RFC 322

Well Known Socket Numbers ✨

okay bestie, this one is a total vintage gem 💜🧚 It's Request for Comments #322, written by V. Cerf and J. Postel of UCLA-NMC (NIC #9609), dated 26 March 72. The title block doesn't list a category or status, and it doesn't say it obsoletes or updates anything, so nothing to report there 🙈

The Network Measurement Group wants to set up a network standard socket number for a Process Discard service 🔥 Not every HOST has to cooperate, which is very chill of them. To make that happen, they need to know which sockets at each HOST are already taken by standard network functions.

At all HOSTs that allow login for services, socket 1 is the Network Logger, and that's where ICP may be performed 🫶

They also want to catalog other sockets that are supposed to be well-known, so they'd love a note or phone call from each HOST Technical Liaison describing the function and socket numbers of network service programs at their HOST 💅 The catalog will be published, and they'd recommend that it be maintained at NIC. Iconic organizing energy ✨

                            Dr. Vint Cerf or Jon Postel
                            3804 Boelter Hall
                            UCLA Computer Science Department
                            Los Angeles, California 90024

                            (213) 825-4864   Vint

                            (213) 825-4733   Jon

                            (213) 825-2368   Secretary

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