RFC 702

RFC 702: September 1974 Survey of New-Protocol TELNET Servers 💖

Okay bestie, this one is by D.W. Dodds from BBN-TENEXA, dated September 25, 1974. It's a monthly survey, so it's not a protocol spec. It's a status update on which hosts run the new-protocol TELNET server. The original doesn't list a category, and it doesn't obsolete or update any other RFC. 🎀

Last month's survey got a lot of feedback that cleared up the status of a few sites, but the host server list barely moved. ✨ Here are this month's changes, in numerical order. All host numbers are octal, btw. 🧚

• UCLA-NMC is no longer a server 💀
• Host 205 is now BBN-TENEXD, a new system (BBNB) is now host 61 🍓
• RAND-RCC got accidentally left off the previous list 🙈
• SDC-LAB has been temporarily removed from the list until it returns to the net 😭
• I4-TENEXA (117) is not a server. KI4B-TENEX (217) is, and it's been added to the list 🦋
• AMES-67 fixed a bug, which revealed the new-protocol server (no options) that had been there the whole time 🔥
• ISI-DEVTENEX (226) and USC-ECL (327) have been added 🌸

Here's the summary and tabulation from last month, updated. We are still very far from 100% new-protocol implementation, so let's keep pushing 💅

        TOTAL SERVER HOSTS            34             100%
        NO NEW-PROT SERVER            21              62%
        TOTAL NEW-PROT IMPLEM.        13              38%
          NEW-PROT ON SOCKET 27,
          OLD ON SOCKET 1 (2)          6              18%
          NEW-PROT ON 1 AND 27 (3)     6              18%
          NEW-PROT ON 1 ONLY           1               3%

Notes 📝

The data came from a surveying program that ran at different times, plus a few manual checks to fill in the gaps. This report shows how the various servers behave as seen by the new-protocol user TELNET at BBNA, as of 23 September 1974. 🌈

(2) These are the sites that are 100% correct according to all protocol and conventions, as the author understands them. ⭐

(3) Some servers that appear here as new-protocol servers on socket 1 actually try to talk to both old- and new-protocol user TELNETs, depending on which control sequences they receive. 🧚

Tabulation of Server Status for All Server Sites 🎀

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

101     UCLA-CCN        OLD             X
201     UCLA-CCBS       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; O3
205     BBN TENEXD      OLD             NEW      I1, 3, 6; O3
305     BBN-TENEXA      OLD             NEW      I1, 3, 6; O3
106     MIT-DMS         NEW             NEW      I1, 3; O3
206     MIT-AI          OLD             X
306     MIT-ML          OLD             X
  7     RAND-RCC        OLD             X
 11     HARV-10         NEW             X        I1, 3; O3
 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; O3
116     CMU-10A         NEW             NEW      I1, 3; O3
 17     I4-TENEX        OLD             X
217     KI4B-TENEX      OLD             X
 20     AMES-67         NEW             NEW      NONE
126     USC-ISI         OLD             X
226     ISI-DEVTENEX    OLD             X
 27     USC-44          OLD             X
327     USC-ECL         OLD             X
 32     SDAC-44         OLD             X
 37     CCA-TENEX       OLD             X
 40     PARC-MAXC       OLD             NEW     I1,3,6; O3
 43     UCSD-CC         OLD             NEW     I0(!), 3; O0, 3
 53     OFFICE-1        OLD             X
 54     MIT-MULTICS     NEW             NEW     NONE
 61     BBN-TENEXB      OLD             NEW     I1, 3, 6; O3

Key to the Server Status Table 🗝️

        X       NO SERVER AT THIS SOCKET

        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       SUPPRESS-GO-AHEAD
                        6       TIMING-MARK)

NOTE: SU-AI's server seems to have a minor bug. It sends an improper response to a request for option 0. 🙈

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with ] [ support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp. 11/99 ]