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The award for the best April Fools joke this year goes to Hugh Kennedy for RFC 3252: Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport (BLOAT).

This document defines a reformulation of IP and two transport layer protocols (TCP and UDP) as XML applications.

… The following is an example IPoXML datagram with an empty payload:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE ip PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD BLOAT 1.0 IP//EN"
  "bloat.dtd">
<ip>
<header length="474">
<version value="4"/>
<tos precedence="Routine" delay="Normal"
  throughput="Normal"
  relibility="Normal" reserved="0"/>
<total.length value="461"/>
<id value="1"/>
<flags reserved="0" df="dont" mf="last"/>
<offset value="0"/>
<ttl value="255"/>
<protocol value="6"/>
<checksum value="8707"/>
<source address="10.0.0.22"/>
<destination address="10.0.0.1"/>
<options>
<end copied="0" class="0" number="0"/>
</options>
<padding pad="0"/>
</header>
<payload>
</payload>
</ip>

Classic.

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