RFC 688

Tentative Schedule for the New TELNET Implementation for the TIP ✨

okay so this one is a 1975 RFC from David C. Walden at BBN 🎀 It's RFC 688 (NIC 32655), filed under the Network Working Group and dated June 4, 1975. The title block doesn't list a category, and it doesn't say whether this one obsoletes or updates anything. 🦋

Bestie, the New TELNET Protocol implementation was now the top priority on the TIP development queue 🔥 And since whatever gets built in the TIP can affect a bunch of hosts, Walden shares the implementation timeline they're hoping to stick to. 💅

• July 18, 1975 🌸 Basic design done! The TIP gets a general version of the option negotiator that refuses all options, and it's running.
• Mid-September, 1975 🧚 Options design is finished. The TIP gets whatever changes are needed to support the options, and it's running.
• Mid-November 💜 An operational TIP with the basic set of options: Binary Transmission, Echo, Suppress Go-Ahead, Timing Mark, and RCTE. Iconic. 👑
• End of 1975 🫶 Any host problems get sorted out, any needed revisions get done, and there's a solid TIP up and running TELNET with options. Main character ending. ✨

ngl this is a tentative schedule, so the dates are goals, not promises 🙈

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