April Fools' Day Request For Comments
Almost every April Fools' Day (1 April) since 1989, the Internet Engineering Task Force has published one or more humorous Request for Comments (RFC) documents, following in the path blazed by the June 1973 RFC 527 called ARPAWOCKY, a parody of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". The following list also includes humorous RFCs published on other dates.
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