Internet & networking · 1969
RFC 1: Host Software
Network Working Group · Request for Comments 1 · 7 April 1969
The first Request for Comments: the planned host software of the ARPA Network and its first experiments.
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Part of the series The origins of the Internet.
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- A2
- License
- Free reproduction (RFC Editor)
- Source
- rfc-editor.org
- Retrieved
- 27 September 2026
- Language
- English
- Rights holder
- Steve Crocker, 1969
Theme
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US formats
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- Letter8.5 × 11 in
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- 18 × 24 in
- 24 × 36 in
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Edition
RFC Editor plain-text edition, put into machine readable form by Celeste Anderson in 1997. The heading block and the note of that edition are in the footer; page headers and footers are left out; the misspellings of the original are kept.
Rights
All RFCs may be freely reproduced and translated (unmodified).
RFC Editor, https://www.rfc-editor.org/faq/. RFC 1 itself carries no copyright notice.
