{ "draft": null, "doc_id": "RFC946", "title": "Telnet terminal location number option", "authors": [ "R. Nedved" ], "format": [ "TEXT", "HTML" ], "page_count": "4", "pub_status": "PROPOSED STANDARD", "status": "PROPOSED STANDARD", "source": "Legacy", "abstract": "Many systems provide a mechanism for finding out where a user is logged in from usually including information about telephone extension and office occupants names. The information is useful for physically locating people and/or calling them on the phone. In 1982 CMU designed and implemented a terminal location database and modified existing network software to handle a 64-bit number called the Terminal Location Number (or TTYLOC). It now seems appropriate to incorporate this mechanism into the TCP-based network protocol family. The mechanism is not viewed as a replacement for the Terminal Location Telnet Option (SEND-LOCATION) but as a shorthand mechansim for communicating terminal location information between hosts in a localized community. This RFC proposes a new option for Telnet for the ARPA-Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.", "pub_date": "May 1985", "keywords": [ "TOPT-TLN" ], "obsoletes": [], "obsoleted_by": [], "updates": [], "updated_by": [], "see_also": [], "doi": "10.17487/RFC946", "errata_url": null }