Re: my 2 cents worth

Ian Duncan <id@cc.mcgill.ca> Tue, 07 June 1994 23:18 UTC

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On Tue, 7 Jun 1994, Michael D'Errico wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> I'm terribly sorry!  I misinterpreted what you were trying to say, and
> my response was unwarranted.  You meant that the link might not be TCP,
> but a serial line or something similar, right?
 

Yep. I'm a bit guilt too -- I did understand your original point and
really wasn't trying to misrepresent it -- I was just a bit careless. 

And actually I wasn't even connecting it into issues of underlying
transport. All I was trying to do was flag the 8 bit assumption since
we've been flogged by it in the SMTP realm. There's nothing I see in
either of the two reference documents I've got close at hand -- RFC1081
and 'draft-rose-again' -- about constraining the character set and my
conservative posture when interpreting protocol spec's set off warnings --
that's all.

BTW After scanning both documents again it seems to me that TCP is the
only considered transport. Sigh. 

   ...   ian   <id@cc.mcgill.ca>
Ian Duncan  ---  McGill University Computing Centre  ---  +.514.398.3710