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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Regarding "voila!" or
not: What Bernie presented was clearly a good idea and I remember
immediate acceptance that the idea should be pushed ahead. However,
there was still lots to do, lots of prior cases to be checked and looked
at to make sure they would still be handled, lots of people to have their
say, etc. Because of this thread over the past few days, I have now
modified (and Bernie' has reviewed) the place on my website where I
already had three relevant papers posted to make it more of a pointer
into this area of history. See </blockquote>
<a href="http://walden-family.com/dave/#ref-telnet">
http://walden-family.com/dave/#ref-telnet</a> <br><br>
I have skimmed through the various documents in the last couple of days,
and it is interesting to review some of the details, all the people
involved (e.g., at least five of us who have contributed to this
discussion in the past few days are mentioned in RFC 495), what issues
were considered, and that there was some anticipation of a similar
approach with other protocols. Bernie had his idea in the context
of lots of people already struggling with the prior ad hoc version of
Telnet and context of his need to do something practical in the TIP;
perhaps this is one of those cases (which we hear about in technology
history) where the intersection of constraints resulted in the
"simple" idea.<br>
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