BLOAT, April Fool's joke, but..

I don't recall seeing this here on April 1:

   ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3252.txt

It's a joke, but they put a lot of work into it, and I was remembering 
the (fortunately few) times I've had to debug problems down at the 
transport level, and thinking how nice it would have been to have 
something like this.... -Tim