RFC 226

Standardization of Host Mnemonics ✨

okay bestie, this is RFC #226 (NIC #7625) by Peggy Karp at MITRE 🎀, dated 20 SEPT 71 🦋. It's filed under category D.3, and it updates nothing and obsoletes nothing, so it's a totally fresh start 💅

In every TELNET implementation there's a list of host mnemonics the user picks from to say which serving host they want 💖. Right now every site has its own special list 😭, and that's a lot to juggle, especially when you're chained through several hosts over TELNET. So it has been RECOMMENDED that standard host designators be adopted 🌸

Here's the proposed standard list of six character designators ✨. Send any objections to P. Karp at (703) 893-3500 X2391, X2318 by 3 October 🫶. The official policy and implementation date gets locked in on 8 October ⭐

Here's the list 👑:

            HOST #             DESIGNATOR
              1                  UCLA
             65                  UCLA36
              2                  SRIARC
             66                  SRIAI
              3                  UCSB
              4                  UTAH
              6                  MULTCS
             70                  MITDM
              7                  RAND
              8                  SDC
              9                  HARV
             10                  LNCTX2
             74                  LNC360
             11                  STAN
             12                  ILL
             69                  BBN
            133                  BBNB
            144                  AMES
            145                  MITRE
            158                  TIP

And the archive note, for the record 🧚

       [ 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   ]