> Not having seen an RFC come over the transom yesterday or today,
> here is an alternative.
> http://216.218.205.86/april1.asp
Are you sure?
1 April Special
* RFC 3091 on Pi Digit Generation Protocol
* RFC 3092 on Etymology of "Foo"
* RFC 3093 on Firewall Enhancement Protocol
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* RFC 3091 on Pi Digit Generation Protocol
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3091.html
This protocol is intended to provide the Pi digit generation service
(PIgen), and be used between clients and servers on host computers.
Typically the clients are on workstation hosts lacking local Pi
support, and the servers are more capable machines with greater Pi
calculation capabilities. The essential tradeoff is the use of
network resources and time instead of local computational cycles.
* RFC 3092 on Etymology of "Foo"
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3092.html
Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the
terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as metasyntactic variables without
any proper explanation or definition. This document rectifies that
deficiency.
* RFC 3093 on Firewall Enhancement Protocol
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3093.html
Internet Transparency via the end-to-end architecture of the Internet
has allowed vast innovation of new technologies and services [1].
However, recent developments in Firewall technology have altered this
model and have been shown to inhibit innovation. We propose the
Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) to allow innovation, without
violating the security model of a Firewall. With no cooperation from
a firewall operator, the FEP allows ANY application to traverse a
Firewall. Our methodology is to layer any application layer
Transmission Control Protocol/User Datagram Protocol (TCP/UDP) packets
over the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol, since HTTP
packets are typically able to transit Firewalls. This scheme does not
violate the actual security usefulness of a Firewall, since Firewalls
are designed to thwart attacks from the outside and to ignore threats
from within. The use of FEP is compatible with the current Firewall
security model because it requires cooperation from a host inside the
Firewall. FEP allows the best of both worlds: the security of a
firewall, and transparent tunneling thought the firewall.
regards,
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Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org
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