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djberg96
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Thursday January 23, 2003

11:44 AM

[ #10144 ]

RFC 2550 is but one example of why I roll my eyes when people try to back up a particular standard with an RFC reference - any fool can write one.

It's amusing if nothing else. :)

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Other examples (Score:2)

by rafael (2125)

Somebody you know collected some [cmu.edu]...
check the release date (Score:2)

by merlyn (47)
there's a longstanding tradition of releasing silly RFCs on the first of April each year.
--
- Randal L. Schwartz
- Stonehenge
- Re:check the release date (Score:2)
  
  by djberg96 (2603)
  
  D'oh!
- Re:check the release date (Score:1)
  
  by cbrooks (3267)
  
  My favorite line from the RFC:
  
  However, a simple extrapolation of Moore's law shows that even femto-second resolution will soon be inadequate.... And, by the year 10,000 the projected clock speed of the Intel Pentium MMDCLXVI (TM) will be approximately 10 ** (- 1609) seconds.