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RFC 39 - Comments on Protocol Re: NWG/RFC #36

  • Status: Unknown
  • Published: 25 March 1970
  • Stream: Legacy
  • Errata: No Errata

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 39
  • Title: Comments on Protocol Re: NWG/RFC #36
  • Authors: E. Harslem, J. Heafner (RAND)
  • Date: 25 March 1970
  • Category: Unknown

Abstract​

RFC 39 presents the comments of E. Harslem and J. Heafner of RAND on the host-to-host protocol documented in NWG/RFC 36. It proposes six additions to the protocol grammar specifications then under discussion for 28 April 1970 -- error messages, queries, program termination notification, host status messages, and transmit and broadcast commands -- and it closes with a criticism of the complexity of the RFC and dynamic reconnection facilities and of the response times they imply.

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