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- Network Working Group S. Crocker
- Request for Comments #53 UCLA
- 9 June 70
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- An Official Protocol Mechanism
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- During the Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City, Larry
- Roberts, Barry Wessler, Cordell Green, Jon Postel and I discussed rules
- for establishing and modifying an official Host-Host protocol.
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- The following decisions were made:
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- 1. A new set of documents will be created. This set of
- documents will specify the official Host-Host protocol. When
- it becomes appropriate, these documents will be maintained at
- the Network Information Center on SRI's computer.
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- 2. I will distribute proposals for the initial version of the
- official protocol and all subsequent changes as NWG/RFC's.
- These proposals will be formulated from suggestions made by
- any interested parties.
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- 3. After a proposal for a change in the official protocol
- has been issued as an NWG/RFC, networkers are requested to
- respond with approval, criticism, etc. A cutoff date will be
- included with each protocol.
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- 4. After the cutoff date, one of two situations will prevail.
- Either the proposal will have been substantially accepted by
- the network community, or substantial criticism will have been
- generated. In the latter case, the process stops and no
- change occurs to the official protocol.
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- 5. If the proposal has been substantially accepted, the
- proposal, together with its minor revisions will be forwarded
- to the ARPA office. Barry Wessler or his successor will then
- either approve or disapprove the whole proposal. His decision
- will be returned to me by letter.
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- 6. After the ARPA office approves the proposal, I will send
- out the new protocol (as mentioned in item 1 above).
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- The first version of an official protocol will be proferred this month.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by Kathy de Graaf 2/98 ]
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