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+Network Working Group                                    W. Shakespeare
+Request for Comments: 1605                         Globe Communications
+Category: Informational                                    1 April 1994
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+                      SONET to Sonnet Translation
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+Status of this Memo
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+   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
+   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
+   this memo is unlimited.
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+Abstract
+
+   Because Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) transmits data in frames
+   of bytes, it is fairly easy to envision ways to compress SONET frames
+   to yield higher bandwidth over a given fiber optic link.  This memo
+   describes a particular method, SONET Over Novel English Translation
+   (SONNET).
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+Protocol Overview
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+   In brief, SONNET is a method for compressing 810-byte (9 lines by 90
+   bytes) SONET OC-1 frames into approximately 400-byte (fourteen line
+   decasyllabic) English sonnets.  This compression scheme yields a
+   roughly 50% average compression, and thus SONNET compression speeds
+   are designated OCh-#, where 'h' indicates 50% (one half) compression
+   and the # is the speed of the uncompressed link.  The acronym is
+   pronounced "owch."
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+   Mapping of the 2**704 possible SONET payloads is achieved by matching
+   each possible payload pattern with its equivalent Cerf catalog number
+   (see [1], which lists a vast number of sonnets in English, many of
+   which are truly terrible but suffice for the purposes of this memo).
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+Basic Transmission Rules
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+   The basic transmission rules are quite simple.  The basic SONET OC-1
+   frame is replaced with the corresponding sonnet at the transmission
+   end converted back from the sonnet to SONET at the receiving end.
+   Thus, for example, SONET frame 12 is transmitted as:
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+        When do I count the clock that tells the time
+        And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
+        When I behold the violet past prime,
+        And sable curls,...
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+Shakespeare                                                     [Page 1]
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+RFC 1605              SONET to Sonnet Translation           1 April 1994
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+   For rates higher than OC-1, the OC-1 frames may either come
+   interleaved or concatenated into larger frames.  Under SONNET
+   conversion rules, interleaved frames have their corresponding sonnet
+   representations interleaved.  Thus SONET frames 33, 29 and 138 in an
+   OC-3 frame would be converted to the sequence:
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+        Full many a glorious morning have I seen
+        When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
+        When my loves swears that she is made of truth
+        Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye
+        I all alone beweep my outcast state,
+        I do believe her, though I know she lies
+        Kissing with golden face...
+
+   while in an OC-3c frame, the individual OC-1 frames concatenated, one
+   after another, viz.:
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+        Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-
+        tops with sovereign eye Kissing with golden face...
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+        When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone
+        beweep my outcast state,...
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+        When my loves swears that she is made of truth I do believe her,
+        though I know she lies...
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+   (This example, perhaps, makes clear why data communications experts
+   consider concatenated SONET more efficient and esthetically
+   pleasing).
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+Timing Issues
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+   It is critical in this translation scheme to maintain consistent
+   timing within a frame.  If SONET frames or converted sonnets shift in
+   time, the SONET pointers, or worse, poetic meter, may suffer.
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+Shakespeare                                                     [Page 2]
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+RFC 1605              SONET to Sonnet Translation           1 April 1994
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+References
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+   [1] Cerf, B., "A Catalog of All Published English Sonnets to 1950",
+       Random House, 1953. (Now out of print.)
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+Security Considerations
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+   Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
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+Author's Address
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+   William Shakespeare
+   Globe Communications
+   London, United Kingdom
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+   Any suggestions that this, or any other work by this author, might
+   be the work of a third party such as C. Marlow, R. Bacon, or
+   C. Partridge or based on a previously developed theme by
+   P.V. Mockapetris are completely spurious.
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+Shakespeare                                                     [Page 3]
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