RFC 197 (rfc197) - Page 1 of 5

Initial Connection Protocol - Reviewed

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Network Working Group                        A.Shoshani, SDC
Request for Comment # 197                   E. Harslem, Rand
NIC # 7142                                      14 July 1971
Categories:  C.3, D.1
Updates:  None
Obsoletes:  None

         INITIAL CONNECTION PROTOCOL--REVIEWED

INTRODUCTION
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     At the Network meeting preceding the SJCC '71, an
"ICP Committee" was established.  It's purpose was to get
"something" working fast with minimum modifications to the
current ICP so as to minimize complaints.  (This seems like
a good definition for almost everything!)  Consequently,
those who had objections to the current ICP were interviewed
and a compromise was reached in the form of RFC #165.  The
ICP committee didn't have a chance to think about an alter-
native because of the above mentioned constraints.  In this
note we attempted a simple version of an ICP assuming that
we can add commands to Host-Host protocol. We hope that this
will be useful in the design of the next version of the
Host-Host protocol.

ICP COMMANDS
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     To establish a regular connection one party can issue
an INIT (NCP sends RTS or STR commands), then the other
party can accept the request for connection by responding
with an INIT or refusing it with a CLOSE.  We think that
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