Update on the RFC Online Project (2008)


The RFC Online project is an effort to bring all the early RFCs online. For more information on this project, see the RFC Online project page from 2000.

We have recently made available the following RFCs (the majority of links below are to PDFs). Please use the RFC Search Engine to retrieve the complete metadata and to check for availability in ASCII.

Number Title Date
RFC0008
ARPA Network Functional Specifications  May 1969
RFC0009
Host software May 1969
RFC0011
Implementation of the Host-Host software procedures in GORDO August 1969
RFC0051
Proposal for a Network Interchange Language May 1970
RFC0074
Specifications for network use of the UCSB On-Line System October 1970
RFC0109
Level III Server Protocol for the Lincoln Laboratory NIC 360/67Host March 1971
RFC0110
Conventions for using an IBM 2741 terminal as a user console for access to network server hosts March 1971
RFC0112
User/Server Site Protocol: Network host questionnaire responses April 1971
RFC0119
Network Fortran subprograms April 1971
RFC0158
Telnet Protocol: A Proposed Document May 1971
RFC0165
Proffered official Initial Connection Protocol May 1971
RFC0169
Computer networks May 1971
RFC0183
EBCDIC codes and their mapping to ASCII July 1971
RFC0199
Suggestions for a network data-tablet graphics protocol July 1971
RFC0206
User Telnet - description of an initial implementation August 1971
RFC0211
ARPA Network mailing lists August 1971
RFC0216
Telnet access to UCSB's On-Line System September 1971
RFC0296
DS-1 display system January 1972
RFC0304
Data management system proposal for the ARPA network February 1972
RFC0320
Workshop on Hard Copy Line Printers March 1972
RFC0360
Proposed Remote Job Entry Protocol June 1972
RFC0403
Desirability of a network 1108 service January 1973
RFC0418
Server file transfer under TSS/360 at NASA Ames November 1972
RFC0452
TELENET Command at Host LL February 1973
RFC0475
FTP and network mail system March 1973
RFC0493
Graphics Protocol April 1973
RFC0497
Traffic statistics (March 1973) April 1973
RFC0519
Resource evaluation June 1973
RFC0522
Traffic statistics (May 1973) June 1973
RFC0530
Report on the Survey project June 1973
RFC0535
Comments on File Access Protocol July 1973
RFC0551
NYU, ANL, and LBL Joining the Net August 1973
RFC0556
Traffic statistics (July 1973) August 1973
RFC0557
Revelations in network host measurements August 1973
RFC0560
Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing Telnet option August 1973
RFC0562
Modifications to the Telnet specification August 1973
RFC0571
Tenex FTP problem November 1973
RFC0573
Data and file transfer: Some measurement results September 1973
RFC0574
Announcement of a mail facility at UCSB September 1973
RFC0576
Proposal for modifying linking September 1973
RFC0577
Mail priority October 1973
RFC0578
Using MIT-Mathlab MACSYMA from MIT-DMS Muddle October 1973
RFC0579
Traffic statistics (September 1973) November 1973
RFC0581
Corrections to RFC 560: Remote Controlled Transmission and Echoing Telnet Option November 1973
RFC0586
Traffic statistics (October 1973) November 1973
RFC0587
Announcing new Telnet options November 1973
RFC0588
London node is now up October 1973
RFC0592
Some thoughts on system design to facilitate resource sharing November 1973
RFC0594
Speedup of Host-IMP interface December 1973
RFC0598
RFC index - December 5, 1973 December 1973
RFC0600
Interfacing an Illinois plasma terminal to the ARPANET November 1973
RFC0616
Latest network maps February 1973
RFC0645
Network Standard Data Specification syntax June 1974
RFC0647
Proposed protocol for connecting host computers to ARPA-like networks via front end processors November 1974
RFC0661
Protocol information November 1974
RFC0667
BBN host ports December 1974
RFC0669
November, 1974, survey of New-Protocol Telnet servers December 1974
RFC0671
Note on Reconnection Protocol December 1974
RFC0679
February, 1975, survey of New-Protocol Telnet servers February 1975
RFC0694
Protocol information June 1975
RFC0696
Comments on the IMP/Host and Host/IMP Protocol changes July 1975
RFC0712
Distributed Capability Computing System (DCCS) February 1976
RFC0714
Host-Host Protocol for an ARPANET-Type Network April 1976

Please let us know if you have a copy of RFC 254 or 500:

Number Title Date
RFC0254
Scenarios for using ARPANET computers October 1971
RFC0500
Integration of data management systems on a computer network April 1973

Also, please let us know if you have a better copy of RFC 8 or RFC 598.


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Last modified 14 November 2008.