RFC 591

Addition to the Very Distant Host specifications

📅 published November 1973, from ietf

Request for Comments: #591 ✨ Addition to the Very Distant Host Specification 🎀

Okay bestie, title block first 💖 This is RFC 591, and it's called Addition to the Very Distant Host Specification. D. Walden of BBN-Net wrote it, with NIC number #20327. It's dated 29 November 1973 and was received at the NIC on December 3, 1973. The header doesn't list a category, and it doesn't say what it obsoletes or updates 🧚

The Tea 🫖

Walden brought up a missing sentence. It should be added to the Very Distant Host specification in Appendix F of BBN report 1822, Specifications for the Interconnection of a Host and an IMP, in the paragraph that starts on page F-5 and ends on page F-7 🦋

"Null packets do not use a channel (nor a channel number) when sent and are not acknowledged when received."

Iconic, honestly 😭

The Filing Instructions 📂

Please file this RFC with your copy of BBN report 1822 until 1822 gets its next update. It's giving organized, and that's the vibe 💅

DCW/nlg 🌸

Received at NIC, December 3, 1973 💜

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