brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) (03/03/86)
Over the next few weeks I will be distributing many of the most important Internet documents on protocols and the like. These "Request For Comments" are the key documents to understanding the operation of many of the DARPA Internet protocols. Part of the reason I am distributing them here is because many Unix (tm) systems utilize these protocols as the basis for much of their networking, mail, and other related items, even though a particular system might not be connected to the Internet. Hosts who are connected to the Internet may retrieve these documents from the Network Information Center (host SRI-NIC.ARPA) with anonymous FTP. Uucp hosts can't normally get them, so I'm posting them. Note that these documents are in line-printer-ready format. They have 60 or fewer lines per page, 80 or fewer characters per line, and have only newlines, spaces, and form-feeds in them for format effectors. They are not available in any other form. Some of the documents are quite large; I've broken these up into smaller chunks for distribution. They are broken at line boundaries; just glue them back together to get the original document back. No chunk will exceed 56KB; most average around 38KB. If you know of other Darpa Internet RFCs or suchlike that you think would be a good idea to post, let me know and I'll look into it. I'm told you may make as many copies and distribute these documents in any way you'd like. Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group decvax\ brian@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu ihnp4 >--- sdcsvax --- brian ucbvax/ Kantor@Nosc ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Documents to be posted over the next few weeks: rfc783 THE TFTP PROTOCOL (REVISION 2) rfc791 INTERNET PROTOCOL rfc792 INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL rfc793 TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL rfc821 SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL rfc822 STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES rfc841 SPECIFICATION FOR MESSAGE FORMAT FOR COMPUTER BASED MESSAGE SYSTEMS rfc850 Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages rfc854 TELNET PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION rfc862 Echo Protocol rfc863 Discard Protocol rfc864 Character Generator Protocol rfc865 Quote of the Day Protocol rfc866 Active Users rfc867 Daytime Protocol rfc868 Time Protocol rfc896 Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks rfc913 Simple File Transfer Protocol rfc921 Domain Name System Implementation Schedule - Revised rfc937 Post Office Protocol - Version 2 rfc948 TWO METHODS FOR THE TRANSMISSION OF IP DATAGRAMS OVER IEEE 802.3 NETWORKS rfc950 Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure rfc956 Algorithms for Synchronizing Network Clocks rfc957 Experiments in Network Clock Synchronization rfc958 Network Time Protocol (NTP) rfc959 FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP) rfc960 ASSIGNED NUMBERS rfc961 OFFICIAL ARPA-INTERNET PROTOCOLS
dml@bu-cs.UUCP (David Matthew Lyle) (03/04/86)
A lot of the DoD/ARPA/Internet documents are also available from
INFO@csnet-sh.arpa. Information on how to use the CSNET Info system
were in the last CSNET Newsletter, that I suspect, all CSNET sites
should have gotten.
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CSNET: dml@bostonu Boston, Massachusetts 02215brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) (03/05/86)
In article <1498@sdcsvax.UUCP> I wrote: >Over the next few weeks I will be distributing many of the most >important Internet documents on protocols and the like. Actually, mod.sources.doc is a much better place. And the RFCs will be posted there, now that its actually being set up. Problem was that although the group mod.sources.doc had been officially announced, many North American hosts never received the newgroup message. And there were news problems on the machine that was supposed to be the moderator's host and message archive. Through the valiant efforts of Mark Horton and Ron Natalie (the moderator for the group) and some assistance from Erik Fair, we are trying to get the mod.sources.doc newsgroup working (including the ARPA/USENET gateway for it) and when we do, I'll post the remaining RFCs there. So hang in there. And thanks to all of you for your comments and encouragement. And no, there isn't a better place to have posted this followup. - Brian