Network Working Group S. Christey
Request for Comments: 2795 MonkeySeeDoo, Inc.
Category: Informational 1 April 2000
The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)
Status of this Memo
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not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
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Abstract
This memo describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite
number of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters in
order to determine when they have either produced the entire works of
William Shakespeare or a good television show. The suite includes
communications and control protocols for monkeys and the
organizations that interact with them.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Objects In The Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. IMPS Packet Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Infinite Threshold Accounting Gadget (I-TAG) Encoding . . 5
5. KEEPER Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5.1 KEEPER Message Request Codes (ZOO-to-SIMIAN) . . . . . . 7
5.2 KEEPER Message Response Codes (SIMIAN-to-ZOO) . . . . . 8
5.3 Requirements for KEEPER Request and Response Codes . . . 8
5.4 Example ZOO-to-SIMIAN Exchanges using KEEPER . . . . . . 9
6. CHIMP Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.1 SIMIAN Client Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6.2 ZOO Server Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.3 Example SIMIAN-to-ZOO Session using CHIMP . . . . . . . 11
7. IAMB-PENT SPECIFICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.1 ZOO Client Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.2 BARD Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.3 Example ZOO-to-BARD Session using IAMB-PENT . . . . . . 13
8. PAN Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
8.1 ZOO Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.2 CRITIC Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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