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<reference anchor='RFC0180'>

<front>
<title>File system questionnaire</title>
<author initials='A.' surname='McKenzie' fullname='Alex McKenzie'>
<organization>Bolt Baranek and Newman (BBN)</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>50 Moulton Street</street>
<city>Cambridge</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>02138</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<phone>+1 617 491 1850 x441</phone></address></author>
<date month='June' day='25' year='1971' />
<abstract>
<t>As noted in RFC #164(page 35), a subcommittee of the NWG, under the chairmanship of Abhay Bhushan, is currently generating proposals for a "data transfer protocol" and a "file transfer protocol".</t>
<t>The subcommittee has decided that the file transfer protocol should provide standard methods for requesting the transfer of a file but should not, at this time, attempt to standardize file naming conventions, access control conventions, and the like.  Thus a user who is, for example, trying to store a file on a remote Host will be required to use the file naming conventions appropriate to the remote Host.</t>
<t>Given the above point of view, it becomes imperative for users to have some source of information about Host file conventions.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='180' />
</reference>
