Series · 5 posters · 1990 to 2011

The April Fools’ RFCs

Five Requests for Comments published on the first of April between 1990 and 2011: IP datagrams carried by birds, with quality of service and then over IPv6, a protocol for coffee pots, and one for infinite monkeys at typewriters.

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The wall planner draws the series to scale in your browser: this needs JavaScript. The posters and their PDFs are listed below.

The posters

Each poster in its first theme; its page has the others, and a wallpaper.

  1. 1 · Internet & networking

    RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

    David Waitzman, 1990

    Print from A3

  2. 2 · Internet & networking

    RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)

    Larry Masinter, 1998

    Print from A2

  3. 3 · Internet & networking

    RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

    David Waitzman, 1999

    Print from A3

  4. 4 · Internet & networking

    RFC 2795: The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

    S. Christey, 2000

    Print from A1

  5. 5 · Internet & networking

    RFC 6214: Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6

    Brian Carpenter, Robert M. Hinden, 2011

    Print from A3

US formats

Letter, Tabloid, 18 × 24 and 24 × 36 in are not in the repository but in the latest release, in one zip per category, with every theme:

  • Internet & networking, US formats internet-us.zip · RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers, RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0), RFC 2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service, RFC 2795: The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS), RFC 6214: Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6

The A, 50 × 70 and 60 × 80 cm PDFs of these posters, in every theme, are also in the latest release, in one zip per category: Internet & networking.

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