Introduction to proposed DoD standard H-FP
RFC 928, “Introduction to proposed DoD standard H-FP”, is an Unknown document published in December 1984 by M.A. Padlipsky. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
The broad outline of the Host-Front End Protocol introduced here and described in RFC-929 is the result of the deliberations of a number of experienced H-FP designers, who sat as a committee of the DoD Protocol Standards Technical Panel. It is the intent of the designers that the protocol be subjected to multiple test implementations and probable iteration before being agreed upon as any sort of "standard". Therefore, the first order of business is to declare that THIS IS A PROPOSAL, NOT A FINAL STANDARD, and the second order of business is to request that any readers of these documents who are able to do test implementations (a) do so and (b) coordinate their efforts with the author. This RFC suggests a proposed protocol for the ARPA-Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.
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- RFC 927 TACACS user identification Telnet option
- RFC 929 Proposed Host-Front End Protocol
- RFC 926 Protocol for providing the connectionless mode network services
- RFC 925 Multi-LAN address resolution
- RFC 924 Official ARPA-Internet protocols for connecting personal computers to the Internet
- RFC 923 Assigned numbers
- RFC 922 Broadcasting Internet datagrams in the presence of subnets
- RFC 921 Domain name system implementation schedule - revised