- On 8 May 1970, a Network Working Group meeting was hosted at Lincoln Labs.
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- The topics under discussion were:
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1) Lincoln Lab's Local Interaction Language (LIL)
2) Records, Messages, and Format in HOST-HOST information exchange.
3) Miscellaneous gripes
- The first topic is thoroughly summarized in Lincoln Lab's Semi annual
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- Technical Summary titled "Graphics", dated May 31, 1970 (document id.
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- ESD-TR-70-151).
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- The second topic involved considerable discussion of NWG/RFC #42 in which
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- it was proposed that all messages be preceded by an 8-bit type byte which
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- would declare the format of the message which followed.
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- The following decisions were reached:
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a) Records may begin anywhere within a message.
b) The first 8 bits of a record are reserved for type information.
c) The first transmission on a connection starts a record.
- Type 0 is agreed to mean that the transmission that follows consists of an
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- arbitrarily long record, and that no further type bytes will be present.
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- The notions of messages and records are independent of the flow-control
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- protocol. Thus the receipt of a message does not carry any semantic
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- importance. The receipt of a record, however, may initiate some interpre-
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- tation process.
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- After some discussion, the proposals in NWG/RFC #42 were permuted as follows:
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type 0 = bit string of arbitrary length follows
type 1 = 8-bit ASCII follows
type 2 = EBCDIC follows
type 3 = MOD 33 TTY 7-bit ASCII
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type 4 = YOUR Local
followed by another type byte
type 5 = MY Local
followed by another type byte
- The praise or blame for the preceding decisions rests on the attendees at
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- the meeting, to wit:
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- E. Ancona (LL)
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- T. J. Barkalow (LL)
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- D. B. Black (Harvard)
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- Jack Bouknight (UI)
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- Howard Brodie (MAC)
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- Vint Cerf (UCLA)
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- Steve Crocker (UCLA)
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- Jim Curry (UTAH)
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- A. Evans (LL, MAC)
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- Robert Flegal (UTAH)
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- Jim Frogie (LL)
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- J. D. Fry (MITRE)
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- John Heafner (RAND)
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- Bob Hoffman (RAND)
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- Richard Kalin (LL)
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- William Kantrowitz (LL)
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- Peggy Karp (MITRE)
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- Abe Landsberg (SDC)
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- Robert Long (SDC)
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- James Madden (UI)
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- John Melvin (SRI)
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- Alan Nemeth (LL)
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- John Newkirk (Harvard)
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- Jon Postel (UCLA)
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- Tom O'Sullivan (Raytheon)
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- Ari Shoshani (SDC)
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- Joel Winett (LL)
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- Instead of sending NWG/RFC's to Chuck Rose at Case University, Jim Torson
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- will be receiving them.
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[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
[ into the online RFC archives by Tammy and Ofer Porat 1/97 ]
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