protocol
Protocol may refer to:
Sociology and politics
* Protocol (politics)
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WWIVNet
WWIVnet was a bulletin board system (BBS) network for WWIV-based BBSes. It was created by Wayne Bell on December 1, 1987.internet
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, instead of point-to-point connections between
modem
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RS-232
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)
modem
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connections which might not have an
error correction
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layer. These
dial-up
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-oriented protocols for transferring FidoNet traffic lik EMSI or ZMODEM had to implement error-recovery. When the members of FidoNet started to use
TCP/IP
The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria. The foundational protocols in the suite are ...
to transfer FidoNet traffic, this error-recovery overhead became unnecessary. Assuming that the connection is reliable makes it possible to eliminate error-checking and unnecessary synchronization steps, achieving both ease of implementation and improved performance. The major advantage of binkp vs EMSI and ZMODEM is achieved over connections with large delays and low bandwidth.
IANA (
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
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) has registered the port number 24554 for binkp when used over TCP/IP connections.
History
*In 1996, Dima Maloff released the first draft of the protocol specification and the first mailer, binkd, that supported the new protocol.
*In 1997 Argus mailer began to support the binkp protocol.
*In 1999, Dima Maloff, Nick Soveiko and Maxim Masiutin submitted the protocol specification to the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee FTSC , which published the document as Fidonet Standards Proposal FSP-1011 .
*In 2005, FTSC assigned the Fidonet Technical Standard (FTS) status to the binkp protocol, and split the specification into four separate documents: Binkp/1.0 Protocol specification FTS-1026 {{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527130438/http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-1026.001 , date=2022-05-27 ), Binkp/1.0 optional protocol extension CRAM FTS-1027 , Binkp protocol extension Non-reliable Mode FTS-1028 , and Binkp optional protocol extension Dataframe Compression FTS-1029 .
*On October 2, 2015, WWIV BBS's