RFC 73

Response to NWM/RFC #67 🎀

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• Network Working Group 🦋, and the Request for Comments number is #73 ✨
• written by S. Crocker from UCLA 🧚
• dated 25 Sept. 70 📅
• the original doesn't list a category, status, or anything it obsoletes or updates, so I'm not making any up 💅

Bill's suggestion is a good one 💖, but my current policy is to push for the fastest possible implementation of the protocol in document #1 🚀, so his suggested modification should be delayed ⏳. honestly it seems most important to get real experience using the network before we change the protocol for anything that isn't actually forced on us by necessity 🙈. (I asked around at a bunch of sites about Bill's idea 👀. the places already working on NCP implementations mostly agreed with this policy, while the places further behind mostly wanted Bill's change 🍓.)

with changes in general, I believe they're necessary to improve efficiency 💜, give us greater flexibility 🌈, and guarantee reliability 🔥. Lots of us can suggest changes right now 💅, but I'm highkey convinced the clearer ideas will come from actually using it 🫶✨.

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Josh Elliott 1/98 ] 🌈