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![Internet, Traffic, and Birds: ...0,2kB/s l
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In computer networking, IP over Avian Carriers
(IPOAC) is a proposal to carry Internet Protocol
(IP) traffic by birds such as homing pigeons. IP
over Avian Carriers was initially described in RFC
1149 , a Request for Comments (RFC) issued by
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), written
by D. Waitzman, and released on April 1, 1990. It is
one of several April Fools' Day Request for
Comments.
Waitzman described an improvement of his
protocol in RFC 2549 , IP over Avian Carriers with
Quality of Service (1 April 1999). Later, in RFC
6214-released on 1 April 2011, and 13 years
after the introduction of IPV6-Brian Carpenter and
Robert Hinden published Adaptation of RFC 1149
for IPv6.1]
IPOAC has been successfully implemented, but for
only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio
of 55% (due to operator error),4 and a response
time ranging from 3,000 seconds (54 minutes) to
over 6,000 seconds (1.77 hours). Thus, this
technology suffers from poor latency.
Nevertheless, for large transfers, avian carriers are
capable of high average throughput when carrying
flash memory devices, effectively implementing a
sneakernet. During the last 20 years, the
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