Network Working Group J. Postel
NWG / Request for Comments: 694 SRI-ARC
June 18, 1975
Protocol Information
Introduction
This file contains information on the various protocols in the ARPA
Network. An effort will be made to keep the information current, but
his depends on the cooperation of the users of this file to convey
any information about protocol developments, or corrections to this
information to Jon Postel at SRI-ARC.
Online address is POSTEL@BBNB; Phone is (415) 326-6200 x 3718;
U.S. Mail address is Stanford Research Institute, Augmentation
Research Center, 222 Ravenswood, Menlo park, California 94025.
This is a compendium of all the protocol related activity and most of
this activity and most of this activity is with experimental
protocols, for those protocols, which are official standards the
designation "[Official]" will be appended to the name.
This protocol information file is online as:
Pathname: [OFFICE-1] <NETINFO.PROTOCOL-INFORMATION.TXT
and also [BBNB] <POSTEL.PROTCOL-INFORMATION.NLS
Much of the documentation of protocols appears as Requests for
Comments (RFCs) and many of these are available online. When a
document is accessible online a pointer to that source will be given.
Also note that recent RFCs are online at Office-1 in directory
<NETINFO> with names of the form RFCnnn.TXT where nnn is replaced by
the RFC number. There is also an index of recent RFCs as an online
file:
[Office-1] <NETINFOR>RFC-INDEX.TXT
There are three other online files that are relevant to protocols:
There is a file that lists Official Host Names and associated
information as described in RFC 608, the pathname of this file is:
[Office-1] <NETOINFO>HOSTS.TXT
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RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 There are two files that list the addresses of the Network Liaisons, one file lists the online message address, and the other the US Mail address and phone number. A network liaison is a person designated by a host organization as the contact and coordinator for network technical information fro that organization. [Office-1] <NETINFO>LIAISON-SNDMSG.TXT [Office-1] <NETINFO>LIAISON.TXT These files are prepared by Jake Feinler of the Network Information Center (NIC). Indeed the NIC has been very helpful in providing the online file space for the recent Request for Comments, and other protocol related files. The NIC also maintains the hardcopy reference library of all RFCs. The NIC has assembled and filed with the National Technical information Service the collection of documents known as "ARPA Network Current Network Protocols". This collection represents the more or less "official" protocols as of 1-December-74. The accession number is ADA003890. IMP-IMP surface Contact: Alex McKenzie (MCKENZIE@BBN) Documents: Heart, F. et. al. "the Interface Message Processor for the ARPA Computer Network," AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 36:551-567, SJCC 1970. McQuillan, J.M. et. al. "Improvements in the Design and Performance of the ARPA Network," AFIPs Conference Proceedings, 41:741-754 RFCC, 1972. McQuillan, J.M. "Throughput in the ARPA network - Analysis and Measurement," BBN Report 2491, the text is also contained in BBN Quarterly Technical Report 16, available from the National Technical Information Service [NTIS] accession number AD7544441. Postel [Page 2]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 People: John McQuillan (MCQUILLAN@BBN) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: Satellite Contact: Randy Rettberg (RETTBERG@BBN) Documents: People: Robert Kahn (KAHN@ISI) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: IMP-HOST IMP-HOST [Official] Contact: Alex McKenzie (MCKENZIE@BBN) Documents: "Specification for the Interconnection of a HOST and an IMP," BBN Report 1822, Revised December 1974. NTIS: ADA002751. People: Alex McKenzie (MCKENZIE@BBN) Dave Walden (WALDEN@BBN) Postel [Page 3]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Jerry Burchfiel (BURCHFIEL@BBN) John McQuillan (MCQUILLAN@BBN) Schedule: Comments: The "link number" field has been extended from 8 to 12 bits and renamed the "message identification" field. Message type 6 now is used to indicate a reason for at type 7 (destination dead) message. (See BBN1822). There has been some recent changes to the Ready line interpretation by the IMP for deciding the alive/dead status of a host. Important changes to the IMP and IMP/HOST Interface announced in RFC 660 23-Oct-74. (31-DEC-74) The change to allow up to eight messages to be in transit between a source host and destination host should be made very soon. This should not effect the hosts at all except to provide better thruput and fewer inter-message delays. (6-JAN-75) BBN Report 1822 updated. Sections 1, 2, 4, and 5, and Appendix C now include data on the Pluribus IMP. The Pluribus IMP is based on a modular mutliprocessor hardware design; it should be capable of much higher bandwidth and greater