kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England)) (09/02/88)
Bill Barns from MITRE <barns@gateway.mitre.org> and Craig Partridge <craig@NNSC.NSF.NET> from BBN both pointed me toward the upcoming Host Requirements RFC. This is exactly what I was looking for. This RFC looks like the be all and end all of the definitive state of the RFCs related to implementations of telnet (and everything else :-). I was looking for a "state of telnet" document to help me determine the strengths and weaknesses of commercial telnet terminal servers. [Perhaps the authors won't like me using this RFC for that purpose, we'll see what they say when they publish it.] I was finding it quite difficult to figure out the mass of RFCs related to telnet. I basically wanted an analytically defined checklist to run through when checking out a telnet implementation to make sure that there were no glaring weaknesses in a particular implementation. We'll see if this new RFC won't handle this purpose when it is published. Meanwhile, there is no need for anyone else to write such an evaluation guide. (Thank goodness!) Kent England, BU