[ih] Correct name for early TCP/IP working group?

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Sat Jan 25 07:42:26 PST 2025


John Day wrote:
> Then NCP operated process-to-process over that. NCP carried socket
> ids, not host ids.

And links.

RFC (STR or RTS) and CLS messages identify a connection by the remote
and local socket numbers.  Data messages and flow control identify the
connection by the link number set up during RFC.  (I recently wrote a
new NCP to test an emulated ARPANET.)


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