Date   : Wed, 10 Oct 1984 20:23:00 MDT (Wed)
From   : "Frank J. Wancho" <WANCHO@Simtel20.ARPA>
Subject: Yet Another Protocol!

Hot on the tail of the Thinwire Protocol (RFC914), comes RATP!
Interested parties are urged to conduct the discussions concerning
these and other protocols on the PROTOCOLS@RUTGERS mailing list.
Requests to join that list should be sent to
PROTOCOLS-REQUEST@RUTGERS.

--Frank

Date: Wednesday, 10 October 1984  12:09-MDT
From: WESTINE at USC-ISIF.ARPA
To:   Request-for-Comments-List: at USC-ISIF.ARPA
Re:   RFC 916 Now Available

A new Request for Comments is now available from the Network Information
Center in the <RFC> directory at SRI-NIC.ARPA.

RFC 916:

   Title:       Reliable Asynchronous Transfer Protocol (RATP) 
   Author:      Greg Finn
   Mailbox:     Finn@ISIF
   Pages:       53
   Characters:  113815

      pathname: <RFC>RFC916.TXT

Status of This Memo

   This RFC suggests a proposed protocol for the ARPA-Internet 
   community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. 
   Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

   This paper proposes and specifies a protocol which allows two 
   programs to reliably communicate over a communication link.  It 
   ensures that the data entering one end of the link if received 
   arrives at the other end intact and unaltered.  The protocol, named 
   RATP, is designed to operate over a full duplex point-to-point 
   connection.  It contains some features which tailor it to the RS-232 
   links now in common use.

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--jon.