[NetBehaviour] IETF RFC 1437 Extension of MIME Content-Types: Sentient Life-Form Transport

[Bjørn Magnhildøen]

Btw the human genome project was completed in April (1st?) ten years after,
in 2003. DNA.zip is less than 1 gb, should work

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, 17:58 Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour, <
netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Dear NetBehaviourists,
>
> The Internet Engineering Task Force Request for Comments 1437 outlines an
> Extension of MIME Content-Types to include the:
>
>     matter-transport/sentient life-form transport
>     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1437
>
> to support life-bearing email (for example). Careful implementation of
> this protocol and its attendant engineering standards would enable us to
> visit other NetBehaviour subscribers without having to pay airfare. For
> those of us living in the Untied States of America, the possibility of
> emailing ourselves into democracies (talkin' about you, Canada and Mexico)
> could prove a welcome alternative to actually implementing one ourselves.
>
> Thanks to AI's capacity for predicting the content of internet packets *before
> they arrive* (just the latest development in our mad rush to the future),
> we could even find ourselves transported into a democracy before we so much
> as conceive of the possibility, if our friends will only harness the power
> of AI and provide us with lots of server space.
>
> I will nominate Alan Sondheim as the first test subject, i.e., Internet
> Transport Pioneer, to attempt Transport to a Democracy. If he arrives
> unscrambled and right side up, I will follow. UK subscribers, check your
> Spam folders, just in case AI has already sent us your way.
>
> Tell me you are working on this, please.
>
> all best,
>
> Paul
>
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