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Network Working Group J. Reynolds
Request for Comments: 1000 J. Postel
ISI
August 1987
Obsoletes: RFCs 084, 100, 160, 170, 200, 598, 699, 800, 899, 999
THE REQUEST FOR COMMENTS REFERENCE GUIDE
STATUS OF THIS MEMO
This RFC is a reference guide for the Internet community which
summarizes of all the Request for Comments issued between April 1969
and March 1987. This guide also categorizes the RFCs by topic.
INTRODUCTION
This RFC Reference Guide is intended to provide a historical account
by categorizing and summarizing of the Request for Comments numbers 1
through 999 issued between the years 1969-1987. These documents have
been crossed referenced to indicate which RFCs are current, obsolete,
or revised. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
THE ORIGINS OF RFCS - by Stephen D. Crocker
The DDN community now includes hundreds of nodes and thousands of
users, but once it was all a gleam in Larry Roberts' eye. While much
of the development proceeded according to a grand plan, the design of
the protocols and the creation of the RFCs was largely accidental.
The procurement of the ARPANET was initiated in the summer of 1968 --
Remember Vietnam, flower children, etc? There had been prior
experiments at various ARPA sites to link together computer systems,
but this was the first version to explore packet-switching on a grand
scale. ("ARPA" didn't become "DARPA" until 1972.) Unlike most of
the ARPA/IPTO procurements of the day, this was a competitive
procurement. The contract called for four IMPs to be delivered to
UCLA, SRI, UCSB and The University of Utah. These sites were running
a Sigma 7 with the SEX operating system, an SDS 940 with the Genie
operating system, an IBM 360/75 with OS/MVT (or perhaps OS/MFT), and
a DEC PDP-10 with the Tenex operating system. Options existed for
additional nodes if the first experiments were successful. BBN won
the procurement in December 1968, but that gets ahead of this story.
Part of the reason for selecting these four sites was these were
existing ARPA computer science research contractors. The precise
usage of the ARPANET was not spelled out in advance, and the research
community could be counted on to take some initiative. To stimulate
this process, a meeting was called during the summer with
representatives from the selected sites, chaired by Elmer Shapiro
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from SRI. If memory serves me correctly, Jeff Rulifson came from
SRI, Ron Stoughton from UCSB, Steve Carr from Utah and I came from
UCLA. (Apologies to anyone I've left out; records are inaccessible or
lost at this point.) At this point we knew only that the network was
coming, but the precise details weren't known.
That first meeting was seminal. We had lots of questions -- how IMPs
and hosts would be connected, what hosts would say to each other, and
what applications would be supported. No one had any answers, but
the prospects seemed exciting. We found ourselves imagining all
kinds of possibilities -- interactive graphics, cooperating
processes, automatic data base query, electronic mail -- but no one
knew where to begin. We weren't sure whether there was really room
to think hard about these problems; surely someone from the east
would be along by and by to bring the word. But we did come to one
conclusion: We ought to meet again. Over the next several months, we
managed to parlay that idea into a series of exchange meetings at
each of our sites, thereby setting the most important precedent in
protocol design.
The first few meetings were quite tenuous. We had no official
charter. Most of us were graduate students and we expected that a
professional crew would show up eventually to take over the problems
we were dealing with. Without clear definition of what the host-IMP
interface would look like, or even what functions the IMP would
provide, we focused on exotic ideas. We envisioned the possibility
of application specific protocols, with code downloaded to user
sites, and we took a crack at designing a language to support this.
The first version was known as DEL, for "Decode-Encode Language" and
a later version was called NIL, for "Network Interchange Language."
When the IMP contract was finally let and BBN provided some definite
information on the host-IMP interface, all attention shifted to
low-level matters and the ambitious ideas for automatic downloading
of code evaporated. It was several years before ideas like remote
procedure calls and typed objects reappeared.
In February of 1969 we met for the first time with BBN. I don't
think any of us were prepared for that meeting. The BBN folks, led
by Frank Heart, Bob Kahn, Severo Ornstein and Will Crowther, found
themselves talking to a crew of graduate students they hadn't
anticipated. And we found ourselves talking to people whose first
concern was how to get bits to flow quickly and reliably but hadn't
-- of course -- spent any time considering the thirty or forty layers
of protocol above the link level. And while BBN didn't take over the
protocol design process, we kept expecting that an official protocol
design team would announce itself.
A month later, after a particularly delightful meeting in Utah, it
became clear to us that we had better start writing down our
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discussions. We had accumulated a few notes on the design of DEL and
other matters, and we decided to put them together in a set of notes.
I remember having great fear that we would offend whomever the
official protocol designers were, and I spent a sleepless night
composing humble words for our notes. The basic ground rules were
that anyone could say anything and that nothing was official. And to
emphasize the point, I labeled the notes "Request for Comments." I
never dreamed these notes would distributed through the very medium
we were discussing in these notes. Talk about Sorcerer's Apprentice!
Over the spring and summer of 1969 we grappled with the detailed
problems of protocol design. Although we had a vision of the vast
potential for intercomputer communication, designing usable protocols
was another matter. A custom hardware interface and custom intrusion
into the operating system was going to be required for anything we
designed, and we anticipated serious difficulty at each of the sites.
