Evil bit now official?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

RFC 3514 (http://rfc.dotsrc.org/rfc/rfc3514.html and other places) is one of the 
"April Fools" RFCs.  It takes one of the unused bits in the IPv4 header and 
suggests that it be used as an "evil" flag, so that we can know which packets to 
drop at firewalls.

A few days ago I was looking at some vendor material and noticed that the "evil 
bit" was identified in the IP header ...


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rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and
a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.
                                                      - RFC 1925 #11
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm 
http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
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