In “Not a spectral line excited”: How to Recall a Standard, artist Rowan McNaught somnographically intervenes into the Request for Comments (RFC) archive. Constituted by a series of documents that have been written and circulated since 1969, each RFC proposes a technical standard to unify the systems and protocols that make up the Internet. Once radical and anarchic, the documents have become an artless mixture of corporate capture, administrative bureaucracy, and reactionary anti-bureaucracy. Not a spectral line excited dreams of an update to the RFC that slips from this trajectory into something more difficult, and you are a part of that dream.