reliability than other IMP models. Section 3.1 contains additional information, which may be helpful to Host programmers. Section 3.3 and 3.4 add a new type of Host to Host data message, the uncontrolled packet. Section 3.7 has been added to describe the use of this new message type. Section 3.4 describes changes to the sub-types of IMP to host message types 6 and 7. Appendix A has been updated. Postel [Page 4]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Appendix B has been expanded to provide specific recommendations for Host implementation of the Host/IMP Interface. Minor clarifications have been made in Appendix F. (No changes have been made to Figure F - (or F-9.) Recent developments: (18-June-75) Very important changes to the Host to IMP and IMP to Host interface protocol are proposed (specified?) in a recent note. The areas changed include: expanded leader size, expanded address field, new message length field, expanded handling type field, source host control of packets per message, change in the handling of unordered messages (current type 3 messages), change in the addressing of fake hosts, including an address field in the IMP/Host hop message, (best of all) backward compatibility, and a possible change in the maximum message length. Walden, D. "IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol Change," RFC 687, NIC 32654, 2-Jun-75. [OPfficed-1] <NETINFOR>RFC687.TXT (18-Jun-75) Comments on the changes proposed by Walden in RFC 687: Postel, J. "Comments on the proposed Host/IMP Protocol Changes," RFC 690, NIC 32699, 6-Jun-75. HOST-HOST ncp - standard host-to-host [Official] Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBN) Documents: McKenzie, A. "Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network," NIC 8246, NTIS: AD757680, Jan 1972. Postel, J. "Assigned Link Numbers," RFC 604, NIC 21186, 26- Dec-73. Postel [Page 5]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 People: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Alex McKenzie (MCKENZIE@BBN) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: ncp - host-to-host [Experimental] Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: McKenzie, A. "host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network," NIC 8246, NTIS: AD757680, Jan 1972. Postel, J. "Assigned link Numbers," RFC 604, NIC 21186, 26-Dec-73. Burchfiel, et. al. "Tip-Tenex Reliability Improvements" RFC 636 NIC 30490 June 1974. People: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Alex McKenzie (MCKENZIE@BBN) Jerry Burchfiel (BURCHFIEL@BBN) Dave Walden (WALDEN@BBN) Schedule: Comments: The BBN TIP and TENEX groups have specified and are implementing additional protocol commands with the intention of providing better reliability and survivability over system Postel [Page 6]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 malfunctions. The additional protocol commands are for cleaning up partly closed connections and resynchronizing the allocation values on open connections (see RFC 636). (31-DEC-74) Tenex 1.32 and the Tips are now running this protocol. Recent developments: ncp - host-to-host [Experimental] Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: McKenzie, A. "Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network," NIC 8246, [NTIS # AD-757 680], Jan 1972 Postel, J. "Assigned Link Numbers," RFC604, NIC211685, 26-Dec- 73. Kanodia, R. "A Lost Message Detection and Recovery Protocol," RFC 663, NIC 31387, 29-Nov-74. [OFFICE-1] <NETINFO>RFC663.TXT People: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Alex McKenzie (MCKENZIE@BBN) Raj Kanodia (Kanodia.CompNet@MIT-Multics) Schedule: Comments: (31-DEC-74) This recent proposal is interesting in several features, but some have suggested that is aimed at a non- problem. Recent developments: msp - Message Switching Protocol Postel [Page 7]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Contact: Dave Walden (WALDEN@BBN) Documents: Walden, D. "A System for Interprocess Communication in a Resource Sharing Computer Network, " RFC 62, NIC 4962, 3-Aug- 70. Also published in Communications of the ACM volume 15, number 4, April 1972. Bressler, B. "A Proposed Experiment with a Message Switching Protocol, " RFC 333, NIC 9926, 15-May-72. People: Dave Walden (WALDEN@BBN) Bob Bressler (BRESSLER@BBN) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: tcp - Transmission Control Protocol Contact: Vint Cert (CERF@ISI) Documents: Cert, V. and R,. Kahn. "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication," IEEE Transactions on Communication Vol COM- 22 No 5, May 1974. Mader, E. "A Protocol Experiment," RFC 700, NIC 31020. [OFFICE-1] <NETINFO> RFC700.TXT Cerf, V. Y. Dalal, and C. Sunshine. "Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program," RFC 675, INWG 72, NIC 31505, December 1974 Revision. People: Postel [Page 8]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Vint Cerf (CERF@ISI) Ray Tomilnson (TOMLINSON@BBN) Peter Kirstein (KIRSTEIN@ISI) Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBN) Schedule: Some experiments now running. Implementation of full protocol to begin by 1-Jan-75. Comments: Specification completed August 4th, but some work still in progress on handling of single message conversations. A new sequencing scheme (proposed by Tomlinson) may be utilized. The addressing field is now used as 4 bit format, 4 bit network, 16 bit TCP, and 24 bit process&port. Crocker has suggested a 64 bit path address to be parsed and reformatted by the gateways along the route. There is reluctance to experiment with too many things at once though. (28-Oct-74) A file indicating some of the changes in the specifications since the 4-Aug-74 document is now available as [ISI] <CRF> TCP- CHANGES. The areas of change are "Initial Sequence Number", "Socket definition", "Additional User System Calls", "Packet Format", and "Discussion of opening and closing (SYN, REL)". (23-NOV-74) Specifications for test implementation are now said to be ready on 1-DEC-74, and an implementation completed by 1- FEB-74. (31-DEC-74) New specification document available: Cerf, V. Y. Dalal, and C. Sunshine. "Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program," RFC 675, INWG 72, NIC 31505, December 1974 Revision. Postel [Page 9]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Recent developments: (30-May-75) Status of TCP development. The BBN version is running at BBN-TENEXA, but simulates a lot of JSYS calls which will be cast into the tenex operating system during the summer. The SU-DSL version for the PDP-11/20 is in the debugging stage. The UCL (London) version for a PDP-9 is in the coding stage. We are continuing with the "three-way handshake" version which is highly reliable in environments which permit packets to be delivered on the order of hours later than they were injected into the connected networks. A simple TCP is being designed for the packet radio network and does not use three-way handshake since waiting a second or so to clear out old packets in not serious. A test plan for packet radio net, arpanet, and atlantic satellite networks is in preparation (delivery date 1 August 1975). Recent international agreements indicate that a form of TCP with a simpler header (144 bits instead of 256 bits) and no three-way handshake is the most likely international standard. An IFIP WG 6.1 Recommendation to CCITT stated that the maximum packet delay through all concatenated networks should not exceed 30 seconds. nvp - Network Voice Protocol Contact: Danny Cohen (COHEN@ISIB) Documents: "Specifications for the Network Voice Protocol (NVP)" NSC Note 43. People: Schedule: Comments: Specification document available (10-Oct-74). Postel [Page 10]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 (20-JAN-75) An initial version of NVP was implemented for real-time voice experiments between ISI and Lincoln Laboratory in August 1974. An expanded version has been in operation since December 1974 for real-time voice communication between Lincoln and CHI. NVP uses both type 0 and type 3 IMP-Host messages, and allows increased bandwidth and decreased delays at the cost of reliability. Recent developments: packet radio Contact: Robert Kahn (KAHN@ISI) Documents: People: Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: Network Debugging Protocol Contact: Eric Mader (MADER@BBN) Documents: Mader, E. "Network Debugging Protocol," RFC 643, NIC 30873, July-74. Beeler, M. "Response Time in Cross-network Debugging," RFC 685, NIC 32298, 16-April-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO> RFC685.TXT People: Michael Beeler (BEELER@BBN) Eric Mader (MADER@BBN) Postel [Page 11]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Dave Retz (RETZ@ISI) Ken Victor (VICTOR@BBNB) Schedule: Comments: This is a protocol for a PDP-11 cross-network debugger. Recent Developments: (15-May-75) A measure of the responsiveness of cross-network debugging has been reported in: Beeler, M. "Response Time in Cross-network Debugging," RFC 685, NIC 32298, 16-April-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC685.TXT pup - PARC Universal Protocol Contact: Ed Taft (TAF@PARC) Documents: People: Ed Taft (TAFT@PARC) Bob Metcalfe (METCALFE@PARC) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments (15-May-75) Link 151 (decimal) assigned. HOST-FRONTED Host-Front End Contact: Postel [Page 12]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Michael Padlipsky (Padlipsky@MIT-Multics) Documents: Padlipsky, M. "A Proposed Protocol for Connecting Host Computers to ARPA-Like Networks via Front-End Processors," RFC 647, NIC 31117, 12-Nov-74. