[ih] RFC 495

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Bob Braden <braden at ISI.EDU>

    >> From: John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com>

    >> It refers to two attachments,
    >>    "(TELNET Protocol Specification, NIC #15372, and TELNET
    >>    Option Specifications, NIC #15373)"

    > They are NIC documents that were never directly part of the RFC series.
    > They may exist in Jake Feinler's archive of NIC documents (or now in
    > the Computer Museum in Mountain View).

    > I am ccing the history list, in hopes that someone out there might have
    > copies.

Alas, I don't, but I have a suggestion.

My copy of the "ARPANet Protocol Handbook" (NIC 7104, Rev. January 1978) has
later versions of these two (NIC 18639 for TELNET, and NIC 18640 for the
Options). An earlier revision of this book (I see one listed from December,
1974, but that might not be early enough, because NIC 18639 is dated August,
1973) might have the earlier versions. Alas, while I have many different revs
of the 1822 spec in my library, I only have the 1978 version of the APH...

Interestingly, many of the *other* TELNET spec documents in the January, 1978
version of the APH appear to be of the same earlier vintage as the two base
TELNET documents in question; e.g. BINARY Option, NIC 15389 (August, 1973);
ECHO Option, NIC 15390 (August, 1973); etc. What's even more interesting is
that the date on these is the same as the date on the (presumably later) NIC
18639/18640, leaving me somewhat curious as to what differences (if any) there
are between 15372/15373 and 18639/18640. I note that 18639/18640 was printed
on some device that handled variable-width fonts, whereas 15389/15390/etc were
all clearly printed on a line-printer - I wonder if that's the only difference
(given the likely identical dates)?

If nobody else can find any of this stuff, I can certainly scan/OCR in
18639/18640, if those would be of any use (assuming they aren't in fact
identical to some later RFC, something I have not as yet checked).

	Noel