Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio
A lighthearted programming schedule for an imaginary Internet-based radio station.
Partridge, C., "Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio", RFC 1313, DOI 10.17487/RFC1313, April 1992, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1313>.
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Contents
Network Working Group C. Partridge
Request for Comments: 1313 BBN
1 April 1992
Today's Programming for KRFC AM 1313
Internet Talk Radio
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is
unlimited.
Welcome!
Hi and welcome to KRFC Internet Talk Radio, your place on the AM dial
for lively talk and just-breaking news on internetworking. Sponsored
by the Internet Society, KRFC serves the San Francisco Bay Area. For
those of you outside the Bay Area, copies of program transcripts can
be anonymously FTPed from archives.krfc.com the day after the
program, or you can listen in via vat.
Here's today's programming for today, Wednesday, 1 April 1992.
Hacker's Hour with Phil Karn (Midnight)
Phil's special guest today is Dr. David Mills, who will explain the
special problems of correcting for the Doppler effect when trying to
properly synchronize the new WWV receiver chip in your PC while
flying on the Concorde.
Nighttime News (1AM)
Award winning Nighttime News gives you a full hour on those key facts
you need to know before going to bed. Be sure to catch our network
outage report with Elise Gerich. (Elise's report is sponsored by
ANS).
Late At Night With Ole (2 AM)
Call in your favorite Internetwork questions to Ole Jacobsen and his
guests. Tonite's featured guests are John Moy, prime author of OSPF,
and Milo Medin who will talk about how OSPF is great, but you really
need to test it on 1822 networks to understand why.
Marty in the Morning (6 AM)
Join the irrepressable Marty for five hours of eye-opening talk and
commentary. Hear the latest on the commercial state of data
networking in the US and who is at fault for limiting its growth.
Special guest Kent England plans to drop by the studio today --
listen in for the flames!
Education Report (11 AM)
Gordon Cook solicits advice from Prof. David Farber on good ways to
develop a research career. (In the likely event that Prof. Farber is
unavailable at the last minute, Prof. Farber has arranged for Prof.
David Sincoskie to take his place).
Lunch with Lynch (11:30 AM)
Dan Lynch is on vacation this week and Vint Cerf is taking his place.
Today Vint has lunch with Mitch Kapor of the EFF, MacArthur genius
Richard Stallman, and Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf. Don't miss Vint's
suggestions for wines to go with today's business lunch! [Lunch with
Lynch is sponsored by Interop. Wines are provided by the vineyards in
return for promotional considerations].
News (1 PM)
Join Joyce and Jon as they report on the key networking news of the
day. Don't miss their update on the latest address and port
assignments and tips on upcoming RFCs!
Two by Four Time (2 PM)
Today Marshall Rose will take out his two-by-four and apply it to
Phill Gross for violating the Internet Standard Meeting Rules at the
last IETF and starting a session before 9 AM. Additional victims to
be announced. Today's show will be available as a book from Prentice
Hall by next Tuesday.
Mike at the Mike (4 PM)
Listen in to the Marina's favorite local DJ. Hear why They never
listen and Never will! How come The Book's publishers don't seem to
be able to add and why ATM is Another Technical Mistake. Then join
MAP at 7:45 for a wee bit of this week's preferred single malt.
The Protocol Police (8 PM)
Liven up your evening with the protocol police. Join our intrepid
team of Stev Knowles and Mike St. Johns as they debug various TCP/IP
implementations from the comfort of Mike's hot tub using Stev's
water-proof portable PC. Last week they caught Peter Honeyman
hijacking an NFS implementation. This week they're joined by Yakov
Rehkter with his new Roto-Router tool, designed to catch routing
anomalies. Who will our team nab this week?
Family Hour (10 PM)
As part of this week's special series on children and networking, Bob
Morris and Jerry Estrin talk about how much you should teach your
young children about networking.
Securely Speaking (11 PM)
Come eavesdrop as Steve Kent and Steve Crocker give you this week's
latest security news (if they're allowed to talk about it). And
remember, just after 11 o'clock Steve and Steve will be reading this
week's encrypted message. If you're the first caller to call in with
the right DES key to decrypt the message, you'll win $1,000 and an
all expenses paid trip to Ft. Meade! (US nationals only please).
Security Considerations
Security issues are discussed in the above section.
Author's Address
Craig Partridge
BBN
824 Kipling St
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Phone: 415-325-4541
EMail: craig@aland.bbn.com
AI ELI5
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§1KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio
This is an April 1st joke document. The memo presents itself as a program guide for KRFC AM 1313 Internet Talk Radio, a fictional radio station broadcast over the Internet serving the San Francisco Bay Area and available via FTP and the vat audio tool.
The RFC is written in the voice of a radio announcer and lists a fictional programming schedule for Wednesday, April 1, 1992, complete with guest appearances by real networking researchers and engineers.
This is a joke pretending there is an Internet radio station with funny shows about networking.
§2Sample Programming Highlights
The schedule features shows with names like Hacker's Hour, Nighttime News, Late At Night With Ole, and The Protocol Police. Each description humorously touches on real Internet topics: David Mills and the Doppler effect, OSPF routing protocol testing, ATM networks, NFS implementations, and DES encryption.
Other shows include Lunch with Lynch (with Vint Cerf substituting for the vacationing Dan Lynch) and Two by Four Time (where Marshall Rose "takes out his two-by-four" to correct protocol violations at IETF meetings). The final show, Securely Speaking, jokingly offers listeners a chance to win money and a trip to Ft. Meade for decrypting a DES message.
Fake shows make jokes about real Internet things, like routing protocols, encryption, and what engineers argue about.
§3The Humor and the Community
The memo gently satirizes IETF meetings, Internet personalities, and common networking debates (such as whether ATM is "Another Technical Mistake"). It references real people in networking roles and real protocols, but presents them in absurd situations: debugging TCP/IP from a hot tub, security experts reading encrypted messages on the radio, and discussions about children learning networking.
The RFC demonstrates the playfulness and self-awareness of the Internet engineering community, showing that even while managing critical infrastructure, engineers could laugh at themselves and their work.
It is a friendly joke that makes fun of networking experts and their arguments, written by people who actually work with those experts.