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 commu