I love those RFC documents. I am currently working with CCSDS documents and they are total trash comparing to RFC. For example when I read documents about how TCP works or TLS works I see that it has been written by professionals with experience and vision. And CCSDS documents have been written by bureaucrats who have never written a line of code in their lives.

Now. I didn't know about the RFC. This is so good. I hope we can continue to advance this field with good humor, and good coffee.

There are quite some RFC with humor, most prominently probably RFC1149 and its extension RFC2549

IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

It's even been updated[1] for IPv6, so no reason not to use it!

[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6214

For anyone who wants to explore further, Wikipedia has a list page for these RFCs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...

There are a lot more of them than I had realized before finding that. Some years even had multiple.