Re: environment option draft

Jordan Brown <jbrown@qdeck.com> Tue, 12 October 1993 22:49 UTC

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From: Jordan Brown <jbrown@qdeck.com>
To: marjo@hpindsy.cup.hp.com
Subject: Re: environment option draft
Cc: telnet-ietf@cray.com
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 15:32:54 -0700
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> I suggest that in order to maximize the probability of future interoperability 
> with implementors of RFC 1408 that we require that the heuristics be 
> implemented.

RFC 1408 was a botch all around, and I for one don't want to encourage
use of it.  I'm quite unlikely to support the RFC 1408 ENVIRON option AT ALL.