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC647.TXT People: Michael Padlipsky (Padlipsky@MIT-Multics) Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Schedule: Comments: This is a suggested simple protocol for connecting host to front end computers, which are in turn connected to the network. Recent developments: PROCESS-PROCESS ICP - Initial Connection Protocol [Official] Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Postel, J. "Official Initial Connection Protocol," NIC 7101, 11-June-71. Wolfe, S. [no title] RFC 202, NIC 7155, 26-July-71. Postel, J. "Official Telnet-Logger Initial Connection Protocol," NIC 7103, 15-June-71. People: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Postel [Page 13]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: Telnet Old Telnet Contact: Jon Postel: (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Postel, J. "Telnet Protocol," RFC 318 3-April-72. People: Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: New Telnet [Official] Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: NIC 18639 "TELNET Protocol Specifications" AUG 73 NIC 18640 "Telnet Option Specification" Aug 73 Telnet Options 0 Transmit Binary "Binary Transmission," NIC 15389 1 Echo "Echo," NIC 15390 Postel [Page 14]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 2 Reconnection "Reconnection," NIC 15391 3 Suppress Go Ahead "Suppress Go Ahead Option," NIC 15392. 4 Negotiate Approximate Message Size "Approximate Message Size Negotiation," NIC 5 Status Crocker, D. "Status," RFC 651, NIC 31154, 25-Oct-74. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC651.TXT 6 Timing Mark "Timing Mark," NIC 16238. 7 Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing Crocker, D. "Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing," NIC 19859, 1-Nov-73. 8 Negotiate About Output Line Width Walden, D. "Output Line Width," NIC 20196, 13-Nov-73. 9 Negotiate About Output Page Size Walden, D. "Output Page Size," NIC 20197, 13-Nov-73. 10 Output Carriage Return Disposition Crocker, D. "Output Carriage Return Disposition," RFC 652, NIC 31155, 25-Oct-74. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC652.TXT 11 Output Horizontal Tab Stops Crocker, D. "Output Horizontal Tab Stops," RFC 653, NIC 31156, 25-Oct-74. Postel [Page 15]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC653.TXT 12 Output Horizontal Tab Disposition Crocker, D. "Output Horizontal Tab Disposition," RFC 654, NIC 31157, 25-Oct-74. 13 Output Formfeed Disposition Crocker, D. "Output Form Feed Disposition," RFC 655, NIC 31158, 25-Oct-74. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC655.TXT 14 Output Vertical Tab Stops Crocker, D. "Output Vertical Tab Stops," RFC 656, NIC 31159, 25-Oct-74. 15 Output Vertical Tab Disposition Crocker, D. "Output Vertical Tab Disposition," RFC 657, NIC 31160, 25-Oct-74. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC657.TXT 16 Output Linefeed Disposition Crocker, D. "Output Line Feed Disposition," RFC 658, NIC 31161, 25-Oct-74. [Office -1] <NETINFO>RFC658.TXT 255 Extended Options List "Extended Options List," NIC 16239. People: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBN) Alex McKenzie (MCKENZIE@BBN) Doug Dodds (DODDS@BBN) Dave Crocker (DCROCKER@ISI) Schedule: Postel [Page 16]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 All Hosts were to have been running the new Telnet (both user and server) by 1 January 1974. Comments: Note: the server program is to be available on socket 23 decimal (27 octal). The Status Option has been revised to take advantage of the subcommand feature and to reduce the amount of data transmitted to report the option status. Seven new options have been defined to allow control of the format effectors Carriage Return, Line Feed, Form Feed, Horizontal Tab, and Vertical Tab. (31-DEC-74) Rick Schantz has made some suggestions regarding the Reconnection Option in: Schantz, R. "A Note on Reconnection Protocol," RFC 671, NIC 31439, 6-Dec-74. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC671.TXT Recent developments: (15-May-75) The latest survey of Telnet Server status by Doug Dodds is: Dodds, D. "February, 1975, Survey of New-Protocol Telnet Servers," RFC 679, NIC 31890, 21-Feb-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC669.TXT (18-Jun-75) A schedule for implementation of New Telnet in the TIP has been published: Walden, D. "Tentative Schedule for the New Telnet Implementation for the TIP," RFC 688, NIC 32655, 4-Jun-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC688.TXT FTP Old File Transfer Contact: Postel [Page 17]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: McKenzie, A. "File Transfer Protocol," NIC 14333, RFC 454, 16- Feb-73. Clements, R. "FTPSRV - Extensions for Tenex Paged Files, "RFC 683, NIC 32251, 3-April-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC683.TXT Harvey, B. "One More Try on the FTP," RFC 691, NIC 32700, 6- Jun-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC691.TXT People: Nancy Neigus (NEIGUS@BBN) Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBN) Alex McKenzie (MCKENZIE@BBN) Robert Clements (CLEMENTS@BBN) Brian Harvey (BH@SU-AI) Schedule: Comments: (31-DEC-74) Kanodia has published an RFC on performance measurements of FTP at Multics, which shows the important effect of Host buffering in constraining thruput. Kanodia, R. "Performance Improvement in ARPANET File Transfers From Multics," RFC662, NIC 31386, 26-Nov-74. