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".