Network Working Group J. Postel
Request for Comments: 854 J. Reynolds
ISI
Obsoletes: NIC 18639 May 1983
TELNET PROTOCOL SPECIFICATION
This RFC specifies a standard for the ARPA Internet community. Hosts on
the ARPA Internet are expected to adopt and implement this standard.
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of the TELNET Protocol is to provide a fairly general,
bi-directional, eight-bit byte oriented communications facility. Its
primary goal is to allow a standard method of interfacing terminal
devices and terminal-oriented processes to each other. It is
envisioned that the protocol may also be used for terminal-terminal
communication ("linking") and process-process communication
(distributed computation).