IP: Pigeon-powered Internet takes flight

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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.html
>
> > One 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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