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I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Two9A@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we.

Almost ten years ago now, I wrote RFC 7168, "Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances" which extends HTCPCP to handle tea brewing. Both Coffeepot Control Protocol and the tea-brewing extension are joke Internet Standards, and were released on Apr 1st (1998 and 2014). You may be familiar with HTTP error 418, "I'm a teapot"; this comes from the 1998 standard.

I'm giving a talk on the history of HTTP and HTCPCP at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin later this month, and I need an FAQ section; AMA about the Internet and HTTP. Let's try this out!

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[–] sirnak@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you author any other standards and how high is the chance of a proposal being approved if you don't have any accepted proposal yet?

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[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SYN

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

RST

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am interested in writing a real RFC, what kind of mailing list etc should I join in order to make my RFC real?

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[–] where_am_i@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do I know the government isn't spying on me, cuz they could totally go and compromise all root certificates, thus RIP https.

Oh, and pardon, who the heck does still use http without the s?

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Well, they could. They could also set up listening posts on every transcontinental pipe as they reach land.

What's that, they did?

[–] stardust@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What are some of your favorite accounts to follow on mastodon?

Also, will your talk be recorded?

[–] Two9A@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

My following list; of note is Lisa Melton, whose bio says "Follow me and I'll fill your timeline with boosts". She ain't lying.

Looks like some of the talks from last year were released on the conference's YouTube, so: hard to say if the recording will be available. I'll (see if I can) remember to ask on the day.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I just found out about this on Brodie Robertson’s yt channel! I am not a teapot btw!!

[–] mmagod@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

I can't say enough how amazing your explanation was. Im not a programmer but I have worked on websites (self taught) and I never knew this. Thank you!

[–] martini1992@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It'd be fantastic to get some drink brewing hardware together that actually supports this standard, that'd be the real icing on the cake. Are you aware of any people putting something together?

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