Single access to Standard Protocols

Isn't the idea of a single access protocol simple enough that one could

be specified, and a socket reserved for it, before the proposed mail

protocol becomes official? The result would be that MP could be the

first protocol implemented under UULP (or whatever it is to be called),

and the other protocols could be "moved" as soon as any problems in the

official specifications could be worked out, and at the convenience of

implementors.

The single access protocol might have the following commands:

USER
PASS
ACCT
MAIL
FTP
RJS
DRS (?)
HELP (?)
BYE

following Jim White's idea of nested command and reply spaces.

This doesn't address the question of "what is free", or of the

interrelationships between the various protocols, but it doesn't make

those problem any worse, only a little different.

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