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- NWG/RFC # 151 A. Shoshani
- SDC
- NIC #6755 May 10, 1971
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- COMMENTS ON A PROFERRED OFFICIAL ICP
- (RFCs 123, 127)
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- Bob Long at SDC noticed that the order in which messages go out to the
- network depend on the local NCP. In particular commands may be given
- priority over data and therefore in the sequence specified for server in
- RFC 123 (top of Page 3), the last two INIT commands may go out before the
- data = S on socket = L is sent. (This is the case in the current
- implementation of SDC's NCP.) The implication is that the user's NCP should
- be prepared to keep the INIT's it received from the server until the user
- process gets the data = S and issues two INITs in response.
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- This case is brought up now so that people will think about it before the
- Atlantic City meeting and comment whether their NCP can tolerate it. It may
- be necessary to make it explicit in the ICP that the two INITs sent by the
- server should go out only after the data = S is sent, or even after the
- user process acknowledges its receipt.
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- I have a more general remark about the ICP. This is a third level protocol
- and therefore should not alter or ignore procedures of the second level
- protocol (Host-Host protocol). In particular three remarks seem
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- Kreznar [Page 1]
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- RFC 19 October 1969
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- 1. In RFC 123 (bottom of Page 2) it is suggested that the byte size for the
- connection to the server socket L is 32. However, in the modifications
- to second level protocol (RDC 107) it is specified that it is up to the
- sending process to chose the byte size. According to the Host-Host
- protocol, NCPs should be prepared to accept messages in any byte size
- (1<= size <=255); therefore there is no need to impose a size of 32 in
- this case. Furthermore, since it is up to the sender to choose the byte
- size, some Hosts may choose a particular byte size (for simplicity and
- convenience) and their NCP may not be geared to transmit in an imposed
- byte size.
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- 2. In RFCs 66 and 80, an ALL is expected on the connection to the server
- socket before data can be sent. In RFCs 123 and 127 the ALL requirement
- disappeared. But the ALL is a Host-Host protocol requirement and not
- requiring it creates special case. A particular NCP implementation may
- cause the ALL to be sent internally when a connection is created,
- without the user process having control of it. Relaxing this requirement
- will create a special case for the receiving NCP not to send the ALL and
- for the sending NCP to send the data = S without first receiving an ALL.
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- 3. In RFC 127, I disagree with the comment "send 32 bits of data in one
- message" because it is a second level protocol decision that a message
- can be sent in any size pieces and the size is to be specified through
- the ALL mechanism. In particular, there may be hosts which are not
- prepared to accept more than few bytes at a time (TIPs).
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- In general we should not make second level decisions in a third level
- protocol.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
- [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 12/96 ]
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- Kreznar [Page 2]
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