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RFC 23 - Transmission of Multiple Control Messages

  • Status: Unknown
  • Published: 16 October 1969
  • Stream: Legacy
  • Errata: No Errata

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 23
  • Title: Transmission of Multiple Control Messages
  • Authors: G. Gregg (UCSB)
  • Date: 16 October 1969
  • Category: Unknown

Abstract​

This memo states that the network program at a site must be prepared to send or receive more than one control message in a single control communication. Because control messages destined for a particular remote host can accumulate while the control link is blocked awaiting an RFNM, they should all be sent in a single communication once the link is unblocked, for greatest efficiency. On the receiving side a loop is therefore required which returns to decode and act on successive control messages until the control communication is exhausted.

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