RFC 218

Changing the IMP status reporting facility

📅 published September 1971, from ietf

RFC 218 🎀 B. Cosell, BBN, 8 September 1971

okay bestie, this is a super short one but it's giving main character energy 💅 It's Request for Comments #218 (NIC #7548), written by B. Cosell of BBN on 8 September 1971. It's in category B.1, and it doesn't update or obsolete anything, so it's a fresh little drop 🦋

The IMP Status Reporting Glow-Up ✨

okay so BBN is changing how the IMP does its status reporting 🌸 They're doing this to help expand their role as NCC, and it's happening within the next month. The best part? It should be totally transparent to the hosts 🫶

The text status reports are getting removed 💀 They've already been fully replaced by a binary version that goes straight to the NCC, so the text ones were just sitting there as excess baggage. Honestly, same energy as deleting old screenshots 😭

The status reports will still live with the statistics program on fake host 3 💜 But here's the lowkey clever part: they won't be affected by any of the PARAMETER CHANGE parameters anymore. That way the Hosts can't accidentally mess with how the NCC operates 👑 Protecting the NCC is giving ✨

BC/jm 🍓

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ] [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 12/96 ]
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