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Network Working Group W. Shakespeare Request for Comments: 1605 Globe Communications Category: Informational 1 April 1994

                    SONET to Sonnet Translation

Status of this Memo

 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.

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).

Protocol Overview

 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."
 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).

Basic Transmission Rules

 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:
      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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 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:
      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.:
      Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain-
      tops with sovereign eye Kissing with golden face...
      When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone
      beweep my outcast state,...
      When my loves swears that she is made of truth I do believe her,
      though I know she lies...
 (This example, perhaps, makes clear why data communications experts
 consider concatenated SONET more efficient and esthetically
 pleasing).

Timing Issues

 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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References

 [1] Cerf, B., "A Catalog of All Published English Sonnets to 1950",
     Random House, 1953. (Now out of print.)

Security Considerations

 Security issues are not discussed in this memo.

Author's Address

 William Shakespeare
 Globe Communications
 London, United Kingdom
 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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