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RFC 65 - Comments on Host-Host Protocol Document No. 1 (S. Crocker - 8/3/70)

  • Status: Unknown
  • Published: August 29, 1970
  • Stream: Legacy
  • Errata: No Errata

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 65
  • Title: Comments on Host-Host Protocol Document No. 1 (S. Crocker - 8/3/70)
  • Authors: Dave Walden (A/S Norsk Data-Elektonikk)
  • Date: August 29, 1970
  • Category: Unknown

Abstract​

RFC 65 records Dave Walden's comments on Document No. 1 of the Host-Host Protocol, taking the pages of that document in turn. It proposes to eliminate the marking of data messages by sending the leader and the data in two separate messages, to send control messages to and from the control socket rather than over a control link, to encourage permanent socket assignments together with a network-wide directory of socket/resource associations, to limit the total number of links and add a sender-chosen pseudo link so that table look-ups in the NCP can be simplified, to allocate receive buffers in units of the receiver's buffer size, to drop the irregular messages added to make the cease mechanism work, and to replace ERR with a per-message process-to-process acknowledgment. It closes by observing that the page 3 and page 6 comments would require changes to the IMP program, while the page 9 comment is aimed at avoiding one.

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