It’s not a joke if it specifies a procedure to solve a real-world problem.
RFC 2549 is a joke, RFC 1149 is almost a joke (basically a spec for a sneakernet, XKCD What If 31 ), RFC 2324 is mostly a joke but also an example of IoT… and a similar thing goes for all of these:
The XKCD one is interesting, but seems to be missing the transfer to/from the storage medium sent by FedEx.
If I want to move data from my computer to yours over the internet, the internet bandwidth between our devices/networks is the main consideration. If I’m FedExing SD cards or HDDs, I’ve also gotta take into account the transfer times to get the data ONTO those devices.
I wonder how the analysis would fair when taking into account:
It’s not a joke if it specifies a procedure to solve a real-world problem.
RFC 2549 is a joke, RFC 1149 is almost a joke (basically a spec for a sneakernet, XKCD What If 31 ), RFC 2324 is mostly a joke but also an example of IoT… and a similar thing goes for all of these:
https://tangentsoft.com/rfcs/humorous.html
Even the ones most intended as a joke, have some grain of usefulness in them.
The XKCD one is interesting, but seems to be missing the transfer to/from the storage medium sent by FedEx.
If I want to move data from my computer to yours over the internet, the internet bandwidth between our devices/networks is the main consideration. If I’m FedExing SD cards or HDDs, I’ve also gotta take into account the transfer times to get the data ONTO those devices.
I wonder how the analysis would fair when taking into account: