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- Network Working Group V. Cerf
- Request for Comments #63 31 July 70
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- Belated Network Meeting Report
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- On 8 May 1970, a Network Working Group meeting was hosted at Lincoln Labs.
- The topics under discussion were:
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- 1) Lincoln Lab's Local Interaction Language (LIL)
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- 2) Records, Messages, and Format in HOST-HOST information exchange.
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- 3) Miscellaneous gripes
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- The first topic is thoroughly summarized in Lincoln Lab's Semi annual
- Technical Summary titled "Graphics", dated May 31, 1970 (document id.
- ESD-TR-70-151).
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- The second topic involved considerable discussion of NWG/RFC #42 in which
- it was proposed that all messages be preceded by an 8-bit type byte which
- would declare the format of the message which followed.
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- The following decisions were reached:
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- a) Records may begin anywhere within a message.
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- b) The first 8 bits of a record are reserved for type information.
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- c) The first transmission on a connection starts a record.
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- Type 0 is agreed to mean that the transmission that follows consists of an
- arbitrarily long record, and that no further type bytes will be present.
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- The notions of messages and records are independent of the flow-control
- protocol. Thus the receipt of a message does not carry any semantic
- importance. The receipt of a record, however, may initiate some interpre-
- tation process.
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- After some discussion, the proposals in NWG/RFC #42 were permuted as follows:
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- type 0 = bit string of arbitrary length follows
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- type 1 = 8-bit ASCII follows
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- type 2 = EBCDIC follows
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- type 3 = MOD 33 TTY 7-bit ASCII
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- Network Working Group V. Cerf
- Request for Comments #63 31 July 70
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- type 4 = YOUR Local
- followed by another type byte
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- type 5 = MY Local
- followed by another type byte
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- The praise or blame for the preceding decisions rests on the attendees at
- the meeting, to wit:
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- E. Ancona (LL)
- T. J. Barkalow (LL)
- D. B. Black (Harvard)
- Jack Bouknight (UI)
- Howard Brodie (MAC)
- Vint Cerf (UCLA)
- Steve Crocker (UCLA)
- Jim Curry (UTAH)
- A. Evans (LL, MAC)
- Robert Flegal (UTAH)
- Jim Frogie (LL)
- J. D. Fry (MITRE)
- John Heafner (RAND)
- Bob Hoffman (RAND)
- Richard Kalin (LL)
- William Kantrowitz (LL)
- Peggy Karp (MITRE)
- Abe Landsberg (SDC)
- Robert Long (SDC)
- James Madden (UI)
- John Melvin (SRI)
- Alan Nemeth (LL)
- John Newkirk (Harvard)
- Jon Postel (UCLA)
- Tom O'Sullivan (Raytheon)
- Ari Shoshani (SDC)
- Joel Winett (LL)
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- Instead of sending NWG/RFC's to Chuck Rose at Case University, Jim Torson
- will be receiving them.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by Tammy and Ofer Porat 1/97 ]
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