We looked for existing abstractions to use. It would have been
convenient if we could have made the network simply look like a tape
drive to each host, but we knew that wouldn't do.
It was clear we needed to support remote login for interactive use --
later known as Telnet -- and we needed to move files from machine to
machine. We also knew that we needed a more fundamental point of
view for building a larger array of protocols. Unfortunately,
operating systems of that era tended to view themselves as the center
of the universe; symmetric cooperation did not fit into the concepts
currently available within these operating systems. And time was
pressing: The first IMP was due to be delivered to UCLA September 1,
1969, and the rest were scheduled at monthly intervals.
At UCLA we scrambled to build a host-IMP interface. SDS, the builder
of the Sigma 7, wanted many months and many dollars to do the job.
Mike Wingfield, another grad student at UCLA, stepped in and offered
to get interface built in six weeks for a few thousand dollars. He
had a gorgeous, fully instrumented interface working in five and one
half weeks. I was in charge of the software, and we were naturally
running a bit late. September 1 was Labor Day, so I knew I had a
couple of extra days to debug the software. Moreover, I had heard
BBN was having some timing troubles with the software, so I had some
hope they'd miss the ship date. And I figured that first some
Honeywell people would install the hardware -- IMPs were built out of
Honeywell 516s in those days -- and then BBN people would come in a
few days later to shake down the software. An easy couple of weeks
of grace.
BBN fixed their timing trouble, air shipped the IMP, and it arrived
on our loading dock on Saturday, August 30. They arrived with the
IMP, wheeled it into our computer room, plugged it in and the
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software restarted from where it had been when the plug was pulled in
Cambridge. Still Saturday, August 30. Panic time at UCLA.
The second IMP was delivered to SRI at the beginning of October, and
ARPA's interest was intense. Larry Roberts and Barry Wessler came by
for a visit on November 21, and we actually managed to demonstrate a
Telnet-like connection to SRI.
With the pressure to get something working and the general confusion
as to how to achieve the high generality we all aspired to, we punted
and defined the first set of protocols to include only Telnet and FTP
functions. In particular, only asymmetric, user-server relationships
were supported. In December 1969, we met with Larry Roberts in Utah,
and suffered our first direct experience with "redirection". Larry
made it abundantly clear that our first step was not big enough, and
we went back to the drawing board. Over the next few months we
designed a symmetric host-host protocol, and we defined an abstract
implementation of the protocol known as the Network Control Program.
("NCP" later came to be used as the name for the protocol, but it
originally meant the program within the operating system that managed
connections. The protocol itself was known blandly only as the
host-host protocol.) Along with the basic host-host protocol, we
also envisioned a hierarchy of protocols, with Telnet, FTP and some
splinter protocols as the first examples. If we had only consulted
the ancient mystics, we would have seen immediately that seven layers
were required.
The initial experiment had been declared an immediate success and the
network continued to grow. More and more people started coming to
meetings, and the Network Working Group began to take shape. Working
Group meetings started to have 50 and 100 people in attendance
instead of the half dozen we had had in 1968 and early 1969. We held
one meeting in conjunction with the Spring Joint Computer Conference
in Atlantic City in 1971. In October 1971 we all convened at MIT for
a major protocol "fly-off". Representatives from each site were on
hand, and everyone tried to log in to everyone else's site. With the
exception of one site that was completely down, the matrix was almost
completely filled in, and we had reached a major milestone in
connectivity.
The rapid growth of the network and the working group also led to a
large pile of RFCs. When the 100th RFC was in sight, Peggy Karp took
on the task of indexing them. That seemed like a large task then,
and we could have hardly anticipated seeing more than a 1000 RFCs
several years later.
Where will it end? The network has the exceeded all estimates of its
growth. It has been transformed, extended, cloned, renamed and
reimplemented. I doubt if there is a single computer still on the
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network that was on it in 1971. But the RFCs march on. Maybe I'll
write a few words for RFC 10,000.
REQUEST FOR COMMENTS BY CATEGORIES
The RFCs are categorized into several broad groups and within these
groups are subdivided by topic. For example, the RFCs relating to
file transfer are in 5 (Applications) c (File Transfer).
1. Administrative
1a. Assigned Numbers RFCs
997, 990, 960, 943, 923, 900, 870, 820, 790, 776, 770, 762,
758, 755, 750, 739, 717, 604, 503, 433, 349, 322, 317, 204,
179, 175, 167.
1b. Official Protocols RFCs
991, 961, 944, 924, 901, 880, 840, 694, 661, 617, 582, 580,
552.
