The protocols that are used in the Internet and many LANs are defined as a series of 'Requests for Comments' or RFCs for short.  Most of these are serious and not a good read.  However the editors have allowed some through which are on the lighter side.  Here are some I have spotted.

I bet you didn't know engineers could write prose...

Try looking at these RFCs 527, 968, 1121, 1300, 2100.

Animals seem to play an important part for some people...

Try these for size : 

Avian Carriers and its enhancement

Monkeys

Is there a grain of truth in these?

748 Confirming the obvious.

1097 Check the date on this one.

1217 Slow Commotion Research, the World Wide Wait?

1438 Boredom.

After the last you might want some stimulation 2324 Coffee Control protocols.

These are just interesting not necessarily funny...

		602 Security as much an issue in 1973 as today.
		1607 21st Century.
		1882 12 days of Christmas
		2322 Assigning IP numbers
		2235, 2555 History of Internet; useful reference.

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