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC662.TXT Recent developments: (15-May-75) The Tenex FTP implementation has been extended to transfer paged files as described in: Postel [Page 18]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Clements, R. "FTPSRV - Extensions for Tenex Pages Files," RFC 683, NIC 32251, 3-April-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC683.TXT (18-Jun-75) Brian Harvey has suggested that old FTP is good enough, that it is in wide use, so lets just fix the bugs instead of implementing new FTP. His suggested bug fixes are also included in his RFC: Harvey, B. "One More Try on the FTP," RFC 691, NIC 32700, 6- Jun-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC691.TXT New File Transfer Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Neigus, N. "File Transfer Protocol," NIC 17759 RFC 542 12- July-73. Postel, J. "Revised FTP Reply Codes," NIC 30843 RFC 640 5- June-74. People: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Nancy Neigus (NEIGUS@BBN) Ken Pogran (Pogran.CompNet@MIT-Multics) Wayne Hathaway (Hathaway@AMES-67) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: Pathnames Contact: Postel [Page 19]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Crocker, D. "Network Standard Data Specification Syntax," RFC 645, NIC 30899, Jul-74. People: Dave Crocker (DCROCKER@ISI) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: File Access Protocol Contact: Jon Day (Day.CAC@MIT-Multics) Documents: Day, J. "Memo to FTP Group: File Access Protocol," RFC 520, NIC 16819, 25-Jun-73. People: Ken Pogran (Pogran.CompNet@MIT-Multics) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: File formats Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Postel, J. "Standard File Formats," RFC 678, NIC 31524, 19- Dec-74. Postel [Page 20]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC678.TXT People: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Schedule: Comments: (31-DEC-74) This new format standard for document file was published: Postel, J. "Standard File Formats," RFC678, NIC 31524, 19- Dec-74. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC678.TXT Recent developments: Mail Current Mail Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Page 26 of RFC 454 (see old file transfer). Myer, T. "Message Transmission Protocol," RFC 680, NIC 32116, 30-April-75. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC680.TXT Sussman, J. "FTP Error Code Usage for More Reliable Mail Service," RFC 630, NIC 30237, 10-Apr-74. Thomas, B. "On the problem of Signature Authentication for Network Mail," RFC 644, NIC 30874, 22-July-74. People: Ted Meyer (MYER@BBN) Austin Henderson (HENDERSON@BBN) Postel [Page 21]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Julie Sussman (SUSSMAN@BBN) Bob Thomas (THOMAS@BBN) Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Schedule: Comments: Concern over the authentication of the author of network messages has lead to the concept of an authorized mail sending process (see RFC 644). Recent developments: (15-May-75) The standard formats for mail header information fields have been extended as documented in: Myer, T. "Message Transmission Protocol," RFC 680, NIC 32116, 30-April-75. Proposed Mail Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: White, J. "A Proposed Mail Protocol," RFC 524, NIC 17140, 13- Jun-73. Crocker, D. "Thoughts on the Mail Protocol Proposed in RFC 524," RFC 539, NIC 17644, 7-JULY-73. White, J. "Response to Critiques of the Proposed Mail Protocol," RFC 555, NIC 17993, 27-July-73. Crocker, D. "Mail Priority," RFC 577, NIC 19356, 18-Oct-73. People: Jim White (JWHITE@BBNB) Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Dave Crocker at UCLA-NMC (DCROCKER@ISI) Postel [Page 22]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: RJE - Remote Job Entry Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Bressler, B. "Remote Job Entry Protocol," RFC 407, NIC 12112, 16-Oct- 72. Krilanovich, M. "Announcement of RJS at UCSB," RFC 436, NIC 13700, 10-Jan-73. People: Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: RJS - CCNs Remote Job Service Contact: Robert Braden (BRADEN@UCLA-CCN) Documents: Braden, R. "Interim NETRJS Specification," RFC 189, NIC 7133, 15- July-71. Harslem, E. "Using Network Remote Job Entry," RFC 307, NIC 9258, 24- Feb-72. Braden, R. "Update on NETRJS," RFC 599, NIC 20854, 13-Dec-73. Crocker, D. "CCNRJS: Remote Job Entry between Tenex and UCLA- CCN," NUTS Note 22, 5-Mar-75. [ISI] <DOCUMENTATION>CCNRJS.DOC Postel [Page 23]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 People: Robert Braden (BRADEN@UCLA-CCN) Steve Wolfe (WOLFE@UCLA-CCN) Dave Crocker (DCROCKER@ISI) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: Graphics Contact: Robert Spoull (SPROULL@PARC-MAXC) Documents: Sproull, R. and E. Thomas. "A Networks Graphics