774 - Internet Protocol Handbook Table of Contents
1c. Meeting Notes and Minutes
898 - Gateway Special Interest Group Meeting Notes
808, 805, 469 - Computer Mail Meeting Notes
910, 807 - Multimedia Mail Meeting Notes
585 - ARPANET Users Interest Working Group Meeting
549, 396, 282, 253 - Graphics Meeting Notes
371 - International Computer Communications Conference
327 - Data and File Transfer Workshop Notes
316 - Data Management Working Group Meeting Report
164, 131, 116, 108, 101, 082, 077, 066, 063, 037, 021 - Network
Working Group Meeting
1d. Meeting Announcements and Group Overviews
828 - Data Communications: IFIP's International "Network" of
Experts
631 - Call for Papers: International Meeting on Minicomputers
and Data Communication
584 - Charter for ARPANET Users Interest Working Group
537 - Announcement of NGG Meeting
526 - Technical Meeting - Digital Image Processing Software
Systems
504 - Workshop Announcement
483 - Cancellation of the Resource Notebook Framework Meeting
474, 314, 246, 232, 134 - Network Graphics Working Group
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471 - Announcement of a (Tentative) Workshop on Multi-Site
Executive Programs
461 - Telnet Meeting Announcement
457 - TIPUG
456 - Memorandum
454 - File Transfer Protocol Meeting Announcement
453 - Meeting Announcement to Discuss a Network Mail System
374 - IMP System Announcement
359 - The Status of the Release of the New IMP System (2600)
343, 331 - IMP System Change Notification
324 - RJE Protocol Meeting
323 - Formation of Network Measurement Group (NMG)
320 - Workshop on Hard Copy Line Graphics
309 - Data and File Transfer Workshop Announcement
299 - Information Management System
295 - Report of the Protocol Workshop
291, 188, 173 - Data Management Meetings
245, 234, 207, 188, 173, 140, 116, 099, 087, 085, 075, 043, 035
- Network Working Group Meetings
222 - System Programmer's Workshop
212 - NWG Meeting on Network Usage
157 - Invitation to the Second Symposium on Problems in the
Optimization of Data Communication Systems
149 - The Best Laid Plans...
147 - The Definition of a Socket
111 - Pressure from the Chairman
048 - A Possible Protocol Plateau
046 - ARPA Network Protocol Notes
1e. Distribution List
402, 363, 329, 303, 300, 211, 168, 155 - ARPA Network Mailing
Lists
069 - Distribution List Change for MIT
052 - Updated Distribution List
1f. Policies
980 - Protocol Document Order Form
952, 810, 608 - Host Table Specification
945 - A DoD Statement on the NRC Report
902 - ARPA-Internet Protocol Policy
849 - Suggestions for Improved Host Table Distribution
678 - Document Formats
602 - The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney With Care
115 - Some Network Information Center Policies on Handling
Documents
053 - An Official Protocol Mechanism
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1g. Request for Comments Administrative
999, 899, 800, 699 - Requests for Comments Summary
825 - Request for Comments on Requests for Comments
629 - Scenario for Using the Network Journal
628 - Status of RFC Numbers and a Note on Pre-assigned Journal
Numbers
598, 200, 170, 160, 100, 084 - RFC Index
1h. Bibliographies
829 - Packet Satellite Technology Reference Sources
290 - Computer Network and Data Sharing: A Bibliography
243 - Network and Data Sharing Bibliography
1i. Other
637 - Change of Network Address for SU-DSL
634 - Change in Network Address for Haskins Lab
616 - Latest Network Maps
609 - Statement of Upcoming Move of NIC/NLS Service
590 - MULTICS Address Change
588 - London Node is Now Up
551 - NYU, ANL, and LBL Joining the Net
544 - Locating On-Line Documentation at SRI-ARC
543 - Network Journal Submission and Delivery
518 - ARPANET Accounts
511 - Enterprise Phone Service to NIC From ARPANET Sites
510 - Request for Network Mailbox Addresses
432 - Network Logical Map
423, 389 - UCLA Campus Computing Network Liaison Staff for APRA
Network
421 - A Software Consulting Service for Network Users
419 - MIT-DMS on Vacation
416 - The ARC System will be Unavailable for Use During
Thanksgiving Week
405 - Correction to RFC 404
404 - Host Address Changes Involving Rand and ISI
403 - Desirability of a Network 1108 Service
386 - Letter to TIP Users - 2
384 - Official Site IDENTS for Organizations in the ARPA
Networks
381 - Three Aids to Improved Network Operation
356 - ARPA Network Control Center
334 - Network Use on May 8
305 - Unknown Host Numbers
301 - BBN IMP No. 5 and NCC Schedule for March 4, 1972
276 - NIC Course
249 - Coordination of Equipment and Supplies Purchase
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223 - Network Information Center Schedule for Network Users
185 - NIC Distribution of Manuals and Handbooks
154 - Exposition Style
136 - Host Accounting and Administrative Procedures
118 - Information Required for Each Service Available to the
Network
095 - Distribution of NWG/RFC's Through the NIC
016 - MIT
2. ARPANET Host to Host Protocol
2a. Network Control Protocol
801 - NCP/TCP Transition Plan
773 - Comments on NCP/TCP Mail Service Transition Strategy
714 - A Host/Host Protocol for an ARPANET-type Network
689 - Tenex NCP Finite State Machine for Connections
663 - A Lost Message Detection and Recovery Protocol
636 - TIP/TENEX Reliability Improvements
635 - An Assessment of ARPANET Protocols
534, 516, 512 - Lost Message Detection
492, 467 - Proposed Change to Host-Host Protocol
Resynchronization of Connection Status
489 - Comment on Resynchronization of Connection Status
Proposal
425 - "But my NCP Costs $500 a day..."
