RFC 847 · UNKNOWN · 1983
TUE · 15 SEP 2026
Summary of Smallberg surveys
Overview
RFC 847, “Summary of Smallberg surveys”, is an Unknown document published in February 1983 by A. Westine, D. Smallberg, J. Postel. It obsoletes RFC 846. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This is a summary of the surveys of Telnet, FTP and Mail (SMTP) servers conducted by David Smallberg in December 1982, January and February 1983 as reported in RFC 832-843, 845-846. This memo extracts the number of hosts that accepted the connection to their server for each of Telnet, FTP, and SMTP, and compares it to the total host in the Internet (not counting TACs or ECHOS).
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 1983
- RFC 846 Who talks TCP? - survey of 22 February 1983
- RFC 848 Who provides the "little" TCP services?
- RFC 845 Who talks TCP? - survey of 15 February 1983
- RFC 849 Suggestions for improved host table distribution
- RFC 844 Who talks ICMP, too? - Survey of 18 February 1983
- RFC 850 Standard for interchange of USENET messages
- RFC 843 Who talks TCP? - survey of 8 February 83
- RFC 851 ARPANET 1822L Host Access Protocol