RFC snark

There's something of a tradition of joke internet RFCs (the standards that bind the internet together).

One of this year's, though, is magnificent:

RFC 4041: Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts

If the Morality Considerations section is present, it MUST contain at least the following subsections. The content of these subsections is surely self-evident to any right-thinking person. Further guidance can be obtained from your moral guardian, your household gods, or from any member of the IMM (Internet Moral Majority).

- Likelihood of misuse by depraved or sick individuals. This subsection must fully address the possibility that the proposed protocols or protocol extensions might be used for the distribution of blue, smutty, or plain disgusting images.

- Likelihood of misuse by misguided individuals. There is an obvious need to protect minors and people with misguided thought processes from utilising the protocols or protocol extensions for purposes that would inevitably do them harm.

- Likelihood of misuse by large, multi-national corporations. Such a thought is, of course, unthinkable.

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3.4. Promiscuity

Various disgusting protocols indulge in promiscuity. This appears to happen most often when an operator is unwilling to select a single partner and wants to play the field.

Promiscuous modes of operation are an abomination, exceeded only by multicast.