210 - Improvement of Flow Control
197 - Initial Connection Protocol - Revised
176 - Comments on Byte Size for Connections
165 - A Proferred Official Initial Connection Protocol
147 - The Definition of a Socket
142 - Time-out Mechanism in the Host-Host Protocol
132, 124, 107, 102 - Output of the Host-Host Protocol Glitch
Cleaning Committee
129 - A Request for Comments on Socket Name Structure
128 - Bytes
117 - Some Comments on the Official Protocol
072 - Proposed Moratorium on Changes to Network Protocol
068 - Comments on Memory Allocation Control Commands (CEASE,
ALL, GVB, RET) and RFNM
065 - Comments on Host-Host Protocol Document Number 1
060 - A Simplified NCP Protocol
059 - Flow Control-Fixed Versus Demand Allocation
058 - Logical Message Synchronization
057, 054 - An Official Protocol Proffering
056 - Third Level Protocol
055 - A Prototypical Implementation of the NCP
050, 049, 048, 047, 046, 045, 044, 040, 039, 038, 036, 033 -
New Host-Host Protocol
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042 - Message Data Types
023 - Transmission of Multiple Control Messages
022 - Host-Host Control Message Formats
018 - Comments Re: Host-Host control link
015 - Network Subsystem for Time Sharing Hosts
011 - Implementation of the Host-Host Software Procedures in
GORDO
009, 001 - Host Software
008 - ARPA Network Functional Specifications
005 - DEL
002 - Links
2b. Initial Connection Protocol
202 - Possible Deadlock in ICP
197 - Initial Connection Protocol - Revised
161 - A Solution to the Race Condition in the ICP
151, 148, 143, 127, 123 - A Proferred Official ICP
150 - The Use of IPC Facilities
145 - Initial Connection Protocol Control Commands
093 - Initial Connection Protocol
080 - Protocol and Data Formats
066 - 3rd Level Ideas and Other Noise
3. Internet Level
3a. Internet Protocol
815 - IP Datagram Reassembly Algorithms
791, 760 - Internet Protocol (IP)
781 - A Specification of the Internet Protocol IP Timestamp
Option
3b. Internet Control Message Protocol
792, 777 - Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
3c. Gateway Protocols
985 - Requirements for Internet Gateways
975 - Autonomous Confederations
970 - On Packet Switches With Infinite Storage
911 - EGP Gateway under Berkeley Unix
904, 890, 888, 827 - Exterior Gateway Protocol
875 - Gateways, Architectures, and Heffalumps
823 - Gateway Gateway Protocol
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3d. Other
986 - Working Draft - Guidelines for the Use of Internet-IP
Addressing in the ISO Connectionless-Mode Network
981 - An Experimental Multiple-Path Routing Algorithm
963 - Some Problems with the Specification of the Military
Standard Internet Protocol
950 - Internet Standard Subnetting Procedure
947 - Multi-Network Broadcasting Within the Internet
940, 917, 925, 932, 936, 922 - Internet Subnets Protocol
925, 917, 826 - Multi-LAN Address Resolution Protocol
919, 922 - Broadcasting Internet Datagrams
891 - DCN Local-Network Protocols
871 - A Perspective on the ARPANET Reference Model
831 - Backup Access to the European Side of SATNET
817 - Modularity and Efficiency in Protocol Implementation
816 - Fault Isolation and Recovery
814 - Name, Addresses, Ports, and Routes
796 - Address Mapping
795 - Service Mappings
730 - Extensible Field Addressing
4. Host Level
4a. User Datagram Protocol
768 - User Datagram Protocol
4b. Transmission Control Protocol
983 - ISO Transport Services on Top of the TCP
964 - Some Problems with the Specification of the Military
Standard Transmission Control Protocol
896 - Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks
889 - Internet Delay Experiments
879 - The TCP Maximum Segment Size and Related Topics
872 - TCP-ON-A-LAN
817 - Modularity and Efficiency in Protocol Implementation
816 - Fault Isolation and Recovery
814 - Name, Addresses, Ports, and Routes
794 - Pre-Emption
793, 761, 675 - Transmission Control Protocol
721 - Out of Band Control Signals in a Host to Host Protocol
700 - A Protocol Experiment
4c. Transaction Protocols and Distributed Operating Systems
955 - Towards a Transport Service for Transaction Processing
Applications
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938 - Internet Reliable Transaction Protocol Functional and
Interface Specification
908 - Reliable Data Protocol
722 - Thoughts on Interactions in Distributed Services
713 - MSDTP -- Message Services Data Transmission Protocol
712 - A Distributed Capability Computing System DCCS
708 - Elements of a Distributed Programming System
707 - A High-Level Framework for Network-Based Resource Sharing
684 - A Commentary on Procedure Calling as A Network Protocol
677 - The Maintenance of Duplicate Databases
674 - Procedure Call Documents--Version 2
672 - A Multi-Site Data Collection Facility
671 - A Note on Reconnection Protocol
645 - Network Standard Data Specification Syntax
615 - Proposed Network Standard Data Pathname Syntax
610 - Further Datalanguage Design Concepts
592 - Some Thoughts on System Design to Facilitate Resource
Sharing
578 - Using MIT-MATHLAB MACSYMA From MIT-DMS Muddle - An
