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RFC 527 — ARPAWOCKY. R. Merryman, UCSD . 22 June 1973 . A Lewis Carroll Pastiche .

RFC 748 — TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE option. M.R. Crispin. 1 April 1978 . A parody of the TCP/IP documentation style.

RFC 968 — Twas the night before start-up. V.G. Cerf, 1 December 1985 .

RFC 1097 — TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE option. B. Miller. 1 April 1989 .

RFC 1149 — Standard for the transmission of IP Datagrams On Avian Carriers . D. Waitzman. 1 April 1990 . Updated by RFC 2549; see below. A deadpan skewering of standards-document Legalese , describing protocols for transmitting Internet data packets by Carrier Pigeon .

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RFC 1216 — Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts. Poorer Richard, Prof. Kynikos. 1 April 1991 .

RFC 1217 — Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR). Vint Cerf . 1 April 1991 .

RFC 1313 — Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio. C. Partridge. while flying on the Concorde is no longer a problem.

RFC 1437 — The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium. N. Borenstein, M. Linimon. 1 April 1993 .

RFC 1438 — Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs). A. Lyman Chapin, C. Huitema. 1 April 1993 .

RFC 1605 — SONET to Sonnet Translation. William Shakespeare . 1 April 1994 .

RFC 1606 — A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9. J. Onions. 1 April 1994 .

RFC 1607 — A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY. Vint Cerf . 1 April 1994 .

RFC 1776 — The Address is the Message. Steve Crocker . 1 April 1995 . Without content, would we need Information Security ?

RFC 1924 — A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses. R. Elz. 1 April 1996 .

RFC 1925 — The Twelve Networking Truths. R. Callon. 1 April 1996 .

RFC 1926 — An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM. J. Eriksson. 1 April 1996 .

RFC 1927 — Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents. C. Rogers. 1 April 1996 .

RFC 2100 — The Naming of Hosts. . 1 April 1997 .

RFC 2321 — RITA -- The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent. A. Bressen. 1 April 1998 .

RFC 2322 — Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp. K. van den Hout et al. 1 April 1998 .

RFC 2323 — IETF Identification and Security Guidelines. A. Ramos. 1 April 1998 .

RFC 2324 — Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0). L. Masinter. 1 April 1998 .

RFC 2325 — Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware Devices using SMIv2. M. Slavitch. 1 April 1998 .

RFC 2549 — IP Over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service. D. Waitzman. 1 April 1999 . Updates RFC 1149, listed above.

RFC 2550 — Y10K and Beyond. S. Glassman, M. Manasse, J. Mogul. 1 April 1999 .

RFC 2551 — The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III. S. Bradner. 1 April 1999 .

RFC 2795 — The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS). S. Christey. 1 April 2000 .

RFC 3091 — Pi Digit Generation Protocol. H. Kennedy. 1 April 2001 .

RFC 3092 — Etymology of "Foo". D. Eastlake 3rd, C. Manros, E. Raymond . 1 April 2001 .

RFC 3093 — Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP). M. Gaynor, S. Bradner. 1 April 2001 .

RFC 3251 — Electricity over IP. B. Rajagopalan. 1 April 2002 .

RFC 3252 — ''B''inary ''L''exical ''O''ctet ''A''d-hoc ''T''ransport. H. Kennedy. 1 April 2002 .

RFC 3514 — The Security Flag In The IPv4 Header (Evil Bit) . S. Bellovin . 1 April 2003 .

RFC 3751 — Omniscience Protocol Requirements. S. Bradner 1 April 2004 .

RFC 4041 — Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts. A. Farrel. 1 April 2005 .

RFC 4042 — UTF-9 And UTF-18 Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode. M. Crispin. 1 April 2005 .

''No April 1st RFCs in 2006 '', the first time since 1989 ; however, see an announcement on the IETF list about the appointment of Bert[http://bert.secret-wg.org as member of the IAB for what appears to be this year's April Fools' stunt

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CIO Magazine commentary on RFC 3751 and 1 April RFCs in general