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[-] Kudusch@startrek.website 16 points 10 months ago

There is an actual RFC for "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service" that was released on April fools day 1999.

There are some fantastic diagrams in there:

[-] Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

That was actually a followup to the 1990 April Fools RFC classic A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers .

The most recent installment in the official IPoAC series was 2011's Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6.

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