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IP: Pigeon-powered Internet takes flight
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 17:26:07 -0500
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:24:30 -0800 To: jwarren () well com, farber () cis upenn edu, declan () well com From: Ron Avitzur <avitzur () pacifict com> Subject: Pigeon-powered Internet takes flight Pigeon-powered Internet takes flight http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5825807.htmlOne of the Internet's most obscure technologies came to life last weekend: transmitting network information by carrier pigeon. In 1990, David Waitzman wrote RFC 1149, a tongue-in-cheek standard for using pigeons to transfer information using the Internet Protocol (IP). On Saturday, a group of Linux enthusiasts in Bergen, Norway, succeeded in exchanging some data using the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol (CPIP).
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