Network Working Group                                            V. Cerf
Request for Comments: 21                                            UCLA
                                                       October 17, 1969



At UCLA on October 10, there was a network meeting attended by:

          SDC                             UCLA

       John Kreznar                    Vint Cerf
       Dick Linde                      Steve Crocker
       Marty Bleier                    Jon Postel
       Bob Long                        Michel Elie


          UCSB

       Ron Stoughton
       Nancy O'Hara
       George Gregg



Topics discussed:

       1.  Revisions to BBN memo 1822

       2.  Revisions to NWG/RFC 11

       3.  Transmission of multiple control messages



1.  Changes to BBN Memo No. 1822 (underlined)
   As informally communicated by Dave Wa

   p. 11 "The IMP program can handle up to 63 active transmit links
   and 63 active receive links at a time.  If the Host attempts to
   send a message on a new link when 63 active transmit links already
   exist, a "Link Table Full" message will be sent from the IMP to
   the Host, and the message will be discarded."

   p. 11 "1.  Any link that is not used for a period of 26 seconds
      will have its entry automatically deleted by the IMP program."



[Cerf:  How about deleting only if the transmit link table is full?

Crocker:  No, because there is no other way for links to be deleted
          so they would always tend to accumulate.  Furthermore,
          the table at one site may be full while another site may
          not be.]

   p. 13  "5 Regular with discard."

   This allows IMP systems to generate traffic which never actually
   reaches any Hosts since it will be discarded when it reaches the
   top of the IMP-HOST queue in the destination Host's IMP.  The
   Network Measurement Center will make use of this feature.

   p. 13  Message type 6 is no longer assigned, and message type 10
   is really in octal so is actually type 8.  Types 9-15 are unassigned.

   p. 17   Type 10 is really type 8.

2.  Revisions to NWG/RFC 11

   This memo has been obsoleted by developments at UCLA and
   discussions with other nodes.  NWG/RFC 22 contains some of the
   major changes.  An updated version of NWG/RFC 11 is forthcoming.

3.  George Gregg of UCSB will publish NWG/RFC 23 concerning the
   transmission of multiple control messages over control links.

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