The Internet transmitted by ... carrier pigeon?

Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu> wrote: You may be particularly interested in the followup work of RFC 2549. A (possibly incomplete) list of related RFCs follows... now excuse me while I attend to my HTCPCP server. RFC0748: TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option RFC1097: TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option RFC1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers RFC1217: Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) RFC1313: Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio RFC1437: The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium RFC1438: Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs) RFC1605: SONET to Sonnet Translation RFC1606: A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9 RFC1607: A View from the 21st Century RFC1639: FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (FOOBAR) RFC1776: The Address is the Message RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths RFC1926: An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM RFC1927: Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents RFC2100: The Naming of Hosts RFC2321: RITA: The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent RFC2322: Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp RFC2323: IETF Identification and Security Guidelines RFC2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) RFC2325: Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage Hardware RFC2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service RFC2550: Y10K and Beyond RFC2551: The Roman Standards Process -- Revision III RFC2795: The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) RFC3091: Pi Digit Generation Protocol RFC3092: Etymology of "Foo" RFC3093: Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) RFC3251: Electricity over IP RFC3252: Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport