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RFC 49 - Conversations with S. Crocker (UCLA)

  • Status: Unknown
  • Published: April 25, 1970
  • Stream: Legacy
  • Errata: No Errata

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 49
  • Title: Conversations with S. Crocker (UCLA)
  • Authors: Edwin W. Meyer, Jr. (MIT Project MAC)
  • Date: April 25, 1970
  • Category: Unknown

Abstract​

RFC 49 reports Edwin W. Meyer's telephone conversations of 21 and 23 April 1970 with Steve Crocker at UCLA about the host-host protocol then under discussion in the Network Working Group. The memo records Crocker's positions on six points: a need for dynamic reconnection will be recognised later but will not be in the initial implementation; the INT network command of NWG/RFC 46 is supported; the socket identifier should contain neither an instance tag nor a reserved null field; no structure, not even a character set or optional echoing, should be imposed on data at the NCP level; messages should be aligned to end on a word boundary rather than double padded; and RFCs addressed to inactive or connected sockets should be briefly queued rather than rejected at once with CLS. The author accepts most of these points, and closes with a critique of Crocker's alternative User Control and Communication (UCC) proposal and with a defence of the scheme advanced in NWG/RFC 46.

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