RFC Errata
Found 3 records.
Status: Verified (1)
RFC 2217, "Telnet Com Port Control Option", October 1997
Source of RFC: LegacyArea Assignment: sec
Errata ID: 4551
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Marko Kohtala
Date Reported: 2015-12-04
Verifier Name: Roman Danyliw
Date Verified: 2022-05-10
Section 0 says:
Remove Service
It should say:
Remote Service
Notes:
Definition of Terms contains a simple spelling error. Illustration on next page shows correct spelling.
Status: Reported (1)
RFC 2217, "Telnet Com Port Control Option", October 1997
Source of RFC: LegacyArea Assignment: sec
Errata ID: 8694
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Jörn Heissler
Date Reported: 2026-01-05
Throughout the document, when it says:
Client to Access Server Access Server to Client
SIGNATURE text text
SET-BAUDRATE 1 101
SET-DATASIZE 2 102
It should say:
Client to Access Server Access Server to Client
SIGNATURE 0 100
SET-BAUDRATE 1 101
SET-DATASIZE 2 102
Notes:
The full SIGNATURE command is specified as:
IAC SB COM-PORT-OPTION SIGNATURE <text> IAC SE
I.e. "SIGNATURE" must be a valid integer value and not "text".
It seems likely that this should have been 0 (Client to Access Server) and 100 (Access Server to Client).
At least one vendor understood and implemented it that way:
https://www.hw-group.com/files/download/protocol/version/nvt_1-0-0.pdf
Status: Held for Document Update (1)
RFC 2217, "Telnet Com Port Control Option", October 1997
Source of RFC: LegacyArea Assignment: sec
Errata ID: 4407
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Jeremy Visser
Date Reported: 2015-06-29
Held for Document Update by: Barry Leiba
Date Held: 2015-06-30
Section Discussion says:
By in large
It should say:
By and large
Notes:
"By in large" is an eggcorn. It should read "By and large".