RFC 659 · UNKNOWN · 1974
MON · 15 JUN 2026
Announcing additional Telnet options
Overview
RFC 659, “Announcing additional Telnet options”, is an Unknown document published in October 1974 by J. Postel. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
Options defined in RFCs 651-658.
What “Unknown” means
The standards-track status of this early RFC was never formally classified.
Read this RFC
The canonical text of RFC 659 is hosted at rfc-editor.org. Available in TXT,HTML.
Other RFCs from 1974
- RFC 658 Telnet output linefeed disposition
- RFC 660 Some changes to the IMP and the IMP/Host interface
- RFC 657 Telnet output vertical tab disposition option
- RFC 661 Protocol information
- RFC 656 Telnet output vertical tabstops option
- RFC 662 Performance improvement in ARPANET file transfers from Multics
- RFC 655 Telnet output formfeed disposition option
- RFC 663 Lost message detection and recovery protocol