[TAG] Design of a Protocol Monkey

[Ben Okopnik]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 10:09:57AM -0800, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Martin J Hooper wrote:
> > Amit Kumar Saha wrote:
> > > What exactly does RFC 2975 (The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
> > > mean? Any simple *plain text* explanation?
> > 
> > No idea but is it along the same lines as the RFC for TCP/IP over avian 
> > carriers is it?
> 
> Good one. 
> 
> Regarding the original query. I don't think RFC 2975 is about
> monkeys or flying monkeys even in Oz.
> 
> Perhaps what is meant by a protocol monkey is an algorithm that has a
> way of intervening in a network protocol without the two endpoints
> noticing. The reference is to the Panchatantra story about the monkey
> and the two cats.
> 
> That's enough animal references for now.

Oh, *what* a tease! :)

Kapil, I've looked around on the Web, and the best I could find was
'http://www.panchatantra.chourishi.in/' - and even there, no mention of
a monkey and two cats. Would you happen to have a better pointer?

Incidentally, the Panchatantra stories reminded me very strongly of the
tales of Krylov (who had clearly cribbed his plots from Aesop, but
wrapped them in beautiful, poetic Russian.)

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/krylov.htm


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