I think it was supposedly New Zealand or something. It's been a long time since I've read the full texts.
nyan
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That series of RFCs (1149, 2549, 6214) keeps getting rediscovered by new generations of technical folk. Among other issues that have never been completely addressed are accidental encapsulation of packets in hawks, and whether the Internet is doomed to be slow in locations where the only avian carriers available are flightless.
There has been one successful implementation of the protocol to date. 55% of ping attempts went through.
(As April Fools RFCs go, the only one that's arguably more popular than IPoAC is the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, the source of 418 I am a teapot).
It’s off center, but still balanced because it hasn’t fallen.
Until a vibration hits, or someone blows gently on the blocks at the top right.
The result would have been the same if there had been a human behind the catfishing instead of an LLM, and events could have played out in a similar fashion if they'd been snail mail pen pals. The outcome of this story is tragic, but it doesn't have much to do with technology when you stop and think about it for a moment.