[HN Gopher] RFC8962: Establishing the Protocol Police
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       RFC8962: Establishing the Protocol Police
        
       Author : virgulino
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-04-01 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | virgulino wrote:
       | "This document formally establishes the Protocol Police. It
       | defines the body and sets out what aspects of IETF protocols they
       | will police."
       | 
       | "In the beginning was the RFC, and the network was with the RFC,
       | and the RFC was with the network. Through the RFC all things were
       | made; without the RFC nothing was made that has been made. In the
       | network was life, and that life was the light of all the
       | INTERNET. Thou shalt not deviate from the path set out in the
       | RFCs or else thou shall be scattered over the data plane."
       | 
       | "Using powerful machine-learning mechanisms for threat analysis,
       | the Protocol Police will identify networks that are likely to
       | fail to comply with this requirement. This process is known as
       | Heuristic Internet Policing (HIP). Networks identified in this
       | way will be disciplined by the Protocol Police with TCP RSTs. Let
       | it be known: the Protocol Police always shoot from the HIP."
       | 
       | "Before the Protocol Police, there was no security. The Police
       | have arrived. All your networks are belong to us."
        
       | mssundaram wrote:
       | I hate April Fool's Day
        
       | sneak wrote:
       | Perhaps someone should deploy the UN committee on hard line
       | wrapping to the site this document was authored to investigate
       | possible crimes against humanity.
        
         | virgulino wrote:
         | "12. Human Rights Considerations                  There are
         | none for you to worry about.  The Police will see to it."
         | 
         | In any case, they have a UN/ISO compliant version:
         | 
         | https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8962.xml
        
       | _wldu wrote:
       | I can hear someone yelling, "No packets for you!"
        
       | flemhans wrote:
       | OpenAI GPT-3 has this to say:
       | 
       | 3.2. Recruitment
       | 
       | The Protocol Police shall be recruited from the IETF community,
       | and shall preferably be selected from the IETF's Standards Area
       | Directors (SAADs), as defined in [RFC5543].
       | 
       | 5.3. Disobeying RFCs
       | 
       | A Protocol Police officer, when faced with a violation of a
       | protocol specification, is required to issue a citation, as laid
       | out in Section 7.1.
        
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