Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UF.MSC.UMN.EDU!fin From: fin@UF.MSC.UMN.EDU (Craig Finseth) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: historical defaults Message-ID: <8806271410.AA03579@uf.msc.umn.edu> Date: 27 Jun 88 14:10:02 GMT References: <111:nittmann@rusvx1.rus.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 Your suggestion that local echo is acceptable implies that the local host knows exactly when and how to echo locally. As of now, the local host does not know when and how to locally echo (what about display editors such as Emacs and vi?). In the latest IETF meeting (held a couple of weeks ago), there was a discussion about Telnet EXTENSIONS to handle this type of negotiation on a dynamic basis (i.e., negotiate which characters are for editing, how to handle editing, how and when to go in and out of "raw" mode, etc.) Craig A. Finseth fin@uc.msc.umn.edu [CAF13] Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc. (612) 624-3375