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       Title     : TFTP Option Negotiation Analysis                        
       Author(s) : G. Malkin, A. Harkin
       Filename  : draft-ietf-tftpexts-analysis-00.txt
       Pages     : 3
       Date      : 12/22/1994

The TFTP option negotiation mechanism, proposed in [1], is a 
backward-compatible extension to the TFTP protocol, defined in [2].  It 
allows file transfer options to be negotiated prior to the transfer using a
mechanism which is consistent with TFTP's Request Packet format.  The 
mechanism is kept simple by enforcing a request-respond-acknowledge 
sequence, similar to the lock-step approach taken by TFTP itself.          

This document was written to allay concerns that the presence of options in
a TFTP Request packet might cause pathological behavior on servers which do
not support TFTP option negotiation.                                       

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