[ih] FTP Design

[John Day]

That would figure.

Who came up with the symmetrical Telnet design?  I remember Alex 
wrote it up after the meeting (or at least Grossman told me Alex was 
writing it up), but when I "blamed" him for it ;-), he wouldn't take 
the credit.

When you can bring symmetry to a problem that everyone else thought 
was asymmetrical, it is truly inspired.

Too bad we haven't seen more of those over the last couple of decades.

John

At 14:46 -0700 2012/06/30, Bob Braden wrote:
>John Day wrote:
>
>>  Actually, I believe that Telnet and FTP got an uncommon number of
>>  things right.  I think the idea of having replies that were both
>>  machine and human readable was brilliant.  I forget who came up with
>>  it but I think it was Postel and a couple of others.
>
>I believe the reply convention was pure Postel.
>
>Bob Braden