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RFC 66 - 3rd Level Ideas and other Noises

  • Status: Unknown
  • Published: August 26, 1970
  • Stream: Legacy
  • Obsoleted by: RFC 123
  • Updated by: RFC 80, RFC 93
  • Errata: RFC 66 Errata

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 66
  • Title: 3rd Level Ideas and other Noises
  • Authors: S. Crocker (UCLA)
  • Date: August 26, 1970
  • Category: Unknown
  • Obsoleted by: RFC 123
  • Updated by: RFC 80, RFC 93

Abstract​

RFC 66 records the outcome of a meeting held on 12 August 1970 between S. Crocker (UCLA) and representatives of BBN and MIT on third level protocol. It sets out the dial-up protocol agreed at that meeting: how a using process reaches the logger at a serving host, the RTS/STR/CLS/ALL message exchange that establishes the two connections, and the convention that the serving socket number must be even. It then fixes an initial network standard console — 7-bit ASCII carried in 8-bit fields with the eighth bit on, in contiguous streams — together with the INR character used for break or interrupt.

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