RFC 256

IMPSYS Change Notification ✨

Okay bestie, the title block tea 🫖: this is RFC #256 (NIC #7697), written by B. Cosell at BBN on 3 November 1971. It's in Categories: B.1, it Updates: None, and it Obsoletes: None 🎀 So nothing gets replaced and nothing gets patched, it's just a fresh announcement 📣 It's from the Network Working Group too 🧚

Anyway, BBN is about to roll out (or maybe already rolled out 🙈) a new version of the IMP system, Version 2513 🔥 It has two main changes:

1. A Host gets blocked from sending any messages into the Network for between 40 seconds and a minute and a quarter after they come alive 💀 (This used to be between 30 seconds and a minute, so the window got bigger 🌸)
2. The IMP can now test its Host interfaces under the control of the NCC 🫶 This is lowkey so useful, because it helps them figure out where the trouble is when the IMP-Host communication path is faulty 🕵️‍♀️

Signed off with BC/jm 💜

Archive note, kept exactly as it was: 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 🦋

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
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[ direction of Alex McKenzie.                   12/96   ]