RFC 179

Link Number Assignments 🎀

Okay bestie, the paperwork ✨ RFC 179 is from the Network Working Group and it's titled Link Number Assignments. The author is Alex McKenzie at BBN 💅 The NIC number is 7119 and the date is 22 June 1971. It's Category C.9 🦋 It updates RFC 107 and obsoletes none 🙈

The Announcement 💖

So today Steve Crocker asked Alex to announce that from now on, link numbers 2-71 (decimal), inclusive, are valid for use in connections. 🫶 Alex is writing the Host-Host Protocol Document right now, and it's going to include the following "declarative specification" 🌸

Here's how the links are assigned 👑

Link Number         Assignment

0                   Control link
2-71                Available for connections
1, 72-190           Reserved-not for current use
191                 To be used only for measurement
                    work under the direction of the
                    Network Measurement Center at UCLA
192-255             Available for private experimental use

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Kai Henningsen 5/97 ] 🧚