>> You mean like this?
>>
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc793.txt
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc813.txt

I guess back then we didn't imagine it would be completely normal to 
transfer gigabytes of data around the world at hundreds of megabits per 
second.

> Forgot to add: Johnathan Postel - who wrote most of the early IETF RFCs
> - is already dead, so you can't shoot him.

Good job RFC-2018 was written then to fix the exact problem you highlighted.

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