[ih] IEN's as txt

Joe Touch touch at isi.edu
Thu Feb 9 16:29:21 PST 2017


Hi, all,

I maintain an archive of these here at the Postel Center:

http://www.postel.org/ien/txt/

http://www.postel.org/ien/pdf/

If you do generate a verified txt of any of the PDFs not already
text-ed, please let me know.

Joe (as list admin)


On 2/9/2017 4:02 PM, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
> Bob,
>
> I did push IEN81 through an OCR tool with much the same result.
> Many thanks for the offer though!
>
> I won't have time for the manual patch up job until later in the
> year.
>
> ---
>
> All,
>
> My underlying motive for this is to understand the changes to
> TCP (and IP/ICMP/UDP) in the 1978-1981 time frame, and diff's
> of the IEN's and RFC's would help. Perhaps this analysis has
> already been done?
>
> One thing that surprised me is that the closing mechanics in the
> TCP state diagram kept changing until very late. Perhaps it
> was just a matter of ever more precise specification, but if it
> was conceptual change it would seem odd that it did not show up
> earlier in the testing process and 'bake offs'.
>
> Same goes for ICMP: it was a late arrival and the rationale for
> abandoning the earlier approach is not entirely clear.
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 10 Feb 2017, at 0:36 , Bob Hinden wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> I did an OCR of IEN55 in Adobe and saved the text.  It’s not pretty, and would require a lot of editing to be useful.
>>
>> Let me know if you would like me to send it to you.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>>> On Feb 9, 2017, at 1:56 PM, Paul Ruizendaal <pnr at planet.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for IEN81 and IEN55 as text files. It seems that they are only available as PDF scans.
>>> Does anyone know where to find those IEN's as .txt files? Or is OCR'ing my only route?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
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