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NWG/RFC# 748 MRC 1-APR-78 44125
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Telnet Randomly-Lose Option
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Network Working Group M. Crispin
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Request for Comments 748 SU-AI
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NIC 44125 1 April 1978
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TELNET RANDOMLY-LOSE Option
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1. Command name and code.
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RANDOMLY-LOSE 256
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2. Command meanings.
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IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE
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The sender of this command REQUESTS permission to, or confirms
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that it will, randomly lose.
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IAC WON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE
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The sender of this command REFUSES to randomly lose.
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IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE
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The sender of this command REQUESTS that the receiver, or grants
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the receiver permission to, randomly lose.
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IAC DON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE
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The command sender DEMANDS that the receiver not randomly lose.
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3. Default.
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WON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE
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DON'T RANDOMLY-LOSE
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i.e., random lossage will not happen.
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4. Motivation for the option.
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Several hosts appear to provide random lossage, such as system
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crashes, lost data, incorrectly functioning programs, etc., as part
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of their services. These services are often undocumented and are in
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general quite confusing to the novice user. A general means is
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needed to allow the user to disable these features.
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NWG/RFC# 748 MRC 1-APR-78 44125
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Telnet Randomly-Lose Option
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5. Description of the option.
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The normal mode does not allow random lossage; therefore the system
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is not allowed to crash, mung user files, etc. If the server wants
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to provide random lossage, it must first ask for permission from the
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user by sending IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE.
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If the user wants to permit the server to randomly lose, it replys
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with IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE. Otherwise it sends IAC DONT
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RANDOMLY-LOSE, and the server is forbidden from randomly losing.
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Alternatively, the user could request the server to randomly lose, by
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sending IAC DO RANDOMLY-LOSE, and the server will either reply with
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IAC WILL RANDOMLY-LOSE, meaning that it will then proceed to do some
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random lossage (garbaging disk files is recommended for an initial
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implementation). Or, it could send IAC WONT RANDOMLY-LOSE, meaning
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that it insists upon being reliable.
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Since this is implemented as a TELNET option, it is expected that
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servers which do not implement this option will not randomly lose;
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ie, they will provide 100% reliable uptime.
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