RFC 703

Hiii bestie, it's RFC 703 💖✨

Title block: This one's by D.W. Dodds at BBN-TENEXA (NIC # 32988), dated 11 July, 1975 🎀. It doesn't list a category or status, and it doesn't say it obsoletes or updates anything 🙈.

July, 1975, Survey of New-Protocol TELNET Servers 🦋

Okay so it's been almost five months since the last report, and a bunch of new server sites have joined the network 🌸. New-Protocol implementation has also made some real progress, which is so exciting 🔥. The New-Protocol stuff on the TIPs is scheduled for the end of the year, and that could push things even further soon 🚀.

There have been a lot of changes since the last list (numbers are in octal) 💅:

• SRI-ARC (2) is no longer a server host 😭
• MIT-AI (206), MIT-ML (306), LONDON (52), and OFFICE-1 (53) have added New-Protocol servers 💜
• LLL-RISOS (25), SDAC-44 (32), and ARPA-DMS (34) have joined the network 🧚
• SCI-TENEX (55), Rutgers-10 (56), USC-ISIC (364), and SUMEX-AIM (70) have joined the network with New-Protocol servers 👑

Here's the latest summary of the server-host TELNET servers, which is the most recent version 🍓:

        total server hosts             43      100%
        no New-Prot server             16       37%
        unknown status (new host)       2        5%
        total New-Prot implem.         25       58%
            New-Prot on 1 and 27,
                Old on socket 1 (2)    13       30%
            New-Prot on 1 and 27 (3)    8       19%
            New-Prot on 1 only (3)      4        9%

Notes 📝

• Everything in this report was collected with a surveying program that ran at different times, plus a few manual checks to finish the list 🔍. What's shown is how the various servers behave when you look at them through the new-Protocol User Telnet at BBNA, as of 10 July 1975 ⭐.
• (2) These are the sites that are 100% correct under all the protocols and conventions, as far as I understand them 💖.
• (3) We know that some servers listed 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 get 🦋.

Server status tabulation 🌈

Here's the status for every server site 💜:

 Host  Number   Host            Socket  Socket   New-Prot, Options
(Oct)   (Dec)   Name              1       27     Implementated (if any)

101     65      UCLA-CCN        Old     X
201     129     UCLA-CCBS       Old     X
102     66      SRI-AI          Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
3       3       UCSB-MOD75      Old     X
4       4       UTAH-10         Old     X
305     197     BBN-TENEXA      Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
106     70      MIT-DMS         New     New      I1,3; O3
206     134     MIT-AI          New     X        I1,3; O3
306     198     MIT-ML          New     X        I1,3; O3
7       7       RAND-RCC        Old     X
107     71      RAND-ISD        ?       ?
10      8       SDC-LAB         Old     X
11      9       HARV-10         New     X        I1,3; O3
12      10      LL-67           New     X        None
112     74      LL-TX-2         Old     X
13      11      SU-AI           New*    New*     I1,3
16      14      CMU-10B         New     New      I1,3; O3
116     78      CMU-10A         New     New      I1,3; O3
17      15      I4-TENEX        Old     X
217     143     I4B-TENEX       Old     X
20      16      AMES-67         New     New      None
25      21      LLL-RISOS       Old     Old
126     86      USC-ISI         Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
226     150     USC-ISIB        Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
27      23      USC-44          Old     X
327     215     USC-ECL         Old     X
32      26      SDAC-44         Old     X
34      28      ARPA-DMS        Old     X
37      31      CCA-TENEX       Old     X
40      32      PARC-MAXC       Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
43      35      UCSD-CC         Old     New      I0(!),3; O0,3
344     228     HAWAII-500      Old     X
52      42      LONDON          New     New      None
53      43      OFFICE-1        Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
54      44      MIT-MULTICS     New     New      None
55      45      SCI-TENEX       Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
56      46      RUTGERS-10      New     New      I1,3; O3
61      49      BBN-TENEXB      Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
361     241     BBN-TENEX       Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
162     114     BBN-TENEXD      Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
364     244     USC-ISIC        Old     New      I1,3,6; O3
67      55      ANL             ?       ?
70      56      SUMEX-AIM       Old     New      I1,3,6; O3

Key 🔑

Key:    X  No server at this socket
        ?  Status not ascertained-unable to connect to host
        I# Option # implemented incoming to user (Server says "Will #")
        O# Option # implemented outgoing from user (Server says "Do #")
           (# is option number in new Protocol, Options in tabulation:
                0 Transmit-Binary       1  Echo
                3 Suppress-Go-Ahead     6  Timing-Mark)

⚠️ * note: these servers give improper responses to some TELNET option requests. Yikes, be careful with SU-AI, RAND-ISD, and ANL 😭.

[ 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 ]