Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network
RFC 6529
Document | Type | RFC - Historic (April 2012; No errata) | |
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Authors | Alexander McKenzie , Steve Crocker | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
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Independent Submission A. McKenzie Request for Comments: 6529 S. Crocker Category: Historic April 2012 ISSN: 2070-1721 Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network Abstract This document reproduces the Host/Host Protocol developed by the ARPA Network Working Group during 1969, 1970, and 1971. It describes a protocol used to manage communication between processes residing on independent Hosts. It addresses issues of multiplexing multiple streams of communication (including addressing, flow control, connection establishment/disestablishment, and other signaling) over a single hardware interface. It was the official protocol of the ARPA Network from January 1972 until the switch to TCP/IP in January 1983. It is offered as an RFC at this late date to help complete the historical record available through the RFC series. Status of This Memo This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for the historical record. This document defines a Historic Document for the Internet community. This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independent of any other RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion and makes no statement about its value for implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by the RFC Editor are not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6529. McKenzie & Crocker Historic [Page 1] RFC 6529 Host-Host Protocol for the ARPA Network April 2012 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................3 2. A Few Comments on Nomenclature and Key Concepts .................4 3. Host/Host Protocol Document .....................................5 (with its own table of contents on page 7) 4. Security Considerations ........................................34 McKenzie & Crocker Historic [Page 2] RFC 6529 Host-Host Protocol for the ARPA Network April 2012 1. Introduction The Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network was created during 1969, 1970, and 1971 by the Network Working Group, chaired by Steve Crocker, a graduate student at UCLA. Many of the RFCs with numbers less than 72, plus RFCs 102, 107, 111, 124, 132, 154, and 179 dealt with the development of this protocol. The first official document defining the protocol was issued by Crocker on August 3, 1970 as "Host-Host Protocol Document No. 1" (see citation in RFC 65), which was based on RFC 54 by Crocker, Postel, Newkirk, and Kraley. Revision of Document No. 1 began in mid-February 1971, as discussed in RFC 102. Although McKenzie is listed as the author of the January 1972 document, which superseded Document No. 1, it is more correct to say McKenzie was the person who compiled and edited the document. Most or all of the ideas in the document originated with others. At the time "Host-Host Protocol Document No. 1" was issued it was not given an RFC number because it was not to be viewed as a "request for comments" but as a standard for implementation. It was one of a set of such standards maintained as a separate set of documentation by the Network Information Center (NIC) at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). The January 1972 version (NIC 8246) reproduced here also followed that approach. It has been noted by many that all subsequent standards were issued as RFCs, and the absence of the Host/Host Protocol specification from the RFC series creates a curious gap in the historical record. It is to fill that gap that this RFC is offered. In 1972, most ARPA Network documents, RFCs and others, were prepared and distributed in hard copy. The Host/Host Protocol document was typed on a typewriter (probably an IBM Selectric), which had interchangeable print elements, and used both italic and boldface fonts in addition to the regular font. Diagrams were drawn by a graphic artist and pasted into the typed document. Since RFCs are constrained to use a single typeface, we have tried to indicateShow full document text