Carrier Pigeons to become officially part of the Internet

Phantasm66 · Dec 13, 2003

See this;

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2549.txt

The following quality of service levels are available: Concorde,
First, Business, and Coach. Concorde class offers expedited data
delivery. One major benefit to using Avian Carriers is that this is
the only networking technology that earns frequent flyer miles, plus
the Concorde and First classes of service earn 50% bonus miles per
packet. Ostriches are an alternate carrier that have much greater
bulk transfer capability but provide slower delivery, and require the
use of bridges between domains.

The service level is indicated on a per-carrier basis by bar-code
markings on the wing. One implementation strategy is for a bar-code
reader to scan each carrier as it enters the router and then enqueue
it in the proper queue, gated to prevent exit until the proper time.
The carriers may sleep while enqueued.

For secure networks, carriers may have classes Prime or Choice.
Prime carriers are self-keying when using public key encryption.
Some distributors have been known to falsely classify Choice carriers
as Prime.

Pigeons and Google: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

Pigeons faster than the internet:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,2756987a6004,00.html

MrGaribaldi · Dec 13, 2003

LoL...

But then again, the pigeon protocol is several years old allready... I seem to recall it being implemented first around 97 or 99...

Though this is the first time I've heard about anyone offering it as a service...

MYOB · Dec 14, 2003

It was RFC'ed in about 1991.... its an OLD protocol...

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