When a new idea or technique is devised for use on the internet, the people concerned create a RFC (request for comment) to get other professionals to improve their ideas or show ways it can be used. These have been used to look at formats for e-mail, hypertext, file transfers etc. One of the latest ideas in communication has just been suggested - it’s far too advanced and ‘flying-edge’ to appear in an exam but you might find it useful as part of your background reading and general knowledge. Who knows - you might be one of the first people in your area to loft your data into cyberspace this way:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html

If you’re interested in this you can find a more detailed account of the first experiments with this new form of data transfer here:

http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

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