This is a list of links to IETF RFCs publishd on April 1st, sourced from the Wikipedia page April Fools' Day Request for Comments. I try to update it annually.
| NUM. | YEAR | TITLE | AUTHOR |
|---|---|---|---|
| RFC 748 | 1978 | TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option | M. Crispin |
| RFC 1097 | 1989 | TELNET SUBLIMINAL-MESSAGE Option | B. Miller |
| RFC 1149 | 1990 | A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers | D. Waitzman |
| RFC 1216 | 1991 | Gigabit Network Economics and Paradigm Shifts | Poorer Richard |
| RFC 1217 | 1991 | Memo from the Consortium for Slow Commotion Research (CSCR) | V.Cerf |
| RFC 1313 | 1992 | Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 — Internet Talk Radio | C. Partridge |
| RFC 1437 | 1993 | The Extension of MIME Content-Types to a New Medium | N. Borenstein |
| RFC 1438 | 1993 | Internet Engineering Task Force Statements Of Boredom (SOBs) | L. Chapin |
| RFC 1605 | 1994 | SONET to Sonnet Translation | W. Shakespeare |
| RFC 1606 | 1994 | A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9 | J. Onions |
| RFC 1607 | 1994 | A VIEW FROM THE 21ST CENTURY | V. Cerf |
| RFC 1776 | 1995 | The Address is the Message | S. Crocker |
| RFC 1924 | 1996 | A Compact Representation of IPv6 Addresses | R. Elz |
| RFC 1925 | 1996 | The Twelve Networking Truths | R. Callon, Editor |
| RFC 1926 | 1996 | An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM | J. Eriksson |
| RFC 1927 | 1996 | Suggested Additional MIME Types for Associating Documents | C.Rogers |
| RFC 2100 | 1997 | The Naming of Hosts | J. Ashworth |
| RFC 2321 | 1998 | RITA — The Reliable Internetwork Troubleshooting Agent | A. Bressen |
| RFC 2322 | 1998 | Management of IP numbers by peg-dhcp | K. van den Hout, A. Koopal, R. van Mook |
| RFC 2323 | 1998 | IETF Identification and Security Guidelines | A. Ramos |
| RFC 2324 | 1998 | Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP\1.0) | L. Masinter |
| RFC 2325 | 1998 | Definitions of Managed Objects for Drip-Type Heated Beverage | M. Slavitch |
| RFC 2549 | 1999 | IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service | D. Waitzman |
| RFC 2550 | 1999 | Y10K and Beyond | S. Glassman, M. Manasse, J. Mogul |
| RFC 2795 | 2000 | The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS) | S. Christey |
| RFC 3091 | 2001 | Pi Digit Generation Protocol | H. Kennedy |
| RFC 3092 | 2001 | Etymology of "Foo" | D. Eastlake 3rd, C. Manros, E. Raymond |
| RFC 3093 | 2001 | Firewall Enhancement Protocol (FEP) | M. Gaynor, S. Bradner |
| RFC 3251 | 2002 | Electricity over IP | B. Rajagopalan |
| RFC 3252 | 2002 | Binary Lexical Octet Ad-hoc Transport | H. Kennedy |
| RFC 3514 | 2003 | The Security Flag in the IPv4 Header | S. Bellovin |
| RFC 3751 | 2004 | Omniscience Protocol Requirements | S. Bradner |
| RFC 4041 | 2005 | Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts | A. Farrel |
| RFC 4042 | 2005 | UTF-9 and UTF-19 — Efficient Transformation Formats of Unicode | M. Crispin |
| RFC 4824 | 2007 | The Transmission of IP Datagrams over the Semaphore Flag Signaling System (SFSS) | J. Hofmueller, A Bachmann, IO. zmoelnig |
| RFC 5241 | 2008 | Naming Rights in IETF Protocols | A Falk, S. Bradner |
| RFC 5242 | 2008 | A Generalized Unified Character Code: Western European and CJK Sections | J. Klensin |
| RFC 5513 | 2009 | IANA Considerations for Three Letter Acronyms | A. Farrel |
| RFC 5514 | 2009 | IPv6 over Social Network | E. Vyncke |
| RFC 5841 | 2010 | TCP Option to Denote Packet Mood | R. Hay, W. Turkal |
| RFC 5984 | 2011 | Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding: ESPBasedForwarding | K-M. Moller |
| RFC 6214 | 2011 | Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6 | B. Carpenter, R. Hinden |
| RFC 6217 | 2011 | Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer | T. Ritter |
| RFC 6592 | 2012 | The Null Packet | C. Pignataro |
| RFC 6593 | 2012 | Service Undiscovery Using Hide-and-Go-Seek for the Domain Pseudonym System (DPS) | C. Pignataro, J. Clarke, G. Salgueiro |
| RFC 6919 | 2013 | Further Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels | R. Barnes, S. Kent, E. Rescorla |
| RFC 6921 | 2013 | Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication | R. Hinden |
| RFC 7168 | 2014 | The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA) | I. Nazar |
| RFC 7169 | 2014 | The NSA (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension | S. Turner |
| RFC 7511 | 2015 | Scenic Routing for IPv6 | M. Wilhelm |
| RFC 7514 | 2015 | Really Explicit Congestion Notification (RECN) | M. Luckie |
| RFC 8135 | 2017 | Complex Addressing in IPv6 | M. Danielson, M. Nilsson |
| RFC 8136 | 2017 | Additional Transition Functionality for IPv6 | B. Carpenter,R. Hinden |
| RFC 8140 | 2017 | The Arte of ASCII: Or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Farrel and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character | A. Farrel |
| RFC 8367 | 2018 | Wrongful Termination of Internet Protocol (IP) Packets | T. Mizrahi, J. Yallouz |
| RFC 8369 | 2018 | Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode | H. Kaplan |
| RFC 8565 | 2019 | Hypertext Jeopardy Protocol (HTJP/1.0) | E. Fokschaner |
| RFC 8567 | 2019 | Customer Management DNS Request Records | E. Rye, R. Beverly |
| RFC 8771 | 2020 | The Internationalized Deliberately Unreadable Network NOtation (I-DUNNO) | A. Mayrhofer, J. Hague |
| RFC 8774 | 2020 | The Quantum Bug | M. Welzl |
| RFC 8962 | 2021 | Establishing the Protocol Police | G. Grover, N. ten Oever, C. Cath, S. Sahib |
| RFC 9225 | 2022 | Software Defects Considered Harmful | J. Snijders, C. Morrow, R. van Mook |
| RFC 9226 | 2022 | Bioctal: Hexadecimal 2.0 | M. Breen |
| RFC 9401 | 2023 | The Addition of the Death (DTH) Flag to TCP | S. Toyosawa |
| RFC 9402 | 2023 | Concat Notation | M. Basaglia, J. Bernards, J. Maas |
| RFC 9405 | 2023 | AI Sarcasm Detection: Insult Your AI without Offending It | C. GPT (edited by R. L. Barnes) |
| RFC 9564 | 2024 | Faster Than Light Speed Protocol (FLIP) | M. Blanchet |
Updated with 3 2023 RFCs, then later fixed the link to one of them 9405 linked to the 9402 document)