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The Quantum Bug
RFC 8774

Document history

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2020-04-03
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2020-04-01
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 8774, created alias RFC 8774, changed title to 'The Quantum Bug', changed abstract to …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 8774, created alias RFC 8774, changed title to 'The Quantum Bug', changed abstract to 'The age of quantum networking is upon us, and with it comes "entanglement": a procedure in which a state (i.e., a bit) can be transferred instantly, with no measurable delay between peers.  This will lead to a perceived round-trip time of zero seconds on some Internet paths, a capability which was not predicted and so not included as a possibility in many protocol specifications.  Worse than the millennium bug, this unexpected value is bound to cause serious Internet failures unless the specifications are fixed in time.', changed pages to 6, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, changed stream to ISE, added RFC published event at 2020-04-01)
2020-04-01
(System) RFC published