[ih] NCP (was: Separation of TCP and IP)

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 13:50:08 PDT 2022


On 29-Jun-22 04:27, Joe Touch via Internet-history wrote:
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>> On Jun 28, 2022, at 10:26 AM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> Note that Internet Mail is typically referred to as SMTP.
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> Just the push part. The pull is POP or IMAP. Push can exist without pull, but not much these days.

But the *format* doesn't really have an acronymic name, although I've seen it called RFC822 often enough (and RFC2822, RFC5322 much less).

     Brian





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