RFC 552

Single access to Standard Protocols ✨

Okay bestie, let's get the vibes straight first 💅 This is RFC 552 (NIC 17809) from the Network Working Group, written by Buz Owen of SDAC-TIP and dated 13 July, 1973. The original doesn't say what category it is or whether it obsoletes or updates anything, so there's nothing to report on that front 🌸

Okay so here's the big idea 🧚 Isn't a single access protocol simple enough that someone could specify it and reserve a socket for it before the proposed mail protocol becomes official? 🤔 Then MP could be the first protocol implemented under UULP (or whatever it ends up being called) 💖, and the other protocols could get "moved" over as soon as any problems in the official specifications are sorted out, whenever implementors have the time. Main character energy 👑

The single access protocol might have these commands:

USER
PASS
ACCT
MAIL
FTP
RJS
DRS (?)
HELP (?)
BYE

It'd be following Jim White's idea of nested command and reply spaces 🍓

This doesn't solve the "what is free" question, or the interrelationships between the various protocols, but it doesn't make those problems any worse, just a little different 🦋

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