RFC 165 · UNKNOWN · 1971
MON · 15 JUN 2026
Proffered Official Initial Connection Protocol
Overview
RFC 165, “Proffered Official Initial Connection Protocol”, is an Unknown document published in May 1971 by J. Postel. It obsoletes RFC 123, RFC 143, RFC 145. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
What “Unknown” means
The standards-track status of this early RFC was never formally classified.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 1971
- RFC 164 Minutes of Network Working Group meeting, 5/16 through 5/19/71
- RFC 166 Data Reconfiguration Service: An implementation specification
- RFC 163 Data transfer protocols
- RFC 167 Socket conventions reconsidered
- RFC 162 NETBUGGER3
- RFC 168 ARPA Network mailing lists
- RFC 161 Solution to the race condition in the ICP
- RFC 169 COMPUTER NETWORKS