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- Network Working Group John Davidson
- Request for Comments #355 UH-ALOHA SYSTEM
- NIC # 10597 9 June 72
- Category: Local Echoing, Remote Echoing, Satellite
- References: RFC 346
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- RESPONSE TO NWG/RFC 346
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- John Davidson
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- June 9, 1972
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- Long transmission delays such as those inherent in satellite
- communication are most certainly a cause for concern among users of
- remote interactive systems. Since the University of Hawaii will, by
- the end of this year, be linked to the ARPANET via satellite, the
- consequences of such delays are perhaps of more immediate concern to
- us than to current members of the surface net. Consequently the BCC
- 500 research group here has been studying various solutions to the
- problems of buffer allocation, partitioned echoing, etc. re-introduced
- in RFC 346.
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- Generally, the solutions come from extensions to the original
- design concepts of the BCC 500 distributed communication system. The
- 500 was designed to serve a large number of geographically-scattered
- users each of whom accessed the central computing facility through one
- of several remote concentrators. [The concept is not too unlike that
- of users at different TIPs all accessing a single host.] Since it was
- felt that in full-duplex, character-by-character interaction, echo
- delays of any noticeable length should not be tolerated, a facility
- was provide whereby the concentrator could provide local (to the
- terminal) echoing when deemed appropriate. (A character input/output
- microprocessor, the CHIO, in implicit conjunction with the terminal
- user's process executing in the CPU dictated when it was appropriate.)
- The problems associated with coordinating the concentrator and CHIO in
- the partioning of echoing were solved for the BCC 500, but are not
- immediately extensible to the asynchronous message transmissions of
- the ARPANET - especially with the introduction of satellite delays.
- As stated, we are working on some viable alternatives.
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- It is not known, at present, what effects the incorporation of
- these partitioned echoing techniques might have on the existing net.
- Perhaps local echoing will become a function of User TELNETs; most
- certainly local echoing should be available in the TIP. But could it
- be incorporated into the IMP so that TIP and User TELNETs can be used
- without change? If so, what happens to the concentrator's local
- echoing capability in a system such as the BCC 500?
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- These questions do not have immediate answers. Other problems
- obviously exist because of the differences in serving system
- conventions for terminal control. We, in conjunction with the ILLIAC
- group at NASA-AMES, are seeking solutions to such problems in general,
- with an eye toward their implementation
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- on the net. I would appreciate hearing of any other research being
- performed in this area, and will be happy to discuss the findings of
- our group with any interested parties.
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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. 1/97 ]
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