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#finger has an origin at least going back to 1971.
#IETF #RFC742 was written to document the existing #fingerProtocol , as it was (implicitly) defined by software.
I.e., finger had been around and was evolving AT LEAST 6 years before RFC-742 was published.
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Two specifications were created for the #fingerProtocol:
• #IETF #RFC742 (published in 1977)
• #IETF #RFC1288 (published in 1991)Neither of them were about creating the finger-protocol.
The finger-protocol existed and was evolving AT LEAST 6 YEARS BEFORE the IETF RFC-742 specification was written!
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.( #finger #fingerHole #fingerverse )
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The #fingerProtocol — except without any 7-bit ASCII restrictions — that were (from a specification(s) point-of-view) added in #IETF #RFC1288 , but didn't exist in #IETF #RFC742 .