[ih] FTP Design

[Bernie Cosell]

On 30 Jun 2012 at 18:10, John Day wrote:

> 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.

Well, I probably mostly did that.  I did the will/wont/do/dont stuff on 
the airplane as Walden and I were flying out to some meeting [at UCLA, I 
think] where we addressed telnet.

It was clear from my work with the TIP [I was the TIP czar at the time] 
that the asymmetry in the protocol was just not right.  What I was 
thinking about was host<->host connections where there was really no 
point in having one end be the 'server' and the other be the 'client'.

  /Bernie\

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