London incidents

Mon Jul 11 13:21:24 UTC 2005

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu> writes:

> In message <87mzotpkm7.fsf at valhalla.seastrom.com>, "Robert E.Seastrom" writes:
>>Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org> writes:
>>
>>> 	There were lower levels of priority that you could also use,
>>> but "flash" was the top one that I heard about.
>>
>>The four buttons on the "1633" row of an AUTOVON telephone are labeled
>>P, I, F, and FO for Priority, Immediate, Flash, and Flash-Override.
>>The fifth (normal) level is of course routine, with no priority code
>>attached.
>
> And those levels appear as the TOS bits in RFC 791....

Yes, but nobody ever wrote a song about the TOS bits in Internet
Protocol (this song dates to 1980):

http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00182.html

                                        ---Rob