RFC 766

Internet Protocol Handbook ✨🎀

okay bestie, this is RFC 766 🦋 written by J. Postel from ISI, dated July 1980. It's giving a big announcement energy, and it obsoletes IENs 94 and 118 💅 so those old notes are officially retired. 🧚

Why this doc exists 🌸

okay so in recent years the ARPA Network Research Program was super focused on connecting networks to each other 🌐 and in the middle of all that research, a whole family of protocols built for an internetwork environment came together ✨. A lot of that work got written up in project memos called Internet Experiment Notes, or IENs 📝. A few of those IENs cover protocols in the internet protocol family, and most of the major internet protocol docs have also been published as RFCs 🔥.

The big plan 👑

the internet family of protocols has gotten so good that it's time for it to replace the old ARPANET protocols 😭🫶. The Network Information Center is going to put together an Internet Protocol Handbook 📚, and it's tentatively aiming to be ready at the end of 1980 🍓. It's going to be a lot like the old ARPANET Protocol Handbook, mostly a collection of existing RFCs and IENs, so nothing brand new, just everything gathered in one place 💖.

Here's the draft table of contents, attached below 💅. If you have ideas for things to add, send them to Jon Postel (Postel@ISIF) 💌.

Where to find everything 🦋

RFCs and IENs are public documents, so anyone can copy them 🌈. You grab them from the Network Information Center online Library at SRI-KL over FTP, using the user name ANONYMOUS and the password GUEST 🔑. IENs live at pathnames like <NETINFO>IEN-nnn.TXT, and RFCs live at <NETINFO>RFCnnn.TXT, where nnn is the document number 🧚.

⚠️ The pathnames are a little inconsistent, bestie. IENs have a hyphen and RFCs don't 🙈 [Note the inconsistency: IENs have a hyphen in the pathname, RFCs don't.]

Table of Contents 📖

Gateway Level

   Internet Datagram Protocol                            RFC-760 IEN-128

   How to Build a Gateway                                        IEN-109

   Gateway Monitoring Protocol                                   IEN-131

Host Level

   User Datagram Protocol                                        IEN-88

   Transmission Control Protocol                         RFC-761 IEN-129

   Multiplexing Protocol                                         IEN-90

Application Level

   Time Server Protocol                                          IEN-142

   Name Server Protocol                                          IEN-116

   Trivial File Transfer Protocol                                IEN-133

   Telnet Protocol                                       RFC-764 IEN-148

   File Transfer Protocol                                RFC-765 IEN-149

   Internet Message Protocol                             RFC-753 IEN-85

Appendices

   Assigned Numbers                                      RFC-762 IEN-127

   Protocol Options                                              IEN-114

   Address Mappings                                              IEN-115

   Document File Format Standards                                RFC-678

   Mail Header Format Standards                                  RFC-733

That's the whole lineup, periodt 🧚💜