A Piece of Internet History Goes Up for Auction: A Packet Transmitted by RFC 1149 "Avian Carrier"
David Waitzman and the Bergen Linux User Group are auctioning a piece of networking history: a physical packet transmitted using Waitzman's RFC 1149 — "Standard for the Transmission of IP [Internet Protocol] Datagrams on Avian Carriers," otherwise known as IP over pigeon.
"Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low altitude service," Waitzman wrote in his original Request For Comments document, published in 1990. "The IP datagram is printed, on a small scroll of paper, in hexadecimal, with each octet separated by whitestuff and blackstuff. The scroll of paper is wrapped around one leg of the avian carrier. A band of duct tape is used to secure the datagram's edges. The bandwidth is limited to the leg length. The MTU [Message Transfer Unit] is variable, and paradoxically, generally increases with increased carrier age. A typical MTU is 256 milligrams. Some datagram padding may be needed."
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