Protocol," NIC 24308, 16-Aug-74. People: Robert Sproull (SPROULL@PARC-MAXC) Elaine Thomas (Thomas@MIT-Multics) James Michener (JCM@MIT-DMS) Schedule: Comments: Document available from Robert Sproull. Recent developments: Data Reconfiguration Service Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Postel [Page 24]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Anderson, B. "Status Report on Proposed Data Reconfiguration Service," RFC 138, NIC 6715, 28-April-71. Feah, "Data Reconfiguration Service at UCSB," RFC 437, NIC 13701, 30- June-74. People: Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: RSEXEC - The Resource Sharing Executive Contact: Robert Thomas (THOMAS@BBN) Documents: Thomas, R. "A Resource Sharing Executive For the ARPANET," AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 42;155-163, NCC, 1973. People: Robert Thomas (THOMAS@BBN) Schedule: Comments: The TIPs and some RSEXEC servers now are cooperating to perform TIP user authentication and accounting functions. Recent developments: Line Processor Protocol Contact: Don Andrews (ANDREWS@BBNB) Documents: [BBNB] <LP>MCS4.NLS Postel [Page 25]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Andrews, D. "Line Processor - A Device for Amplification of Display Terminal Capabilities for Text Manipulation," AFIPS Conference Proceedings, 43:257-265, NCC, 1974. People: Martin Hardy (HARDY@BBNB) Don Andrews (ANDREWS@BBNB) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: PROGRAMS Neted - Network Standard Editor [Official] Contact: Michael Padlipsky (Padlipsky@MIT-Mulitics) Documents: Padlipsky, M. "NETED: A Common Editor for the ARPA Network," RFC 569, NIC 18972, 15-Oct-73. People: Michale Padlipsky (Padlipsky@MIT-Multics) Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Wayne Hathaway (HATHAWAY@AMES-67) Schedule: Comments: Recent developments: UULP - Unified User-Level Protocol Contact: Michael Padlipsky (Padlipsky@MIT-Multics) Postel [Page 26]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Documents: Padlipsky, M. "Specification of a Unified User-Level Protocol," RFC 666, NIC 31396, 26-Nov-73. [Office-1] <NETINFO>RFC666.TXT People: Michael Padlipsky (Padlispksy@MIT-Multics) Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Schedule: Comments: Also know as Common Command Language (CCL). Recent developments: NATIONAL SOFTWARE WORKS The national Software Works (NSW) is developing a set of protocols for its use of the ARPA Network, other uses of these protocols is encouraged. The Distributed Programming System (DPS) is intended to facilitate the sharing of resources in the network at the subroutine level. The Distributed Programming System will be used to split NLS into a front end and back end components. Distributed Programming system is also to be used in the NSW and the basis for communication between the Works Manager, the Tool Bearing Hosts, and Front End procedure packages. The documents cited below give a view of the Distributed Programming System and its use. Contact: Jim White (JWHITE@BBNB) Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Postel [Page 27]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Documents: The documents cited here represent the state of the protocol in January-75, much as changed since that time that has not been adequately documented, therefore, these documents should be viewed as generally descriptive not specifically definitive. Each is available online in two forms: as an NLS file and as a formatted text file. The Journal number (e.g., 24459) refers to the former, of course and the pathname (e.g., [BBNB] <NLS>PCP.TXT) to the latter, accessible via FTP using username=ANONYMOUS and password=GUEST (no account required). In addition, these documents are available from Jon Postel in hardcopy. PCP (24459,) "The Procedure Call Protocol" This document describes the virtual programming environment provided by PCP, and the inter-process exchanges that implement it. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PCP.TXT PIP (24460,) "The Procedure Interface Package" This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP and that serves as procedure-call-level interface to PCP proper. It includes procedures for calling, resuming, interrupting, and aborting remote procedures. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PIP.TXT PSP (24461,) "The PCP Support Package" This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP and that augments PCP proper, largely in the area of data store manipulation. It includes procedures for obtaining access to groups of remote procedures and data stores, manipulating remote data stores, and creating temporary ones. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PSP.TXT Postel [Page 28]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 PMP (24462,) "The Process Management Package" This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP and that provides the necessary tools for interconnecting two or more processes to form a multi- process system (e.g., NSW). It includes procedures for creating, deleting, logically and physically interconnecting processes, and for allocating and releasing processors. