Lloyd;
Development also requires and must encourage creativity within constraints, and the April Fools mechanism is an regular accepted outlet for such creativity.
He (or she?) should obviously be joking because such profound disrespect to the April Fool's RFCs, the very core of IETF culture, is totally against multiculturalism, deadly uncivil, regardless of minor variations on its meaning, and worth life long suspension of posting right to all the IETF lists. Masataka Ohta