[ih] FTP Design

[Vint Cerf]

tcp was designed the way it was for the same reason: symmetry between hosts.

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On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Bernie Cosell <bernie at fantasyfarm.com> wrote:
> 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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