The Null Device

European Internet carrier KPNQwest recently called for bids for backbone routers, asking in the request whether vendors supported a number of standards, including RFC2549. Several vendors obviously had no idea what the standards cited were, and said that they would support them all, even RFC2549 -- "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service", a standard for transmitting Internet traffic by carrier pigeons and other birds. Networking giant Cisco said, appropriately, that their equipment would support RFC2549 "only on April 1".

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