I'm the author of an April Fool's Internet Standard, AMA

3 years ago by Two9A to c/asklemmy

Let's get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we.

Almost ten years ago now, I wrote RFC 7168, "Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances" which extends HTCPCP to handle tea brewing. Both Coffeepot Control Protocol and the tea-brewing extension are joke Internet Standards, and were released on Apr 1st (1998 and 2014). You may be familiar with HTTP error 418, "I'm a teapot"; this comes from the 1998 standard.

I'm giving a talk on the history of HTTP and HTCPCP at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin later this month, and I need an FAQ section; AMA about the Internet and HTTP. Let's try this out!

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hughperman 12 points 3 years ago

What would be a current version of this April Fool - what technology would you create a standard for, what beverage would you interface it to?

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Two9A 15 points 3 years ago

The motivation for HTCPCP-TEA was that HTCPCP didn't cover tea brewing. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any infused hot drinks that aren't coffee or a tea of some kind...

Perhaps we need a homebrew beer request standard. The response lag would be tremendous though.

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PlasmaK 10 points 3 years ago

cocoa?

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