RFC 699

Requests For Comments Summary Notes: 600-699 🎀 (Part 1 of 2)

okay bestie, this is RFC 699 🦋 It's a summary of the 100 RFCs from RFC 600 through RFC 699, kind of like a status report on that whole stretch. Part 1 covers RFC 699 down to RFC 650 ✨

Title Block 📋

• RFC: 699
• Series: Network Working Group
• Authors: J. Postel and J. Vernon
• Affiliation: ISI
• Date: November 1982
• Category, obsoletes, updates: none are listed in the title block 💅

The authors are Postel and Vernon, both from ISI. Postel is the name you'll see a lot in this list, so keep an eye out 👀

What This RFC Is 🌸

This is a slightly annotated list of the 100 RFCs from RFC 600 through RFC 699. Each row gives the RFC number, the author, the date, and the title, and some rows have a little note under them. The table is in order from the newest RFC down to the oldest, so 699 is at the top and 600 is at the bottom 🧚

The Table 💜

RFC     Author    Date           Title
---     ------    ---------      -----

699     Postel    10 Nov 82      Requests for Comments Summary
                                 Notes:  600-699

698     Tovar     23 Jul 75      Telnet Extended ASCII Option

697     Lieb      14 Jul 75      CWD Command of FTP

696     Cerf      17 Jul 75      Comments on the IMP/HOST and
                                 HOST/IMP Protocol Changes

695   Krilanovich 5  Jul 75      Official Change in  Host-Host Protocol

694     Postel    18 Jun 75      Protocol Information

693     Not Issued

692     Wolfe     20 Jun 75      Comments on IMP/Host Protocol Changes

691     Harvey    28 May 75      One More Try on the FTP

690     Postel     6 Jun 75      Comments on the proposed Host/IMP
                                 Protocol Changes

689     Clements  23 May 75      TENEX NCP Finite State Machine for
                                 Connections

688     Walden     4 Jun 75      Tentative Schedule for the New TELNET
                                 Implementation for the TIP

687     Walden     2 Jun 75      IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol Changes

686     Harvey    10 May 75      Leaving Well Enough Alone

685     Beeler    16 Apr 75      Response Time in Cross-network
                                 Debugging

684     Schantz   15 Apr 75      A Commentary on Procedure Calling as a
                                 Network Protocol

683     Clements   3 Apr 75      FTPSRV -- TENEX Extension for Paged
                                 Files

682     Not Issued
681     Holmgren  14 May 75      Network Unix
680     Myer      30 Apr 75      Message Transmission Protocol
679     Dodds     21 Feb 75      February, 1975, Survey of  New-Protocol
                                 Telnet Servers
678     Postel    18 Dec 74      Standard File Formats
677     Johnson   27 Jan 75      The Maintenance of Duplicate Databases
676     Not Issued
675     Cerf      16 Dec 74      Specification of Internet Transmission
                                 Control Program
674     Postel    12 DEC 74      Procedure Call Documents--Version 2
673     Not Issued
672     Schantz    6 Dec 74      A Multi-Site Data Collection Facility
671     Schantz    6 Dec 74      A Note on Reconnection Protocol
670     Not Issued
669     Dodds      4 Dec 74      November 1974, Survey of New-Protocol
                                 Telnet Servers
668     Not Issued
667     Chipman      Dec 74      BBN Host Ports
666     Padlipsky 26 Nov 74      Specification of the Unified User-Level
                                 Protocol
665     Not Issued
664     Not Issued
663     Kanodia   29 Nov 74      A Lost Message Detection and Recovery
                                 Protocol
662     Kanodia   26 Nov 74      Performance Improvement in ARPANET File
                                 Transfers from Multics
661     Postel    23 Nov 74      Protocol Information
660     Walden    23 Oct 74      Some Changes to the IMP and the
                                 IMP/Host Interface
659     Postel    18 Oct 74      Announcing Additional Telnet Options
658     Crocker   25 Oct 74      Telnet Output Line Feed Disposition
657     Crocker   25 Oct 74      Telnet Output Vertical Tab Disposition
                                 Option
656     Crocker   25 Oct 74      Telnet Output Vertical Tab Stops Option
655     Crocker   25 Oct 74      Telnet Output Form Feed Disposition
                                 Option
654     Crocker   25 Oct 74      Telnet Output Horizontal Tab
                                 Disposition Option
653     Crocker   25 Oct 74      Telnet Output Horizontal Tab Stops
                                 Option
652     Crocker   25 Oct 74      Telnet Output Carriage Return
                                 Disposition Option
651     Crocker   25 Oct 74      Revised Telnet Status Option
650     Not Issued

The Juicy Notes 🍓

Here are the notes that go with the entries above. Some entries don't have one, so they're skipped 🙈

• 699 (Postel): This summary.
• 698 (Tovar): Describes an option to allow transmission of a special kind of extended ASCII used at the Stanford AI and MIT AI Labs. 🧠
• 697 (Lieb): Discusses FTP login access to "files only" directories. 📁
• 696 (Cerf): Observations on current international standards recommendations from IFIP working group 6.1; see also RFCs 692, 690 687. 🌍
• 695 (Krilanovich): Corrects ambiguity concerning the ERR command; changes NIC 8246 and NIC 7104. 🔧
• 694 (Postel): References to documents and contacts concerning the various protocols used in the ARPANET, as well as recent developments; updates RFC 661. 📚
• 692 (Wolfe): A proposed solution to the problem of combined length of IMP and Host leaders; see also RFCs 696, 690 and 687. 💡
• 691 (Harvey): Slight revision of RFC 686, on the subject of print files; see also RFCs 640, 630, 542, 454, 448, 414, 385 and 354. 🖨️
• 690 (Postel): Comments on suggestions in RFC 687; see also RFCs 692 and 696. 💬
• 689 (Clements): Describes the internal states of an NCP connection in the TENEX implementation. 🔌
• 687 (Walden): Addressing hosts on more than 63 IMPs, and other backwards compatible expansions; see also RFCs 690 and 692. 🌐
• 686 (Harvey): Discusses difference between early and later versions of FTP; see also RFCs 691, 640, 630, 542, 454, 448, 414, 385 and 354. 🕰️
• 685 (Beeler): The contribution of ARPANET communication to response time. ⏱️
• 684 (Schantz): Issues in designing distributed computing systems. Shortcomings of RFC 674; see also RFCs 542 and 354. 🧩
• 683 (Clements): Defines an extension to FTP for page-mode transfers between TENEX systems; also discusses file transfer reliability. 📄
• 681 (Holmgren): Capabilities as an ARPANET Mini-Host: standard I/O, Telnet, NCP, Hardware/Software requirements, reliability, availability. 🖥️
• 680 (Myer): Extends message field definition beyond RFC 561 attempts to establish syntactic and semantic standards for ARPANET; see also RFCs 733 and 822. ✉️
• 679 (Dodds): An earlier poll of Telnet server implementation status. Updates RFCs 701, 702 and 669; see also RFC 703. 📊
• 678 (Postel): For transmission of documents across different environments. 🗂️
• 675 (Cerf): The first detailed specification of TCP; see RFC 793. 🎉
• 674 (Postel): Host level protocol used in the NSW--a slightly constrained version of ARPANET Host-to-Host protocol, affecting allocation, RFNM wait, and retransmission; see also RFC 684. 🔁
• 672 (Schantz): Applicability of TIP/TENEX protocols beyond TIP accounting. 🧾
• 671 (Schantz): Experience with implementation in RSEXEC context. 🧪
• 669 (Dodds): An earlier poll of Telnet server implementation status. Updates RFC 702; see also RFCs 703 and 679. 📊
• 667 (Chipman): Approved scheme to connect host ports to the network. 🔗
• 666 (Padlipsky): Discusses and proposes a common command language. 🗣️
• 663 (Kanodia): Proposed extension of host-host protocol; see also RFCs 534, 516, 512, 492 and 467. 🔍
• 662 (Kanodia): Experimenting with host output buffers to improve throughput. 🚀
• 661 (Postel): An old version; see RFC 694. 🕸️
• 660 (Walden): Decoupling of message number sequences of hosts; host-host access control; message number window; messages outside normal mechanism; see also BBN 1822. 🧵
• 659 (Postel): Options defined in RFCs 651-658. 🎀

No notes are given for the Not Issued entries (693, 682, 676, 673, 670, 668, 665, 664, 650), for 688, for 677, or for the Telnet option entries 658 through 651. They're just listed in the table 💅

Part 2 picks up at RFC 649 🌈

Preliminary results of the language design; a model for data languagea semantics; future considerations. Okay this one is giving "thesis statement" energy 🎀

609 Ferguson 10 Jan 74 Statement of Upcoming Move of NIC/NLS Service

Ferguson is announcing that NIC/NLS service is about to move. Go check RFCs 621 and 620 too, they're the sidekicks for this one 🧚

608 Feinler 10 Jan 73 Host Names On-Line

This is Feinler's reply to RFC 606, so it's a whole back-and-forth vibe 💅 For more context, see RFCs 627, 625 and 623 ✨

607 Krilanovich 7 Jan 73 NIC-21255 Comments on the File Transfer Protocol

Okay so this one is Krilanovich's NIC-21255 comments on FTP, but it's an old version, so use RFC 624 instead 🙈 You can also look at RFCs 614, 542 and 640 if you're obsessed with FTP history (I am) 📚

606 Deutsch 29 Dec 73 Host Names On-Line

Deutsch is sorting out the mess in hostname-address mappings, and it's honestly iconic 👑 Pair it with RFCs 627, 625, 623 and 608 for the full drama 🦋

605 Not Issued

Literally nothing here 💀 RFC 605 was never published, so don't go looking for it 🙃

604 Postel 26 Dec 73 Assigned Link Numbers

Postel changes the official host-host protocol here, and it straight up replaces RFC 377 🫶 Main character energy for sure 🌸

603 Burchfiel 31 Dec 73 Response to RFC 597: Host Status

Burchfiel is asking some pointed questions about the ARPANET topology that RFC 597 describes. Bestie, this is a whole Q&A situation 🍓

602 Metcalfe 27 Dec 73 "The Stockings Were Hung by the Chimney With Care"

Metcalfe made a holiday-themed RFC, and I'm not okay 😭 Underneath the festive title, it's about how susceptible the ARPANET is to security violations. Dramatic, but also true, and we need to talk about it 🔥

601 McKenzie 14 Dec 73 Traffic Statistics November 1973

Just the numbers for November 1973, no tea spilled 📊✨

600 Berggreen 26 Nov 73 Interfacing an Illinois Plasma Terminal to the ARPANET

And we end at RFC 600 with Berggreen looking at the unusual interface issues for the Plato terminal 🧚💜 This is where the list starts, and honestly the Plato terminal is so iconic I'm obsessed 🌈