Experiment in Automated Resource Sharing
515 - Specifications for Datalanguage, Version 0/9
500 - The Integration of Data Management Systems on a Computer
Network
441 - Inter-Entity Communication - An Experiment
437 - Data Reconfiguration Service at UCSB
203 - Achieving Reliable Communication
076 - Connection-by-Name: User-Oriented Protocol
062 - A System for Interprocess Communication in a Resource
Sharing Computer Network
061 - A Note on Interprocess Communication in a Resource
Sharing Computer Network
051 - Proposal for a Network Interchange Language
031 - Binary Message Forms in Computer Networks
005 - DEL
001 - Host Software
4d. Other
998, 969 - NETBLT: A Bulk Data Transfer Protocol
988 - Host Extensions for IP Multicasting
979 - PSN End-to-End Functional Specification
966 - A Multicast Extension to the Internet Protocol
869 - Host Monitoring Protocol
741 - Specifications for the Network Voice Protocol NVP
643 - Cross Net Debugger
162 - NETBUGGER3
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5. Application Level
5a. Telnet Protocol
854, 764 - Telnet Protocol Specification
818 - The Remote User Telnet Service
801 - NCP/TCP Transition Plan
782 - A Virtual Terminal Management Model
764 - Telnet Protocol Specification
728 - A Minor Pitfall in the Telnet Protocol
688 - Tentative Schedule for the New Telnet Implementation for
the TIP
681 - Network Unix
600 - Interfacing an Illinois Plasma Terminal to the ARPANET
596 - Second Thoughts on Telnet Go-Ahead
595 - Some Thoughts in Defense of the Telnet Go-Ahead
593 - Telnet and FTP Implementation Schedule Change
576 - Proposal for Modifying Linking
570 - Experimental Input Mapping Between NVT ASCII and UCSB
Online System
562 - Modifications to the Telnet Specification
559 - Comments on the New Telnet Protocol and Its
Implementation
529 - A Note on Protocol Synch Sequences
513 - Comments on the New Telnet Specifications
495 - Telnet Protocol Specification
466 - Telnet Logger/Server for Host LL-67
461 - Telnet Meeting Announcement
452 - Telnet Command at Host LL
435 - Telnet Issues
426 - Reconnection Protocol
393 - Comments on Telnet Protocol Changes
377 - Using TSO Via ARPA Network Virtual Terminal
357 - An Echoing Strategy for Satellite Links
355, 346 - Satellite Considerations
340 - Proposed Telnet Changes
339 - MLTNET - A "Multi-Telnet" Subsystem for TENEX
328 - Suggested Telnet Protocol Changes
318 - Ad Hoc Telnet Protocol
216 - Telnet Access to UCSB's On-Line System
215 - NCP, ICP, and Telnet: The Terminal IMP Implementation
206 - A User Telnet Description of an Initial Implementation
205 - NETCRT - A Character Display Protocol
190 - DEC PDP-10 - IMLAC Communication System
158 - Proposed Telnet Protocol
139 - Discussion of Telnet Protocol
137 - Telnet Protocol - A Proposed Document
135, 110 - Conventions for Using an IBM 2741 Terminal as a User
Console for Access to Network Server Hosts
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103 - Implementation of Interrupt Keys
097 - A First Cut at a Proposed Telnet Protocol
091 - A Proposed User-User Protocol
015 - Network Subsystem for Time Sharing Hosts
5b. Telnet Options
946 - Telnet Terminal Location Number Option
933 - Output Marking Telnet Option
930 - Telnet Terminal Type Option
927 - TACACS User Identification Telnet Option
885 - Telnet End of Record Option
884 - Telnet Terminal Type Option
861 - Telnet Extended Options - List Option
860 - Telnet Timing Mark Option
859 - Telnet Status Option
858 - Telnet Suppress Go Ahead Option
857 - Telnet Echo Option
856 - Telnet Binary Transmission
855 - Telnet Option Specifications
854 - Telnet Protocol Specifications
779 - Telnet Send-Location Option
749 - Telnet SUPDUP-OUTPUT Option
748 - Telnet Randomly-Lose Option
736 - Telnet SUPDUP Option
735 - Revised Telnet Byte Macro Option
734 - SUPDUP Protocol
747 - Recent Extensions to the SUPDUP Protocol
746 - The SUPDUP Graphics Extension
732 - Telnet Data Entry Terminal Option
731 - Telnet Data Entry Terminal Option
729 - Telnet Byte Macro Option
727 - Telnet Logout Option
726 - Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing Telnet Option
719 - Discussion on RCTE
718 - Comments on RCTE from the Tenex Implementation Experience
703, 702, 701 - Survey of New-Protocol Telnet Servers
698 - Telnet Extended ASCII Option
679 - February, 1975, Survey of New-Protocol Telnet Servers
669 - November 1974, Survey of New-Protocol Telnet Servers
659 - Announcing Additional Telnet Options
658 - Telnet Output Line Feed Disposition
657 - Telnet Output Vertical Tab Disposition Option
656 - Telnet Output Vertical Tab Stops Option
655 - Telnet Output Form Feed Disposition Option
654 - Telnet Output Horizontal Tab Disposition Option
653 - Telnet Output Horizontal Tab Stops Option
652 - Telnet Output Carriage Return Disposition Option
651 - Revised Telnet Status Option
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587 - Announcing New Telnet Options
581 - Corrections to RFC 560 - Remote Controlled Transmission
and Echoing Telnet Option
563 - Comments on the RCTE Telnet Option
