RFC 166 (rfc166) - Page 1 of 20
Data Reconfiguration Service: An implementation specification
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Network Working Group Bob Anderson
Request for Comments: 166 Rand
NIC 6780 Vint Cerf
UCLA
Eric Harslem
John Haefner
Rand
Jim Madden
U. of Illinois
Bob Metcalfe
MIT
Arie Shoshani
SDC
Jim White
UCSB
David Wood
Mitre
25 May 1971
DATA RECONFIGURATION SERVICE -- AN IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICATION
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION ................................... 2
Purpose of this RFC ............................ 2
Motivation ..................................... 2
II. OVERVIEW OF THE DATA RECONFIGURATION SERVICE ... 3
Elements of the Data Reconfiguration SERVICE ... 3
Conceptual Network Connections ................. 3
Conception Protocols and Message Formats ....... 4
Example Connection Configurations .............. 7
III. THE FORM MACHINE ............................... 8
Input/Output Streams and Forms ................. 8
Form Machine BNF Syntax ........................ 8
Alternate Specification of Form Machine Syntax . 9
Forms .......................................... 10
Rules .......................................... 10
Terms .......................................... 11
Term Format 1 ................................ 11
Term Format 2 ................................ 11
Term Format 3 ................................ 14
Term Format 4 ................................ 14
Anderson, et al.
