Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network
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Independent Submission A. McKenzie
Request for Comments: 6529 S. Crocker
Category: Historic April 2012
ISSN: 2070-1721
Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network
Abstract
This document reproduces the Host/Host Protocol developed by the ARPA
Network Working Group during 1969, 1970, and 1971. It describes a
protocol used to manage communication between processes residing on
independent Hosts. It addresses issues of multiplexing multiple
streams of communication (including addressing, flow control,
connection establishment/disestablishment, and other signaling) over
a single hardware interface. It was the official protocol of the
ARPA Network from January 1972 until the switch to TCP/IP in January
1983. It is offered as an RFC at this late date to help complete the
historical record available through the RFC series.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for the historical record.
This document defines a Historic Document for the Internet community.
This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independent of any other
RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at
its discretion and makes no statement about its value for
implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by
the RFC Editor are not a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6529.
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Copyright Notice
Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the
document authors. All rights reserved.
This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
2. A Few Comments on Nomenclature and Key Concepts .................4
3. Host/Host Protocol Document .....................................5
(with its own table of contents on page 7)
4. Security Considerations ........................................34
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1. Introduction
The Host/Host Protocol for the ARPA Network was created during 1969,
1970, and 1971 by the Network Working Group, chaired by Steve
Crocker, a graduate student at UCLA. Many of the RFCs with numbers
less than 72, plus RFCs 102, 107, 111, 124, 132, 154, and 179 dealt
with the development of this protocol. The first official document
defining the protocol was issued by Crocker on August 3, 1970 as
"Host-Host Protocol Document No. 1" (see citation in RFC 65), which
was based on RFC 54 by Crocker, Postel, Newkirk, and Kraley.
Revision of Document No. 1 began in mid-February 1971, as discussed
in RFC 102. Although McKenzie is listed as the author of the January
1972 document, which superseded Document No. 1, it is more correct to
say McKenzie was the person who compiled and edited the document.
Most or all of the ideas in the document originated with others.
At the time "Host-Host Protocol Document No. 1" was issued it was not
given an RFC number because it was not to be viewed as a "request for
comments" but as a standard for implementation. It was one of a set
of such standards maintained as a separate set of documentation by
the Network Information Center (NIC) at Stanford Research Institute
(SRI). The January 1972 version (NIC 8246) reproduced here also
followed that approach. It has been noted by many that all
subsequent standards were issued as RFCs, and the absence of the
Host/Host Protocol specification from the RFC series creates a
curious gap in the historical record. It is to fill that gap that
this RFC is offered.
In 1972, most ARPA Network documents, RFCs and others, were prepared
and distributed in hard copy. The Host/Host Protocol document was
typed on a typewriter (probably an IBM Selectric), which had
interchangeable print elements, and used both italic and boldface
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