560 - Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing Telnet Option
5c. File Transfer Protocol
987 - Mapping Between X.400 and RFC 822
959, 542, 354, 265, 172, 114 - The File Transfer Protocol
949 - FTP Unique-Named Store Command
913 - Simple File Transfer Protocol
906 - Bootstrap Loading Using TFTP
822 - Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages
821, 788 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
783, 768, 764 - The TFTP Protocol Revision 2
775 - Directory Oriented FTP Commands
743 - FTP Extension: XRSQ/XRCP
737 - FTP Extension: XSEN
697 - CWD Command of FTP
691 - One More Try on the FTP
686 - Leaving Well Enough Alone
683 - FTPSRV -- Tenex Extension for Paged Files
678 - Document File Format Standards
662 - Performance Improvement in ARPANET File Transfers from
Multics
640 - Revised FTP Reply Codes
630 - FTP Error Code Usage for More Reliable Mail Service
624 - Comments on the File Transfer Protocol
614 - Response to RFC 607 - Comments on the FTP
607 - NIC-21255 Comments on the File Transfer Protocol
573 - Data and File Transfer - Some Measurement Results
571 - Tenex FTP Problem
535 - Comments on File Access Protocol
532 - The UCSD-CC Server-FTP Facility
520 - Memo to FTP Group (Proposal for File Access Protocol)
506 - An FTP Command Naming Problem
505 - Two Solutions to a File Transfer Access Problem
501 - Un-Muddling "Free File Transfer"
487 - Host-Dependent FTP Parameters
486 - Data Transfer Revisited
480 - Host-Dependent FTP Parameters
479 - Use of FTP by the NIC Journal
478 - FTP Server-Server Interaction - II
475 - FTP and the Network Mail System
468 - FTP Data Compression
463 - FTP Comments and Response to RFC 430
458 - Mail Retrieval via FTP
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454 - File Transfer Protocol - Meeting Announcement and a New
Proposed Document
448 - Print Files in FTP
438 - FTP Server-Server Interaction
430 - Comments on File Transfer Protocol
418 - Server File Transfer Under TSS/360 at NASA/Ames Research
Center
414 - File Transfer Protocols (FTP): Status and Further
Comments
412 - User FTP Documentation
385 - Comments on the File Transfer Protocol (RFC 354)
310 - Another Look at Data and File Transfer Protocols
294 - The Use of "Set Data Type" Transaction in the File
Transfer Protocol
281 - A Suggested Addition to File Transfer Protocol
269 - Some Experience with File Transfer
264, 171 - The Data Transfer Protocol
250 - Some Thoughts on File Transfer
242 - Data Descriptive Language for Shared Data
238 - Comments on DTP and FTP Protocols
163 - Data Transfer Protocols
141 - Comments on RFC 114 (A File Transfer Protocol)
133 - File Transfer and Error Recovery
5d. Domain Name System
974 - Mail Routing and the Domain System
973 - Domain System Changes and Observations
953, 811, 810 - HOSTNAME Protocol
921, 897 - Domain Name System Implementation Schedule
920 - Domain Requirements
883 - Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
882 - Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
881 - The Domain Names Plan and Schedule
830 - A Distributed System for Internet Name Service
819 - The Domain Naming Convention for Internet User
Applications
799 - Internet Name Domains
756 - The NIC Name Server -- A Datagram-Based Information
Utility
752 - A Universal Host Table
5e. Mail and Message Systems
994, 983 - PCMAIL: A Distributed Mail System
977 - Network News Transfer Protocol
976 - UUCP Mail Interchange Format Standard
974 - Mail Routing and the Domain System
934 - Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation
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915 - Network Mail Path Service
886 - Proposed Standard for Message Header Munging
850 - Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages
841 - Specification for Message Format for Computer Based
Message Systems
822 - Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages
821 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
806 - Specification for Message Format for Computer Based
Message Systems
780, 772 - Mail Transfer Protocol
786 - Mail Transfer Protocol - ISI TOPS-20 MTP-NIMAIL Interface
785 - Mail Transfer Protocol - ISI TOPS-20 File Definitions
784 - Mail Transfer Protocol - ISI TOPS-20 Implementation
771 - Mail Transition Plan
763 - Role Mailboxes
757 - A Suggested Solution to the Naming, Addressing, and
Delivery Problem for ARPANET Message Systems
754 - Out-of-Net Host Addresses for Mail
753 - Internet Message Protocol
751 - Survey of FTP Mail and MLFL
733 - Standard for the Format of ARPA Network Text Messages
724 - Proposed Official Standard for the Format of ARPA Network
Messages
720 - Address Specification Syntax for Network Mail
706 - On the Junk Mail Problem
680 - Message Transmission Protocol
644 - On the Problem of Signature Authentication for Network
Mail
577 - Mail Priority
574 - Announcement of a Mail Facility at UCSB
561 - Standardizing Network Mail Headers
555 - Responses to Critiques of the Proposed Mail Protocol
539, 524 - A Proposed Mail Protocol
498 - On Mail Service to CCN
491 - What is "Free"?
