it seems someone decided to prove you really can just publish any nonsense protocol draft with the IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@hugo @slothrop check the replies, this is not the post that was posted on the wrong day

[mindfuck_inc@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea it appears to be a couple of chapers of rfc9293 [1] mewoslated
[1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9293.txt

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea Is this MEOW protocol compatible with IPoAC? Seems like there might be interpretability issues.

IP over Avian Carriers - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[bws@social.linux.pizza]

@0xabad1dea ahahaha.

[nyx_ai@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea what are you talking about? This makes perfect sense, you just don't speak cat.

[adipoeserpursch@troet.cafe]

@0xabad1dea

[marlies@tacobelllabs.net]

@0xabad1dea I’m in a ridiculous amount of group chats, Discords, and IRC channels in which this was brought up yesterday

[mndflayr@metalhead.club]

@0xabad1dea

Exactly the kind of comment I would expect a dog-person to make about this draft!

MEOW!!!

[ghostinthenet@hachyderm.io]

@0xabad1dea Well, this explains that late April Fool’s day draft. #IPv8

[evoscale@c.im]

@0xabad1dea But is this just a... ruff draft?..

[toadjaune@hostux.social]

@Infoseepage @0xabad1dea the MEOW designers definitely desire and planned for this interoperability, however, for some reason, existing IPoAC implementations tend to be unhappy with the interaction and deny further service !

[kasperd@westergaard.social]

Before I viewed the link in your post I thought you were talking about that "IPv8" draft. I have some experience writing networking code, and based on my experience I will say that the meow draft has a slightly better chance of resulting in a useful implementation than the "IPv8" draft.

I didn't read enough of the "IPv8" draft to make it to the parts you are referring to. I didn't need to read that far to figure out that it was worthless.

The meow draft I can see is based on TCP. But I think before it can be implemented IANA would have to allocate a protocol number. And the meow draft seems to fall short of the requirements for such an allocation.

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus@cyberplace.social]

@Infoseepage @0xabad1dea "Come see the violence inherent in the OSI 7 layer model!"

[kasperd@westergaard.social]

When I visited that link I was reminded of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

[nila@infosec.exchange]

@0xabad1dea I wonder how interesting of an attack vector that could be in real life scenarios. How about having an LLM generate 500 drafts with non-obvious misinformation and watch crawlers crawl it, models being trained with the data and then people citing the resulting misinformation?

Or, more wildly: what's the authN process for working groups? I wonder how far a swarm of agent sock puppets could get in the RFC process...

[shwell@mastodon.au]

@0xabad1dea Bluesky?

[hugo@someone.elses.computer]

@0xabad1dea @slothrop ? Am just saying it d be a good April’s Fools thing to do. Don’t see replies on my fedi client.

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

@hugo @slothrop I’m saying it’s a pointed political statement and not a random joke https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116419619962656186

[itnomad@ruhr.social]

@0xabad1dea I, for one, would rather welcome our feline overlords.
(Edit: remove the URL)

[zackrobbin@mstdn.social]

@0xabad1dea