RFNM
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... HOST, as opposed to its IMP, control RFNM's?" BBN, Report No. 1837,
1969 Jul, says on page 2: "The principal function of the (IMP ...
... principal function of the (IMP)
program...includes...generating of RFNM's..." What if an IMP
generates an RFNM ...
... RFNM's..." What if an IMP
generates an RFNM and then discovers it cannot, for some reason,
complete timely delivery of the last received message to its HOST ...
... link table is made during
transmission from the source IMP and is unblocked when the RFNM
returns. Only non-blocked transmit link entries are deleted ...
... most one more message may possibly arrive at that IMP due to the
premature release of the RFNM. The new message will subsequently
take its place at the end of the output queue to the Host ...