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+Network Working Group				 Dave Crocker, Rand-ISD
+Request for Comments: 729			 (Dcrocker at Rand-Unix)
+NlC: 40306					 13 May l977
+
+
+
+
+			TELNET Byte Macro Option
+
+
+1. Command name and code:
+
+   BM 19
+
+2. Command Meanings:
+
+   IAC WILL BM
+
+	The sender of this  command REQUESTS or AGREES  to use the  BM
+	option, and will send sing1e  data characters which are to  be
+	interpreted as if longer data strings had been sent.
+
+   IAC WON'T BM
+
+	The  sender  of  this  option  REFUSES  to  send  single  data
+	characters which  are  to be  interpreted  as if  longer  data
+	strings had been sent.
+
+   IAC DO BM
+
+	The sender REQUESTS or AGREES to have the other side (send  of
+	WILL BM) issue  send single  data characters which  are to  be
+	interpreted as if longer data strings had been sent.
+
+   IAC DON'T BM
+
+	The sender REFUSES to allow the other side to send single data
+	characters which  are  to be  interpreted  as if  longer  data
+	strings had been sent.
+
+   IAC SB BM <DEFINE> <macro byte> <count>
+                   <expansion string> IAC SE
+	where:
+
+	   <macro byte> is the  data byte actually  to be sent  across
+	   the network; it may NOT be Telnet IAC (decimal 255).
+
+
+RFC #729 Telnet Byte Macro Option				 Page 2
+
+
+
+	   <count> is a  one-byte binary number,  indicating how  many
+	   <expansion string> characters follow, up to the ending  IAC
+	   SE, but not including it.
+
+	   <expansion string> is a string of one or more Telnet  ASCII
+	   characters and/or commands,  which the <macro  byte> is  to
+	   represent; any  character may  occur within  an  <expansion
+	   string>.
+
+	The indicated  <macro  byte>  will  be  sent  instead  of  the
+	indicated <expansion string>. The receiver of the <macro byte>
+	(the sender  of the  DO BM)  is to  behave EXACTLY  as if  the
+	<expansion string> of bytes had instead been received from the
+	network. This  interpretation is  to  occur before  any  other
+	Telnet interpretations, unless the <macro byte> occurs as part
+	of a BM subcommand; in this case no special interpretation  is
+	to be made.
+
+	Note that the effect of a particular <macro byte> may be
+	negated by reseting it to "expand" into itself.
+
+	<DEFINE> is decimal 01.
+
+
+   IAC SB BM <ACCEPT> <macro byte> IAC SE
+
+	The receiver  of the  <DEFINE> for  <macro byte>  accepts  the
+	requested definition and will perform the indicating expansion
+	whenever a <macro byte>  is received and is  not part of a  BM
+	subcommand.
+
+	<ACCEPT> is decimal 02.
+
+
+   IAC SB BM <REFUSE> <macro byte> <REASON> IAC SE
+
+	The receive  of  the  <DEFINE> for  <macro  byte>  refuses  to
+	perform  the  indicated  translation  from  <macro  byte>   to
+	<expansion string> either because the particular <macro  byte>
+	is not  an acceptable  choice  or because  the length  of  the
+	<expansion string> exceeds available storage.
+
+   <REFUSE> is decimal 03.
+
+   <REASON> may be
+
+	   <BAD CHOICE> which is decimal 01; or
+
+	   <TOO LONG> which is decimal 02.
+
+
+RFC #729 Telnet Byte Macro Option				 Page 3
+
+
+
+
+   IAC SB BM <LITERAL> <macro byte> IAC SE
+
+	The <macro byte> is to be treated as real data, rather than as
+	representative of the <expansion string>
+
+	<LITERAL> is decimal 03.
+
+
+
+
+3. Default:
+
+   WON'T BM -- DON'T BM
+
+	No reinterpretation of data is allowed.
+
+4. Motivation for the option:
+
+   Subcommands for Telnet options currently require a minimum of  five
+   characters to be sent over the network (i.e., IAC SB <Option  name>
+   IAC SE).   For sub-commands  which  are employed  infrequently,  in
+   absolute numbers and in relation  to normal data, this overhead  is
+   tolerable. In other cases,  however, it is  not. For example,  data
+   which is  sent  in  a  block-oriented fashion  may  need  a  "block
+   separator" mark. If  blocks are commonly  as small as  five or  ten
+   bytes, then most of the cross-net data will be control information.
+   The BM option is intended  as a simple data compression  technique,
+   to remove this overhead from the communication channel.
+
+
+5. Description of the option
+
+   The  option  is   enabled  through  the   standard  Telnet   Option
+   negotiation process. Afterwards, the SENDER of data (the side which
+   sends the IAC WILL BM) is  free to define and use mappings  between
+   single and multiple NOT characters. Except for the ability to offer
+   a blanket refusal,  the receiver of  data has no  control over  the
+   definition and use of mappings.
+
+   The sender (of the WILL BM) is prohibited from using or  redefining
+   a <macro byte> until  it has received an  <ACCEPT> or <REFUSE>,  in
+   reply to a <DEFINE>.
+
+   NOTE: The  Telnet command  character  IAC (decimal  255) may  be  a
+   member of an <expansion string> but is the ONLY character which may
+   NOT be  defined  as  a  <macro  byte>.  ALL  OTHER  Telnet  command
+   characters use IAC  as a  preface and therefore  occupy a  SEPARATE
+   portion of the data space than do regular data bytes.
+
+RFC #729 Telnet Byte Macro Option Page 4
+
+
+
+   With  the  exception  of  IAC,  data  transfered  as  part  of   BM
+   subcommands are NOT to be interpreted. They are to be taken only as
+   their  normal  character  values.   This  avoids  the  problem   of
+   distinguishing between a character which is to be taken as a <macro
+   byte>, and interpreted as its corresponding <expansion string>, and
+   that same character to be taken  as its usual Telnet NVT value.  In
+   all other  cases,  however, <macro  byte>s  are to  be  interpreted
+   immediately, as if  the <expansion string>  had actually been  sent
+   across  the  network.    Expanded  strings  are   not  subject   to
+   reinterpretation, so that recursive definitions cannot be made.
+
+   The <count>  in  the <DEFINE>  subcommand  allows the  receiver  to
+   allocate storage. IAC interpretation  is not over-ridden during  BM
+   subcommands so  that  IAC  SE will  continue  to  safely  terminate
+   malformed subcommands. To include  IAC as part  of a <DEFINE>,  the
+   string "IAC IAC" must be sent.
+
+   The BM option is notably inefficient with regard to problems during
+   <macro byte> definition and use of  <macro byte>s as real data.  It
+   is expected that relatively few  <macro byte>s will be defined  and
+   that they will represent relatively short strings. Since the Telnet
+   data space  between decimal  128 and  decimal 254  is not  normally
+   used, except  by  implementations  employing  the  original  Telnet
+   protocol, it is  recommended that <macro  byte>s normally be  drawn
+   from that pool.