RFC 939 (rfc939) - Page 1 of 20
Executive summary of the NRC report on transport protocols for Department of Defense data networks
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group National Research Council
Request for Comments: 939
February 1985
Executive Summary
of the NRC Report on
Transport Protocols for
Department of Defense
Data Networks
STATUS OF THIS MEMO
This RFC is distributed for information only. This RFC does not
establish any policy for the DARPA research community or the DDN
operational community. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
INTRODUCTION
This RFC reproduces the material from the "front pages" of the
National Research Council report resulting from a study of the DOD
Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in
comparison with the ISO Internet Protocol (ISO-IP) and Transport
Protocol level 4 (TP-4). The point of this RFC is to make the text
of the Executive Summary widely available in a timely way. The order
of presentation has been altered, and the pagination changed.
The title of the full report is:
Transport Protocols for
Department of Defense
Data Networks
Report to the Department of Defense
and the National Bureau of Standards
Committee on Computer-Computer Communication Protocols
Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications Commission on
Engineering and Technical Systems
National Research Council
National Academy Press
Washington, D.C. February 1985
National Research Council