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RFC 40 - More Comments on the Forthcoming Protocol

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

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 40
  • Title: More Comments on the Forthcoming Protocol
  • Authors: E. Harslem (RAND), J. Heafner (RAND)
  • Date: March 1970
  • Category: Unknown

Abstract​

RFC 40 continues the discussion of the forthcoming host-to-host protocol begun in NWG/RFC 36 and NWG/RFC 39. It specifies the <ERR> error message, listing the ranges and the specific values of its eight-bit <Code> field together with the meaning of each; it defines the <QRY> query and its <RPY> reply, and gives the grammar of the connection table entries that the reply carries; and it proposes the <NOP> command as a means by which a network control program can advertise its availability so that its neighbours can maintain a vector of host status.

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