USER/SERVER SITE PROTOCOL

NETWORK HOST QUESTIONNAIRE

        The answer to a number of questions about the characteristics
and operation of Network HOSTS will be useful to implementers of some
early versions of TELNET, and/or to the USER/SERVER SITE PROTOCOL
Committee in their consideration of a full TELNET PROTOCOL
specification.

        Questions of current interest are covered on the attached
questionnaire.  The Technical Liaison contact at each HOST site is asked
to review these questions and fill in the answers as soon as convenient
after receipt.

One of the members of the committee listed below will contact

each HOST site by telephone in the next few days to record the answers.

Committee members include:

         Bob Long                   SDC
         
         John Melvin                SRI/ARC
         
         Ed Meyer                   MIT/MAC
         
         Tom O'Sullivan             RDS

Results of the questionnaire will be tabulated and distributed

as an RFC.

For TELNET Consideration

Installation __________________________ Prepared By _______________

System** _____________________________ Date _____________________

1.)    Does system operate on keyboard terminal input on one

       character at a time (e.g. searching for a special
       character other than end of line), or does it accumulate
       a line at a time and operate on the line when a
       special character is entered, e.g. Carriage Return (CR)?

         [ ]  Line at time

         [ ]  Character at time

[ ] Both (Explain) __________________________________

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2.)    What maximum buffer size does your system provide for
       input of a physical line from a keyboard terminal, and
       for output to a terminal, printer, or screen?

            Input______Char

            Output_____Char

       Remarks: ____________________________________________________

       _____________________________________________________________

       _____________________________________________________________

       _____________________________________________________________

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 * If there is insufficient space on the questionnaire, continue
   answers on back of page.

** Fill out separate questionnaire for each HOST to be directly

interfaced to an IMP.

3.)    Describe the effect in your system of use of the following
       keying conventions.  Indicate how implemented, i.e. is there
       a hardware interrupt?  Does the terminal respond?  How?
       What is sent into system as data, what is echoed, etc.
       If the key(s) are not available, so indicate (as may be
       the case for Newline for some systems, line feed for 2741's,
       etc.). If available but has no meaning, so indicate.

       Key Strokes        Implementation           System Action

CR __________________________ __________________

LF __________________________ __________________

NL __________________________ __________________

CR,LF __________________________ __________________

Terminal Type = __________________________

If appropriate, enter data for other terminal types on the back of this page.

4.)    What special character or characters are used in your
       system to awaken some process during the entry of data
       from a terminal (e.g. control C for some systems, break on
       others, etc.)?

       Character(s)                 Operation

       ___________    ___________________________________________

       ___________    ___________________________________________

       ___________    ___________________________________________

       ___________    ___________________________________________

5.) List the types of keyboard terminals and codes supported

by your system.

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6.)    What internal code(s) is used in your system to represent
       character sets?  If not ASCII nor EBCDIC, attach a copy of
       the code.

       __________________________________________________________

       __________________________________________________________

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7.) For each terminal type do you support it in:

       Half Duplex (Pure) _______________________________________
       
       Half Duplex (with Break or Attention) ____________________
       
       Half Duplex (Break & Reverse Break) ______________________
       
       Full Duplex (without echo) _______________________________
       
       Full Duplex (with echo) __________________________________

8.) For optional echo systems, at initial connect time

is the terminal assumed to require an echo?

            [ ] Yes
            
            [ ] No

9.)   Does your system perform error detection (e.g. parity
      check) on terminal input and, if so, is this a hardware
      or software check?

      _____________________________________________________________

      _____________________________________________________________

      _____________________________________________________________

10.) Does your system support punched paper tape input? If so,

what sort of end of line sequence is used?

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