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- Network Working Group R. T. Braden
- Request for Comments #238 UCLA-CCN
- NIC #7663 September 29, 1971
- Category:
- Updates: RFC #171, RFC #172
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- COMMENTS ON DTP AND FTP PROPOSALS
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- Data Transfer Protocol
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- 1. In the Descriptor/Count mode, the Information Separators should
- have a transaction sequence number field. Otherwise, the receiver
- cannot be sure he received all transactions before the separation.
- This requires that there be two forms of information separators, one
- for Descriptor/Count mode, the other for the DLE mode.
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- 2. The modes-available handshake should not be mandatory, as it makes
- no sense in the simplex case. The receiver doesn't care what modes
- the transmitter _might_ use; he only cares what mode _is_ used, which
- he discovers when the first data or control transaction arrives. Even
- in the duplex case, it is not clear what use the receiver should make
- of the modes-available information from the transmitter.
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- File Transfer Protocol
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- 1. The protocol allows an end-of-file to be indicated by closing the
- connection. This is the same mistake which we made in an early
- version of NETRJS. Closing the connection without a File Separator
- transaction should only be used to indicate an error, i.e., to abort
- the transmission; it should never be used to indicate normal
- completion of file transfer. The reason is obvious: there is no way
- for the receiver to tell whether CLS indicates normal completion or an
- abnormal condition in the other host (e.g. the file transfer program
- died).
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- 2. There should be two forms of the _store_ request, one which fails
- if a file of the same name already exists, and one which replaces an
- existing file of the same name (as now).
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- 3. A service center host may be expected to require username and
- password transactions before any others are accepted.
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- 4. There are no error transactions defined for lost data or lost
- synch. It is assumed there are handled at the DTP level?
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- 5. All of the defined error codes should be allowed (and encouraged)
- to have explanatory text following them.
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- RTB:gjm
- [ 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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