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Top 10 Rejected Internet Protocols

The Internet is full of successful protocols such as HTTP, FTP, DNS, SNMP, IMAP and myriad others. Let us not forgot those protocols that never quite reached stardom, or died right out of the gate. Here are the top 10 protocols that, for one reason or another, never made it mainstream.

10. HTTPf

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol fecure
Similar to HTTPS but everything is encrypted by converting to old English.

9. FCP

File Corruption Protocol
Never really found a practical use.

8. PIDP

Pornography Instant Delivery Protocol 
Renamed HTTP.

7. CBDP

Caffeinated Beverage Delivery Protocol 
Rejected after computer modelling showed it would require 132% of the world's aluminium resources to make the cans.

6. BFMP

Butter Finger Messaging Protocol
Problems with dropped packets spelled its demise.

5. VOAT

Voice Over A Telephone 
Duplicated talking on the phone.

4. N411SS

Nigerian 411 Scam Service 
A member of Nigerian royalty is still trying to get this one started, if he could only get some seed money.

3. RFTP

Renewable File Transfer Protocol 
No different than regular FTP, but used exclusively by Hybrid owners.

2. PLPR

Priceline Packet Routing 
William Shatner allows packets to name their own number of hops.

1. SJRDIP

Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Interface Protocol 
Catastrophically fails if you touch the antenna in the wrong place.

There are many I've missed, so please share them in the comments.

Reprinted from Admin Arsenal

Comment by Richard Holloway on July 28, 2010 at 4:30pm: FCP; File corruption protocol - Never really found a practical use - ?

What are you talking about? It is a feature in Windows Vista / Windows 7.

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Comment by Adam Ruth on July 28, 2010 at 7:58pm: Good point. But, in my defence Microsoft's implementation is non-standard, as usual, so it's really MFCP.

Comment by John McGrath on July 29, 2010 at 11:44am: BFMP: I believe this was used recently by a stock broker...
CBDP: This protocol much more economical since the advent of Fiber.
MMSP: Microsoft Minutes Signalling Protocol: This protocol was designed to the user the impression that a file transfer is occuring. See 'Blue Line Disorder'.