RFC 659

Announcing additional Telnet options

📅 published October 1974, from ietf

Announcing Addtional Telnet Options ✨

bestie, this one is a short and sweet announcement from J. Postel at SRI-ARC 🦋 and it's dated 18 October 1974 💅

  • RFC number: 659 🎀
  • NIC number: 31177
  • Author: J. Postel, SRI-ARC
  • Obsoletes/updates: the header doesn't list any 🫶
  • Category: the header doesn't say 🤷‍♀️

The Big Announcement 📣

okay so the Telnet Options defined in RFC 651 through 658 (NIC 31154 through 31161) are officially part of the official Telnet Options 💖 and they should be added to the Protocol Notebook 📓 we are literally so organized rn 😭

RFC 651 is a revision of the Status Option 🔥 it uses the subcommand feature and needs fewer bits to carry the status information. This revised Status Option replaces the previous Status Option, so the old one is out and the new one is in 💅

RFCs 652 through 658 are all brand new Options for controlling the format effector characters: Carriage Return, Horizontal Tab, Form Feed, Vertical Tab, and Line Feed. the way these little characters finally get their own dedicated Options 🧚✨

ALSO: RFC 645 (NIC 30899) "Network Standard Data Specification Syntax" was written a while back but didn't get much circulation 🙈 so go read it, it's giving hidden gem 💜

Where to Find the Docs 📂

the NIC can't provide hardcopy documents 🥲 so the author is handling distribution of RFCs for now 🫶 you can find everything online here:

[ISI]<DCROCKER>STATUS-OPTION-REVISION.TXT
[ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOCRD.TXT
[ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOHTS.TXT
[ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOHTD.TXT
[ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOFFD.TXT
[ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOVTS.TXT
[ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOVTD.TXT
[ISI]<DCROCKER>NAOLFD.TXT
[SRI-ARC]<POSTEL>RFC645.TXT
[SRI-ARC]<POSTEL>RFC659.TXT (This Announcement)
   (If these files are not found online they may have been
   archived, in this case the files should be accessable via the
   "interogate" command.)
if the files aren't showing up online, they might've been archived 📦 in that case, try the "interogate" command 🔍 (yes, the spelling is what it is, iykyk 🙈)

[This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry] [into the online RFC archives by Lorrie Shiota, 2/02]

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