<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I think it may have been Walden and Cosell who proposed the symetrical Telnet design.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John Day <jeanjour@comcast.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> braden@ISI.EDU; internet-history@postel.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, June 30, 2012 6:10 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ih] FTP Design<br> </font> </div> <br>
That would figure.<br><br>Who came up with the symmetrical Telnet design? I remember Alex <br>wrote it up after the meeting (or at least Grossman told me Alex was <br>writing it up), but when I "blamed" him for it ;-), he wouldn't take <br>the credit.<br><br>When you can bring symmetry to a problem that everyone else thought <br>was asymmetrical, it is truly inspired.<br><br>Too bad we haven't seen more of those over the last couple of decades.<br><br>John<br><br>At 14:46 -0700 2012/06/30, Bob Braden wrote:<br>>John Day wrote:<br>><br>>> Actually, I believe that Telnet and FTP got an uncommon number of<br>>> things right. I think the idea of having replies that were both<br>>> machine and human readable was brilliant. I forget who came up with<br>>> it but I think it was Postel and a couple of others.<br>><br>>I believe the reply convention was pure Postel.<br>><br>>Bob
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