NWG/RFC# 9A9                                  ANO 01-APR-84 32:84  9A9A9
Telnet RANDOMLY-LOSE Option



Network Working Group                                      A. N. Onymous
Request for Comments 9A9                                    FOO-SECURITY
NIC 9A9A9                                                   1 April 1984

		     TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option

1.  Command name and code.

   RANDOMLY-LOSE        256

2.  Command meanings.

   IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE

      The sender of this command  REQUESTS permission to, or  confirms
      that it will, randomly lose.

   IAC WON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE

      The sender of this command REFUSES to randomly lose.

   IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE

      The sender of this command REQUESTS that the receiver, or grants
      the receiver permission to, randomly lose.

   IAC DON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE

      The command sender DEMANDS that the receiver not randomly lose.

3.  Default.

   WON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE

   DON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE

   i.e., random lossage will not happen.
















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NWG/RFC# 9A9                                  ANO 01-APR-84 32:84  9A9A9
Telnet RANDOMLY-LOSE Option


4.  Motivation for the option.

   Several hosts  appear  to  provide random  lossage, such as  system
   crashes, lost data, incorrectly functioning programs, etc., as part
   of their services.  These services  are often undocumented  and are
   in general quite confusing to the novice user.  A general means  is
   needed to allow the user to disable these features.

5.  Description of the option.

   The normal mode does not allow random lossage; therefore the system
   is not allowed to crash, mung user files, etc.  If the server wants
   to provide random lossage,  it must  first ask for permission  from
   the user by sending IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE.

   If the user wants to permit the server to randomly lose,  it replys
   with IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE.   Otherwise it sends  IAC DONT RANDOMLY-
   LOSE, and the server is forbidden from randomly losing.

   Alternatively, the user could request the server to randomly  lose,
   by sending IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE, and  the server  will either reply
   with IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE, meaning that  it will then proceed  to
   do some random lossage (garbaging disk files  is recommended for an
   initial implementation).  Or, it could send IAC WONT RANDOMLY-LOSE,
   meaning that it insists upon being reliable.

   Since this is implemented as a TELNET option,  it is expected  that
   servers which do not implement this option will  not randomly lose;
   ie, they will provide 100% reliable uptime.
























A. N. Onymous                                                      [page 2]