Helminthiasis of the Internet
RFC 1135, “Helminthiasis of the Internet”, is an Informational document published in December 1989 by J.K. Reynolds. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This memo takes a look back at the helminthiasis (infestation with, or disease caused by parasitic worms) of the Internet that was unleashed the evening of 2 November 1988. This RFC provides information about an event that occurred in the life of the Internet. This memo does not specify any standard. This document provides a glimpse at the infection, its festering, and cure. The impact of the worm on the Internet community, ethics statements, the role of the news media, crime in the computer world, and future prevention is discussed. A documentation review presents four publications that describe in detail this particular parasitic computer program. Reference and bibliography sections are also included.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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- RFC 1134 Point-to-Point Protocol: A proposal for multi-protocol transmission of datagrams over Point-to-Point links
- RFC 1136 Administrative Domains and Routing Domains: A model for routing in the Internet
- RFC 1133 Routing between the NSFNET and the DDN
- RFC 1137 Mapping between full RFC 822 and RFC 822 with restricted encoding
- RFC 1132 Standard for the transmission of 802.2 packets over IPX networks
- RFC 1138 Mapping between X.400 / ISO 10021 and RFC 822
- RFC 1131 OSPF specification
- RFC 1130 IAB official protocol standards