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RFC 22 - Host-Host Control Message Formats

  • Status: Unknown
  • Published: October 17, 1969
  • Stream: Legacy
  • Errata: No Errata

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 22
  • Title: Host-Host Control Message Formats
  • Authors: Vint Cerf (UCLA)
  • Date: October 17, 1969
  • Category: Unknown

Abstract​

This memo reports a new Host-Host control message format which does not use the 7-bit ASCII character mode of transmission, and which became necessary because NWG/RFC 11 had been modified at UCLA and was awaiting republication. It specifies that all Host-Host control messages consist of sequences of 8-bit bytes of the form <control byte> <parameter byte l> ... <parameter byte n>, and tabulates the nine control messages then defined by UCLA — establishing primary and auxiliary connections, acknowledging or rejecting them, and the CEASE, CLOSING and UNCEASE directives — together with their parameters and the interpretation as seen from the transmitting host. It closes with the layout of a typical control message and with the header common to all Host-Host control messages.

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