475 - On FTP and the Network Mail System
458 - Mail Retrieval via FTP
333 - A Proposed Experiment with a Message Switching Protocol
278, 224, 221, 196 - A Mail Box Protocol
5f. Facsimile and Bitmaps
809 - UCL Facsimile System
804 - Facsimile Formats
803 - Dacom 450/500 Facsimile Date Transcoding
798 - Decoding Facsimile Data From the Rapicom 450
797 - Bitmap Formats
769 - Rapicom 450 Facimile File Format
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5g. Graphics
965 - A Format for a Graphical Communication Protocol
553 - Draft Design for a Text/Graphics Protocol
493 - Graphics Protocol
401 - Conversion of NGP-0 Coordinates to Device Specific
Coordinates
398 - UCSB Online Graphics
387 - Some Experiences in Implementing Network Graphics
Protocol Level 0
351 - Information Form for the ARPANET Graphics Resources
Notebook
336 - Level 0 Graphics Input Protocol
296 - DS-1 Display System
292 - Graphics Protocol - Level 0 only
285 - Network Graphics
268 - Graphics Facilities Information
199 - Suggestions for a Network Data-Telnet Graphics Protocol
192 - Some Factors Which a Network Graphics Protocol Must
Consider
191 - Graphics Implementation and Conceptualization at ARC
186 - A Network Graphics Loader
184 - Proposed Graphic Display Modes
181, 177 - A Device Independent Graphical Display Description
178 - Network Graphics Attention Handling
125, 086 - Proposal for a Network Standard Format for a Data
Stream to Control Graphics Display
094 - Some Thoughts on Network Graphics
5h. Data Management
304 - A Data Management System Proposal for the ARPA Network
195 - Data Computers - Data Descriptions and Access Language
194 - The Data Reconfiguration Service - Compiler/Interpreter
Implementation Notes
166 - Data Reconfiguration Service - An Implementation
Specification
144 - Data Sharing on Computer Networks
138 - Status Report on Proposed Data Reconfiguration Service
083 - Language-Machine for Data Reconfiguration
5i. Remote Job Entry
740, 599, 589, 325, 189, 088 - CCN Network Remote Job Entry
Program - NETRJS
725 - An RJE Protocol for a Resource Sharing Network
499 - Harvard's Network RJE
490 - Surrogate RJS for UCLA-CCN
477, 436 - Remote Job Service at UCSB
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407 - Remote Job Entry
368 - Comments on "Proposed Remote Job Entry Protocol"
360 - Proposed Remote Job Entry Protocol
338 - EBCDIC/ASCII Mapping for Network RJE
307 - Using Network Remote Job Entry
283 - NETRJT - Remote Job Service Protocol for TIPS
105 - Network Specification for Remote Job Entry and Remote Job
Output Retrieval at UCSB
5j. Time
958, 957, 956 - Network Time Protocol
868 - Time Server Protocol
867 - Daytime Protocol
778 - DCNET Time Server Protocol
738 - Time Server
685 - Response Time in Cross-network Debugging
034 - Some Brief Preliminary Notes on the ARC Clock
032 - Some Thoughts on SRI's Proposed Real Time Clock
028 - Time Standards
5k. Other
978 - Voice File Interchange Protocol (VFIP)
972 - Password Generator Protocol
954, 812 - Whois Protocol
951 - Bootstrap Protocol
937, 918 - Post Office Protocol
931, 912 - Authentication Service
913 - Simple File Transfer Protocol
909 - Loader Debugger Protocol
891 - DCN Local Net Protocol
887 - Resource Location Protocol
866 - Active Users Protocol
865 - Quote of the Day Protocol
864 - Character Generator Protocol
863, 361, 348 - Discard Protocol
862, 361, 347 - Echo Protocol
821, 822 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
783 - Trivial File Transfer Protocol
767 - Document Formats
759 - Internet Message Protocol
742 - Finger Protocol
734 - SUPDUP Protocol
726 - Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing Telnet Option
666 - Specification of the Unified User-Level Protocol
621 - NIC User Directories at SRI-ARC
569 - Network Standard Text Editor
470 - Change in Socket for TIP News Facility
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451 - Tentative Proposal for a Unified User Level Protocol
098, 079 - Logger Protocol
029 - Note in Response to Bill English's Request for Comments
6. Program Documentation
6a. General
496 - A TNLS Quick Reference Card is Available
494 - Availability of MIX and MIXAL in the Network
488 - NLS Classes at Network Sites
485 - MIS and MIXAL at UCSB
431 - Update on SMFS Login and Logout
411 - New Multics Network Software Features
409 - TENEX Interface to UCSB's Simple-Minded File System
399 - SMFS Login and Logout
390 - TSO Scenario Batch Compilation and Foreground Execution
