A View from the 21st Century (V. Cerf, 1 April 1994)
- RFC1776
- The Address is the Message (S. Crocker, 1 April 1995)
- RFC1924
- A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses (R. Elz, 1 April 1996)
- RFC1925
- The Twelve Networking Truths (R. Callon, Editor, 1 April 1996)
- RFC1926
- An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM (J. Eriksson, 1 April 1996)
- RFC1927
- Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents (C. Rogers, 1 April 1996)
- RFC2321
- RITA — The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent (A. Bressen, 1 April 1998)
- RFC2322
- Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp (K. van den Hout, A. Koopal, R. van Mook, 1 April 1998)
- RFC2323
- IETF Identification and Security Guidelines (A. Ramos, 1 April 1998)
- RFC2324
- Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) (L. Masinter, 1 April 1998)
- RFC2325
- Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2 (M. Slavitch, 1 April 1998)
- RFC2549
- IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (D. Waitzman, 1 April 1999)
- RFC2550
- Y10K and Beyond (S. Glassman, M. Manasse and J. Mogul, 1 April 1999)
- RFC2551
- The Roman Standards Process — Revision III (S. Bradner, I April MCMXCIX)
- RFC2795
- The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) (S. Christey, 1 April 2000)
- RFC3091
- Pi Digit Generation Protocol (H. Kennedy, 1 April 2001)
- RFC3092
- Etymology of “Foo” (D. Eastlake 3rd, C. Manros and E. Raymond, 1 April 2001)
- RFC3093
- Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) (M. Gaynor and S. Bradner, 1 April 2001)
- RFC3251
- Electricity over IP (B. Rajagopalan, 1 April 2002)
- RFC3252
- Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport (H. Kennedy, 1 April 2002)
- RFC3514
- The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header (S. Bellovin, 1 April 2003)
- RFC3751
- Omniscience Protocol Requirements (S. Bradner, 1 April 2004)
- RFC4041
- Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts (A. Farrel, 1 April 2005)
- RFC4042
- UTF-9 and UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode (M. Crispin, 1 April 2005)
- RFC4824
- The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) (J. Hofmueller, A. Bachman, IO. zmoelnig, 1 April 2007)
- RFC5241
- Naming Rights in IETF Protocols (A. Falk, S. Bradner, 1 April 2008)
- RFC5242
- A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections (J. Klensin, H. Alvestrand, 1 April 2008)
- RFC5513
- IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms (A. Farrel, 1 April 2009)
- RFC5514
- IPv6 over Social Networks (E. Vyncke, 1 April 2009)
- RFC5841
- TCP Option to Denote Packet Mood (R. Hay, W. Turkal, 1 April 2010)
- RFC5984
- Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding (K-M. Moller, 1 April 2011)
- RFC6214
- Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6 (B. Carpenter, R. Hinden, 1 April 2011)
- RFC6217
- Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer (T. Ritter, 1 April 2011)
- RFC6592
- The Null Packet (C. Pignataro, 1 April 2012)
- RFC6593
- Service Undiscovery Using Hide-and-Go-Seek for the Domain Pseudonym System (DPS) (C. Pignataro, J. Clarke, G. Salgueiro, 1 April 2012)
- RFC6919
- Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels (R. Barnes, S. Kent, E. Rescorla, 1 April 2013)
- RFC6921
- Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light(FTL) Communication (A. Falk, S. Bradner, 1 April 2013)
Poetry
- RFC527
- ARPAWOCKY (R. Merryman, 22 June 1973)
- RFC968
- Twas the Night Before Start-up (V. Cerf, December 1985)
- RFC1121
- Act One — The Poems (J. Postel, L. Kleinrock, V. Cerf and B. Boehm, September 1989)
- RFC1300
- Remembrances of Things Past (S. Greenfield, February 1992)
- RFC1882
- The 12 Days of Technology Before Christmas (B. Hancock, December 1995)
- RFC2100
- The Naming of Hosts (J. Ashworth, 1 April 1997)
Miscellaneous
- RFC602
- The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney with Care (B. Metcalfe, December 1973)
- RFC1439
- The Uniqueness of Unique Identifiers (C. Finseth, March 1993)
- RFC1876
- A Means for Expressing Location Information in the Domain Name System (C. Davis, P. Vixie, T. Goodwin, I. Dickinson, January 1996)
- RFC2410
- The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec (R. Glenn and S. Kent, November 1998)
