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<title abbrev='The Point-to-Point Protocol'>The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)</title>
<author initials='W.' surname='Simpson' fullname='William Allen Simpson'>
<organization>Daydreamer, Computer Systems Consulting Services</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>1384 Fontaine</street>
<city>Madison Heights</city>
<region>MI</region>
<code>48071</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu</email></address></author>
<date month='December' year='1993' />
<abstract>
<t>The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard method for transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links.  PPP is comprised of three main components:</t>
<t>1. A method for encapsulating multi-protocol datagrams.</t>
<t>2. A Link Control Protocol (LCP) for establishing, configuring, and testing the data-link connection.</t>
<t>3. A family of Network Control Protocols (NCPs) for establishing and configuring different network-layer protocols.</t>
<t>This document defines the PPP organization and methodology, and the PPP encapsulation, together with an extensible option negotiation mechanism which is able to negotiate a rich assortment of configuration parameters and provides additional management functions.  The PPP Link Control Protocol (LCP) is described in terms of this mechanism.</t>
<t>This document is the product of the Point-to-Point Protocol Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).  Comments should be submitted to the ietf-ppp@ucdavis.edu mailing list.</t></abstract></front>

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