[ehsanul]

RFC439, posted by the co-creator of TCP/IP, Vint Cerf, actually has a similar exchange between "PARRY" and the "Doctor" from 1972(!): http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439

It somehow got no attention though, when I posted it to HN a long time back. The title matters a bit too much, I remember keeping the original title for my post.

[ehsanul]

On a related note, I love how some early RFCs are written in a pretty whimsical manner. Perhaps it's just Vint Cerf who likes messing around? For instance, see RFC968, 'Twas the Night Before Start-up': http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc968.html