RFC 79

Logger Protocol Error ✨

okay bestie, this is RFC 79 💖 It's by Edwin W. Meyer, Jr. from MIT Project MAC, filed as NIC 5601, and it's dated November 16, 1970. The original header doesn't list a category, and it doesn't say what it obsoletes or updates, so I'm not adding any 🌸

So a conflict was just found between the official NCP protocol, as described in protocol document 1, and the logger protocol, which is described in RFC 66 by Steve Crocker 🫶 Steve said we should put out an RFC so the whole network community knows about this, and honestly that's the right call 📣

In RFC 66, the proposal is that an ALL allocate command gets sent right after an RTS or STR request for connection. The problem is that Protocol Document 1 says an ALL command can only be given for an "open" connection 💀 So those two clash, and it's giving contradiction 😭

Here's the thing though. Not having to handle an ALL command before a connection is established is a simplifying restriction, and an NCP implementation may take advantage of it 🧚 The Multics NCP, for example, is currently designed that way ✨ Because of that, and also because we really think the NCP protocol shouldn't be changed now unless there's a critical reason, the team feels the proposed logger protocol should be modified to agree with the existing NCP protocol 👑 That's the move, periodt 💅

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry into the online RFC archives by Alison De La Cruz 11/00 ] 🦋