Re: London incidents

[Robert E.Seastrom <rs () seastrom com>]

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

> In message <87mzotpkm7.fsf () valhalla seastrom com>, "Robert E.Seastrom" writes:
> > Brad Knowles <brad () 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