SEPTEMBER, 1974, SURVEY OF NEW-PROTOCOL TELNET SERVERS

LAST MONTH'S SURVEY PRODUCED A GRATIFYING AMOUNT OF FEEDBACK CLARIFYING THE STATUS OF SEVERAL SITES; HOWEVER THERE HAVE BEEN VERY FEW CHANGES IN THE STATUS OF HOST SERVERS. THE CHANGES IN THIS MONTH'S LIST, IN NUMERICAL ORDER (HOST NUMBER THROUGHOUT ARE OCTAL):

UCLA-NMC IS NO LONGER A SERVER;
HOST 205 IS NOW BBN-TENEXD, A NEW SYSTEM (BBNB) IS NOW HOST 61;
RAND-RCC WAS ACCIDENTALLY OMITTED FROM THE PREVIOUS LIST;
SDC-LAB HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY ELIMINATED FROM THE LIST UNTIL IT RETURNS
    TO THE NET;
I4-TENEXA (117) IS NOT A SERVER--KI4B-TENEX (217) IS, AND HAS BEEN ADDED
    TO THE LIST;
AMES-67 FIXED A BUG, REVEALING TO THE WORLD THE NEW-PROTOCOL SERVER (NO
    OPTIONS) THAT WAS THERE ALL ALONG;
ISI-DEVTENEX (226) AND USC-ECL (327) HAVE BEEN ADDED.

WHAT FOLLOWS IS AN UPDATE OF THE SUMMARY AND TABULATION THAT APPEARED LAST MONTH.* THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO TO 100% NEW-PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATION.

        TOTAL SERVER HOSTS            34             100%
        NO NEW-PROT SERVER            21              62%
        TOTAL NEW-PROT IMPLEM.        13              38%
        
          NEW-PROT ON SOCKET 27,
          OLD ON SOCKET 1 (2)          6              18%
          NEW-PROT ON 1 AND 27 (3)     6              18%
          NEW-PROT ON 1 ONLY           1               3%

NOTES:
*   ALL DATA IN THIS REPORT WERE GATHERED VIA A SURVEYING PROGRAM RUN AT
    VARIOUS TIMES, PLUS A FEW MANUAL CHECKS TO FILL OUT THE DATA.  WHAT
    IS REPORTED HERE IS THE WAY THE VARIOUS SERVERS WORK AS SEEN BY THE
    NEW-PROTOCOL USER TELNET AT BBNA, AS OF 23 SEPT. 1974.
(2) THESE ARE THE SITES WHOSE OPERATION IS 100% CORRECT ACCORDING TO ALL
    PROTOCOL AND CONVENTIONS, AS I UNDERSTAND THEM.
(3) WE REALIZE THAT SOME OF THE SERVERS THAT APPEAR HERE AS NEW-PROTOCOL
    SERVERS ON SOCKET 1 ARE ACTUALLY SERVERS WHICH ATTEMPT TO
    COMMUNICATE WITH BOTH OLD- AND NEW-PROTOCOL USER TELNETS ACCORDING
    TO WHAT CONTROL SEQUENCES ARE RECEIVED.

TABULATION OF SERVER STATUS FOR ALL SERVER SITES:

HOST HOST SOCKET SOCKET NEW-PROT, OPTIONS

NO. NAME 1 27 IMPLETMENTED(IF ANY)

101     UCLA-CCN        OLD             X
201     UCLA-CCBS       OLD             X
  2     SRI-ARC         OLD             X
102     SRI-AI          OLD             X
  3     UCSB-MOD75      OLD             X
  4     UTAH-10         OLD             X
105     BBN-TENEX       OLD             NEW      I1, 3, 6; O3
205     BBN TENEXD      OLD             NEW      I1, 3, 6; O3
305     BBN-TENEXA      OLD             NEW      I1, 3, 6; O3
106     MIT-DMS         NEW             NEW      I1, 3; O3
206     MIT-AI          OLD             X
306     MIT-ML          OLD             X
  7     RAND-RCC        OLD             X
 11     HARV-10         NEW             X        I1, 3; O3
 12     LL-67           OLD             X
112     LL-TX-2         OLD             X
 13     SU-AI           NEW*            NEW*     I1, 3
 15     CASE-10         OLD             X
 16     CMU-10B         NEW             NEW      I1, 3; O3
116     CMU-10A         NEW             NEW      I1, 3; O3
 17     I4-TENEX        OLD             X
217     KI4B-TENEX      OLD             X
 20     AMES-67         NEW             NEW      NONE
126     USC-ISI         OLD             X
226     ISI-DEVTENEX    OLD             X
 27     USC-44          OLD             X
327     USC-ECL         OLD             X
 32     SDAC-44         OLD             X
 37     CCA-TENEX       OLD             X
 40     PARC-MAXC       OLD             NEW     I1,3,6; O3
 43     UCSD-CC         OLD             NEW     I0(!), 3; O0, 3
 53     OFFICE-1        OLD             X
 54     MIT-MULTICS     NEW             NEW     NONE
 61     BBN-TENEXB      OLD             NEW     I1, 3, 6; O3

KEY TO SERVER STATUS TABLE:

        X       NO SERVER AT THIS SOCKET
        
        I#      OPTION # IMPLEMENTED INCOMING TO USER
                    (SERVER SAYS "WILL #")
        
        O#      OPTION # IMPLEMENTED OUTGOING FROM USER
                    (SERVER SAYS "DO #")
                (# IS OPTION NUMBER IN NEW PROTOCOL.  ALL OPTIONS
                IMPLEMENTED BY ANYONE ARE:
                        0       TRANSMIT-BINARY
                        1       ECHO
                        3       SUPPRESS-GO-AHEAD
                        6       TIMING-MARK)

NOTE: * THERE APPEARS TO BE A MINOR BUG IN SU-AI'S SERVER: IT SEEMS TO

SEND AN IMPROPER RESPONSE TO A REQUEST FOR OPTION 0.

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