note: ID in this context stands for Internet-Draft.
> All too often one reads something in the press, or some ravings on a
mailing list that reference some Internet Draft, that claim that "the
IETF thinks that XXX" or that the ID is an IETF document, and so
represents support by the IETF.
...
> So, here is an Internet Draft. I wrote it. It's full of nonsense.
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Do read this, it's a really fun read :D
The "Background" section starts as follows:
> Pyramids are good for sharpening razor blades. The ancient Egyptians
had a major problem - wearing a big, bushy beard in the desert is
uncomfortable. Unfortunately the safely razor hadn't been invented
yet, and so they all had to use straight razors. Additionally, camel
leather makes a very poor strop, hippopotamus leather was reserved
for the pharaohs and crocodile leather, while suitable, had the
unfortunate property of being wrapped around crocodiles.
Let's upgrade this to an IETF standard. Who writes the 2 different implementations of the protocol?
Come to think of it, sending the ID string to TCP port 7 on compliant devices will return the ID string back, demonstrating successful exchange of ID strings. So there already are multiple different implementations.
>Who writes the 2 different implementations of the protocol?
You mean the "routing protocol" or the "routing protocol" pronounced with a funny accent?
>In order to clearly differentiate these terms we assign the
ordinal 98 to be "routing protocols" and 0x62 to be "routing
protocols" (but pronounced with a funny accent). Protocols incapable
of encoding 0x62 should use the string "My hovercraft is full of
eels", a suitable translation of this phrase, or the ordinal 1.
> All too often one reads something in the press, or some ravings on a mailing list that reference some Internet Draft, that claim that "the IETF thinks that XXX" or that the ID is an IETF document, and so represents support by the IETF.
...
> So, here is an Internet Draft. I wrote it. It's full of nonsense.
---
Do read this, it's a really fun read :D
The "Background" section starts as follows:
> Pyramids are good for sharpening razor blades. The ancient Egyptians had a major problem - wearing a big, bushy beard in the desert is uncomfortable. Unfortunately the safely razor hadn't been invented yet, and so they all had to use straight razors. Additionally, camel leather makes a very poor strop, hippopotamus leather was reserved for the pharaohs and crocodile leather, while suitable, had the unfortunate property of being wrapped around crocodiles.