RFC 1149

Improbable Research today draws our attention to the inventor of the PING program – which tests connectivity between devices on a TCP/IP network.

The computer standards behind all this are documented in Request For Comment papers (RFCs for short) that are held by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

I think a better candidate for Improbable Research would have been RFC 1149 – a standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers…