RFC 701

RFC 701: August, 1974 Survey of New-Protocol Telnet Servers ✨

• Author: D. W. Dodds 🧚
• Date: August 1974 (submitted 20 August 1974) 📅
• Category or status: not stated in the document 🤷‍♀️
• Obsoletes: nothing listed 💅
• Updates: nothing listed 💅

Introduction 🎀

okay bestie, this is the first of what are planned to be monthly reports on the status of the new-protocol TELNET implementations on the server hosts on the ARPA Network 🌸 this one only has data on server TELNETs at the various sites. ngl, you'd hope that any site with a working new-protocol server TELNET would also have a new-protocol user TELNET too 🙈 we can totally assume that for TENEX sites running TENEX 1.32. but no further claims are made for the server data in this report, so don't come for me 💅

I'm sorry to report that, at this late date (a month after the release of TENEX 1.32 💀), less than one-third of the server sites have any new-protocol server operating, according to my surveys*. and only half of those are using the logger socket conventions correctly, as I understand them 😭 at the end of this report is a complete tabulation compiled from my surveys. here's the summary:

    TOTAL SERVER HOSTS        32    100%

    STATUS UNKNOWN (1)         3      9%

    NO NEW-PROT SERVER        19     59%

    TOTAL NEW-PROT IMPLEM.        10     31%

      NEW-PROT ON SOCKET 27,
      OLD ON SOCKET 1 (2)         5     16%

       NEW-PROT ON 1 AND 27 (3)     4     13%

      NEW-PROT ON 1 ONLY (3)     1      3%

Notes 🌸

* all the data in this report was gathered via a surveying program run at various times, plus a few manual checks to fill out the data. what's reported here is the way the various servers work as seen by the new-protocol user TELNET at BBNA, as of 15 Aug. 1974. there may be discrepancies between these results and those from surveys made at other sites, so keep that in mind ✨

(1) numerous attempts to connect to these sites all failed due to the sites' being down to the network 😩

(2) these are the sites whose operation is 100% correct according to all protocols and conventions, as I understand them 👑

(3) we realize that some of the servers that appear here as new-protocol servers on socket 1 are actually servers which attempt to communicate with both old- and new-protocol user TELNETs, according to what control sequences are received 🦋

Server Status Tabulation for All Server Sites 🦋

HOST      HOST          SOCKET  SOCKET    NEW-PROT. OPTIONS
 NO.      NAME            1       27      IMPLEMENTATED (IF ANY)

  1    UCLA-NMC    ?    ?
101    UCLA-CCN    OLD    X
201    UCLA-CCBC    OLD    X
  2    SRI-ARC        OLD    X
102    SRI-AI        OLD    X
  3    UCSB-MOD75    OLD    X
  4    UTAH-10        OLD    X
105    BBN-TENEX    OLD    NEW    I1,3,6; 03
205    BBN-TENEXB    OLD    NEW    I1,3,6; 03
305    BBN-TENEXA    OLD    NEW    I1,3,6; 03
106    MIT-DMS        NEW    NEW    I1,3; 03
206    MIT-AI        OLD    X
306    MIT-ML        OLD    X
 10    SDC-LAB        ?    ?
 11    HARV-10        NEW    X    I1,3; 03
 12    LL-67        OLD    X
112    LL-TX-2        OLD    X
 13    SU-AI        NEW*    NEW*    I1,3
 15    CASE-10        OLD    X
 16    CMU-10B        NEW    NEW    I1,3; 03
116    CMU-10A        NEW    NEW    I1,3; 03
 17    I4-TENEX    OLD    X
117    I4-TENEXA    ?    ?
 20    AMES-67        OLD    OLD(1)
126    USC-ISI        OLD    X
 27    USC-44        OLD    X
 32    SDAC        OLD    X
 37    CCA-TENEX    OLD    X
 40    PARC-MAXC    OLD    NEW    I1,3,6; 03
 43    UCSD-CC        OLD    NEW    IO(1),3; 00,3
 53    OFFICE-1    OLD    X
 54    MIT-MULTICS    NEW    NEW    NONE

Key 🧚

KEY:
    X    NO SEVER AT THIS SOCKET
    ?    STATUS UNKNOWN
    I#    OPTION # IMPLEMENTED INCOMING TO USER
          (SERVER SAYS "WILL #")
    O#    OPTION # IMPLEMENTED OUTGOING FROM USER
          (SERVER SAYS "DO #")
        (# IS OPTION NUMBER IN NEW PROTOCOL.  ALL OPTIONS
        IMPLEMENTED BY ANYONE ARE:
            0    TRANSMIT-BINARY
            1    ECHO
            3    SUPRESS-GO-AHEAD
            6    TIMING MARK )

Note 💀

* there appears to be a minor bug in SU-AI's server: it seems to send an improper response to a request for option O. that's the tea ☕

Submitted 20 August 1974 by D. W. Dodds 🫶 you're literally the best, RFC 701 era 🌈