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Many of you, who follow the Internet Engineering Task Force’s Request For Comment listings, would be aware that, almost every year, they put out a joke RFC as a bit of April Fools humour.

Examples of this include…

• RFC1149 IP over Carrier Pidgeon, which actually got implemented by a Linux User Group in Norway.
• RFC2324 Hyper-Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

Discussion has erupted on the Atomic MPC forums about RFC2549: IP over Avian Carriers with QoS and other quirky methods for transmitting IP datagrams, such as EmuNet (a high-speed bulk land protocol), KangNet and CTP (Casowary Transport Protocol, for sensitive data). Ohh… And WomTun, for tunneling past those irritating barbed-wire and electrified firewalls.

The 2006.0 stage 3 has been pushed out to the mirrors. You can get it from
your local Gentoo
mirror in the
experimental/mips/stages/cobalt/2006.0 directory.

Not all mirrors have the files yet (they were only pushed out last night), but they should appear soon — probably in the next day or two.

As always… any bugs, issues… let me know.