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PMP.TXT PCPFMT (24576,) "PCP Data Structure Formats" This document defines formats for PCP data structures, each of which is appropriate for one or more physical channel types. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PCPFMT.TXT PCPHST (24577,) "PCP ARPANET Inter-Host IPC Implementation" This document defines an implementation, appropriate for mediating communication between Tenex forks, of the IPC primitives required by PCP. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PCPHST.TXT PCPFRK (24578,) "PCP Tenex Inter-Fork IPC Implementation" This document defines an implementation, appropriate for mediating communication between processes on different hosts within the ARPANET, of the IPC primitives required by PCP. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PCPFRK.TXT PCPTNXINT (24792,) "Tenex PCP Process internal Structure" This document defines the internal structure of a PCP process implemented to run on Tenex, and as such serves as a process implementer's guide. It describes the process' fork structure, the role and composition of each fork, and the manner in which the various forks interact with one another; indicates which components are supplied with PCP and which are the responsibility of the process implementer; and describes the manner in which the components are assembled at load time. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PCPTNXINT.TXT Postel [Page 29]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 HOST (24581,) "NSW Host Protocol" This document describes the host level protocol used in the NSW. The protocol is a slightly constrained version of the standard ARPANET host to host protocol. The constraints affect the allocation, RFNM wait, and retransmission policies. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>HOST.TXT EXEC (24580,) "The Executive Package" This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP. It includes procedures and data stores for user identification, accounting, and usage information. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>EXEC.TXT FILE (24582,) "The File Package" This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP. It includes procedures and data stores for opening, closing, and listing directories, for creating, deleting, and renaming files, and for transferring the files and file elements between processes. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>FILE.TXT FILE-APP (24813,) "The File Package Appendix" This appendix contains some comments on implementation strategy. The thrust is to argue that the file package as specified is near minimal and that the conversion between the PCP format and the internal storage format can be encapsulated into a few subroutines. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>FILE-APP.TXT BATCH (24583,) "The Batch Job Package" This document describes a package that urns in the setting provided by PCP. It includes procedures for creating and deleting batch jobs, obtaining the status of a batch job, and communicating with the operator of a batch processing host. This package is implemented at the host that provides the batch processing facility. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>BATCH.TXT Postel [Page 30]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 LLDBUG (24579,) "The Low-Level Debug Package" This document describes a package that runs in the setting provided by PCP. It includes procedures for a remote process to debug at the assembly-language level, any processes known to the local process. The package contains procedures for manipulating and searching the process' address space, for manipulating and searching its symbol tables, and for setting and removing breakpoints from its address space. Its data stores hold process characteristics and state information, and the contents of program symbol tables. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS.LLDBUG.TXT RJE-MODEL (24655,) "The NSW Remote Job Entry Model" This document discusses the process of utilizing a batch processing facility to complete a programming task in the NSW environment. This same activity in another environment might utilize a remote job entry system. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>RJE-MODEL.TXT TBH (24656,) "NSW Requirements on Tool Rearing Hosts" This document discusses the environment needed in the tool bearing host and the interfaces to the operating system components by various PCP packages. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>TBH.TXT NVTP (24827,) "The Network Virtual Terminal Package" The Network Virtual Terminal Package (package name = NVTP) contains the procedures interfacing PCP procedure calls to terminal oriented input and output character streams as defined by the ARPANET Telnet protocol. