RFC 2795 – IMPS
June 10th, 2009 at 19:32 by Eseell in Networking and Too Much Time On My Hands and w3rk
I’m at a class for BGP routing this week (yes, you can fill a 50-hour week with just BGP information) and one of the other students happened to mention an RFC I was unfamiliar with. “Request for Comments: 2795″ describes The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS).
Abstract
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.
ETA: There’s a list of more hilarious RFCs here.