RFC 151 (rfc151) - Page 2 of 2

Comments on a proffered official ICP: RFCs 123, 127

RFC 19                                                      October 1969


1. In RFC 123 (bottom of Page 2) it is suggested that the byte size for the
   connection to the server socket L is 32. However, in the modifications
   to second level protocol (RDC 107) it is specified that it is up to the
   sending process to chose the byte size. According to the Host-Host
   protocol, NCPs should be prepared to accept messages in any byte size
   (1RFC 127, I disagree with the comment "send 32 bits of data in one
   message" because it is a second level protocol decision that a message
   can be sent in any size pieces and the size is to be specified through
   the ALL mechanism. In particular, there may be hosts which are not
   prepared to accept more than few bytes at a time (TIPs).

In general we should not make second level decisions in a third level
protocol.






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