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>NVTP.TXT NTP (25008,) "The NSW Tool Package" This document describes the procedures and data stores required of a process for use as a tool within the NSW. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>NTP.TXT Postel [Page 31]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 NSWSTRUC (25009,) "NSW Process Structure" This document describes the structure of the PCP process tree used in the NSW. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>NSWSTRUC.TXT PCPV2CHANGES (25062,) "PCP Inter-Version (2-3) Documentation" This document describes the divergence from the Version 2 documentation in the implementation and current thinking. Pathname: [BBNB] <NLS>PCPV2CHANGES.TXT People: Jim White (JWHITE@BBNB) Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Steve Warshall (WARSHALL@BBNB) Robert Millstein (MILLSTEIN@BBNB) Dick Mandell (MANDELL@ISIB) Elizabeth Michael (MICHAEL@BBNB) Dave Maynard (MAYNARD@BBNB) Charles Irby (IRBY@BBNB) Ken Victor (VICTOR@BBNB) Schedule: A demonstration of the National Software Works is to be performed in summer 1975. Comments: (31-DEC-74) The following are the latest documents: PCPFRK (24578,) "PCP Tenex Inter-Fork IPC Implementation" FILE-APP (24813,) "The File Package Appendix" RJE-MODEL (24655,) "The NSW Remote Job Entry Model" Postel [Page 32]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 TBH (24656,) "NSW Requirements on Tool Bearing Hosts" NVTP (24827,) "The Network Virtual Terminal Package" (21-JAN-75) The following are the latest documents: NTP (25008,) "The NSW Tool Package" NSWSTRUC (25009,) "NSW Process Structure" PCPV2CHANGES (25062,) "PCP Inter-Version (2-3) Documentation" Recent developments: (15-May-75) Significant changes in design and initial scope have altered the implementation of the Distributed Programming System from the design presented in these documents, the documents still serve to give the flavor of the intended system, but no longer are a reliable guide to the details of the actual implementation. (18-Jun-75) The L10 source code of the Tenex implementation is available online as: [BBNB] <NLS>C2DPS.TXT (18-Jun-75) A description of the user interface to DPS in Tenex is available online as: [BBNB] <JWHITE>DPSJSYS.TXT (18-Jun-75) A description of the Works Manager procedures is available online as: [BBNB] <MILLSTEIN>WM-PROCEDURES.TXT (18-Jun-75) A set of memos describing the interface to the B4700 batch system is available online as: [BBNB] <MUNTZ>BMEMO.n where n is in the range 1 thru 12. (18-Jun-75) A description of the file package is available online as: [BBNB] <NLS>25850.TXT Postel [Page 33]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 (18-Jun-75) A description of the 8 bit binary communication format is available online as: [BBNB]25966.TXT ADDRESS ASSIGNMENTS Assigned Links Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Link Assignments: Decimal Octal Use 0 0 Control Messages 1 1 Reserved 2-71 2-107 Regular Messages 72-151 110-227 Reserved 152 230 PARC Universal Protocol 153 231 TIP Status Reporting 154 232 TIP Accounting 155-158 233-236 Internet Protocol 159-191 237-277 Measurements 192-195 300-303 Message Switching Protocol 196-255 304-255 Experimental Protocols People: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Schedule: Comments: Numbers issued by Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB). Recent developments: (15-May-75) Link 151 (decimal) assigned for the PARC Universal Protocol. Assigned Sockets: Postel [Page 34]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975 Contact: Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB) Documents: Socket Assignments: General Assignments: Decimal Octal Use 0-63 0-77 Network Wide Standard Function 64-127 100-177 Hosts Specific Functions 128-223 200-337 Reserved for Future Use 224-255 340-377 Any Experimental Function Specific Assignments: Decimal Octal Use 1 1 Old Telnet 3 3 Old File Transfer 5 5 Remote Job Entry 7 7 Echo 9 11 Discard 11 13 Who is on or SYSTAT 13 15 Date and Time 15 17 Who is up or NETSTAT 17 21 Short Text Message 19 23 Character generator TTYTST 21 25 New File Transfer 23 27 New Telnet 25 31 Distributed Programming System 65 101 Speech Data Base at LL-TX-2 67 103 Datacomputer at CCA 69 105 CPYTNET 71 107 NETRJS (EBCDIC) at UCLA-CCN 73 111 NETRJS (ASCII) at UCLA-CCN 75 113 NETRJS (TTY) at UCLA-CCN 77 115 any private RJE server 232-237 350-355 Authorized Mailer at BBN 239 357 Graphics 241 361 NCP Measurement 243 363 Survey Measurement 245 365 LINK 247 367 TIPSRV 249-255 371-377 RSEXEC People: Postel [Page 35]
RFC 694 Protocol Information June 18, 1975
Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB)
Nancy Neigus (NEIGUS@BBN)
Schedule:
Comments:
Numbers issued by Jon Postel (POSTEL@BBNB)
(31-DEC-74) Socket 25 (31 octal) assigned to Distributed
Programming System.
Recent developments:
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