382 - Mathematical Software on the ARPA Network
379 - Using TSO at CCN
373 - Arbitrary Character Sets
350 - User Accounts for UCSB On-Line System
345 - Interest Mixed Integer Programming (MPSX on 360/91 at
CCN)
321 - CBI Networking Activity at MITRE
317 - Official Host-Host Protocol Modification: Assigned Link
Numbers
311 - New Console Attachments to the UCSB Host
251 - Weather Data
223 - Network Information Center Schedule for Network Users
217 - Specification Changes for OLS, RJE/RJOR, and SMFS
174 - UCLA-Computer Science Graphics Overview
122 - Network Specifications for UCSB's Simple-Minded File
System
121 - Network On-Line Operators
120 - Network PL1 Subprograms
119 - Network FORTRAN Subprograms
074 - Specifications for Network Use of the UCSB On-Line System
7. Network Specific
7a. ARPANET
878, 851, 802 - The ARPANET 1822L Host Access Protocol
852 - The ARPANET Short Blocking Feature
789 - Vulnerabilities of Network Control Protocols: An Example
716 - Interim Revision to Appendix F of BBN 1822
704 - IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol Change
696 - Comments on the IMP/HOST and HOST/IMP Protocol Changes
695 - Official Change in Host-Host Protocol
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692 - Comments on IMP/Host Protocol Changes
690 - Comments on the Proposed Host/IMP Protocol Changes
687 - IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol
667 - BBN Host Ports
660 - Some Changes to the IMP and the IMP/Host Interface
642 - Ready Line Philosophy and Implementation
638, 633 - IMP/TIP Preventive Maintenance Schedule
632 - Throughput Degradation for Single Packet Message
627 - ASCII Text File of Hostnames
626 - On a possible Lockup Condition in IMP Subnet due to
Message Sequencing
625 - On Line Hostnames Service
623 - Comments on On-line Host Name Service
622 - Scheduling IMP/TIP Down Time
620 - Request for Monitor Host Table Updates
619 - Mean Round-Trip Times in the ARPANET
613 - Network Connectivity: A Response to RFC 603
611 - Two Changes to the IMP/Host Protocol
606 - Host Names On-Line
594 - Speedup of Host-IMP Interface
591 - Addition to the Very Distant Host Specification
568, 567 - Cross-Country Network Bandwidth
548 - Hosts Using the IMP Going Down Message Specification
547 - Change to the Very Distant Host Specification
533 - Message-ID Numbers
534 - Lost Message Detection
528 - Software Checksumming in the IMP and Network Reliability
521 - Restricted Use of IMP DDT
508 - Real-Time Data Transmission on the ARPANET
476, 434 - IMP/TIP Memory Retrofit Schedules
449, 442 - The Current Flow-Control Scheme for IMPSYS
447, 445 - IMP/TIP Preventive Maintenance Schedule
417 - LINK Usage Violation
410 - Removal of the 30-second Delay When Hosts Come Up
406 - Scheduled IMP Software Releases
395 - Switch Settings on IMPs and TIPs
394 - Two Proposed Changes to the IMP-HOST Protocol
369 - Evaluation of ARPANET Services (January through March,
1972)
335 - New Interface-IMP/360
312 - Proposed Change in IMP-to-Host Protocol
297 - TIP Message Buffers
280 - A Draft Set of Host Names
274 - Establishing a Local Guide for Network Usage
271 - IMP System Change Notification
270 - Correction to the BBN Report No. 1822
263 - "Very Distant" Host Interface
254 - Scenarios for Using ARPANET Computers
247 - Proffered Set of Standard Host Names
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241 - Connecting Computers to NLC Ports
239 - Host Mnemonics Proposed in RFC 226
237 - The NIC's View of Standard Host Names
236 - Standard Host Names
233 - Standardization of Host Call Letters
230 - Toward Reliable Operation of Minicomputer-based Terminals
on a TIP
229 - Standard Host Names
228 - Clarification
226 - Standardization of Host Mnemonics
218 - Changing the IMP Status Reporting
213 - IMP System Change Notification
209 - Host/IMP Interface Documentation
208 - Address Tables
073, 067 - Proposed Change to Host/IMP Spec to Eliminate
Marking
071 - Reallocation in Case of Input Error
070 - A Note On Padding
064 - Getting Rid of Marking
041 - IMP/IMP Teletype Communication
025 - No High Link Numbers
019 - Two Protocol Suggestions to Reduce Congestion at
Swap-Bound Nodes
017a, 017 - Some Questions Re: HOST-IMP Protocol
012 - IMP-HOST Interface Flow Diagrams
007 - HOST-IMP Interface
006 - Conversation with Bob Kahn
7b. Internet Protocol On Networks
948 - Two Methods for the Transmission of IP Datagrams Over
IEEE 802.3 Networks
907 - Host Access Protocol
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