Reminds me of a friend that was on a standards commmittee. The committee generated a time requirement for some kind of satellite signal to be sent, and the requirement meant that light speed would be broken.
In response, my friend wrote a related journal article--which got published--that described a faster-then-light detector. At the end of the article he said that they should build one and wait for him to send the plans for the faster-than-light transmitter, which he would send from the future.
No one ever raised an issue about the article.
-TD
From: Morlock Elloi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cooperative evil bit Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 23:30:10 -0800 (PST)
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3514.txt
excerpt:
1. Introduction
Firewalls [CBR03], packet filters, intrusion detection systems, and the like often have difficulty distinguishing between packets that have malicious intent and those that are merely unusual. The problem is that making such determinations is hard. To solve this problem, we define a security flag, known as the "evil" bit, in the IPv4 [RFC791] header. Benign packets have this bit set to 0; those that are used for an attack will have the bit set to 1.
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