NETWORK WORKING GROUP NIC 5776
Request for Comments #106 Thomas O'Sullivan
 RDS
 3 March 1971
 USER/SERVER SITE PROTOCOL
 NETWORK HOST QUESTIONNAIRE
 The answer to a number of questions about the characteristics
and operation of Network HOSTS will be useful to implementers of some
early versions of TELNET, and/or to the USER/SERVER SITE PROTOCOL
Committee in their consideration of a full TELNET PROTOCOL
specification.
 Questions of current interest are covered on the attached
questionnaire. The Technical Liaison contact at each HOST site is asked
to review these questions and fill in the answers as soon as convenient
after receipt.
 One of the members of the committee listed below will contact
each HOST site by telephone in the next few days to record the answers.
 Committee members include:
 Bob Long SDC
 John Melvin SRI/ARC
 Ed Meyer MIT/MAC
 Tom O'Sullivan RDS
 Results of the questionnaire will be tabulated and distributed
as an RFC.
 For TELNET Consideration
Installation __________________________ Prepared By _______________
System** _____________________________ Date _____________________
1.) Does system operate on keyboard terminal input on one
 character at a time (e.g. searching for a special
 character other than end of line), or does it accumulate
 a line at a time and operate on the line when a
 special character is entered, e.g. Carriage Return (CR)?
 [ ] Line at time
 [ ] Character at time
 [ ] Both (Explain) __________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
2.) What maximum buffer size does your system provide for
 input of a physical line from a keyboard terminal, and
 for output to a terminal, printer, or screen?
 Input______Char
 Output_____Char
 Remarks: ____________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
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 * If there is insufficient space on the questionnaire, continue
 answers on back of page.
** Fill out separate questionnaire for each HOST to be directly
 interfaced to an IMP.
3.) Describe the effect in your system of use of the following
 keying conventions. Indicate how implemented, i.e. is there
 a hardware interrupt? Does the terminal respond? How?
 What is sent into system as data, what is echoed, etc.
 If the key(s) are not available, so indicate (as may be
 the case for Newline for some systems, line feed for 2741's,
 etc.). If available but has no meaning, so indicate.
 Key Strokes Implementation System Action
 CR __________________________ __________________
 LF __________________________ __________________
 NL __________________________ __________________
 CR,LF __________________________ __________________
 Terminal Type = __________________________
 If appropriate, enter data for other terminal types on the
 back of this page.
4.) What special character or characters are used in your
 system to awaken some process during the entry of data
 from a terminal (e.g. control C for some systems, break on
 others, etc.)?
 Character(s) Operation
 ___________ ___________________________________________
 ___________ ___________________________________________
 ___________ ___________________________________________
 ___________ ___________________________________________
5.) List the types of keyboard terminals and codes supported
 by your system.
 __________________________________________________________
 __________________________________________________________
 __________________________________________________________
6.) What internal code(s) is used in your system to represent
 character sets? If not ASCII nor EBCDIC, attach a copy of
 the code.
 __________________________________________________________
 __________________________________________________________
 __________________________________________________________
7.) For each terminal type do you support it in:
 Half Duplex (Pure) _______________________________________
 Half Duplex (with Break or Attention) ____________________
 Half Duplex (Break & Reverse Break) ______________________
 Full Duplex (without echo) _______________________________
 Full Duplex (with echo) __________________________________
8.) For optional echo systems, at initial connect time
 is the terminal assumed to require an echo?
 [ ] Yes
 [ ] No
9.) Does your system perform error detection (e.g. parity
 check) on terminal input and, if so, is this a hardware
 or software check?
 _____________________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
10.) Does your system support punched paper tape input? If so,
 what sort of end of line sequence is used?
 _____________________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________
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