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<reference anchor='RFC0161'>

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<title>Solution to the race condition in the ICP</title>
<author initials='A.' surname='Shoshani' fullname='A. Shoshani'>
<organization>System Development Corporation (SDC)</organization></author>
<date month='May' day='19' year='1971' />
<abstract>
<t>In NWG/RFC #143a race condition in the ICP was described and a solution was suggested. The problem arises because the Host-Host protocol does not specify what the NCP should do when it gets more than one request of STR (or RTS) to the same socket. As a result this decision depends on the particular implementation: some may queue these requests (SDC for example), some will refuse a request if the socket is already connected (UCLA for example), etc.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='161' />
</reference>
