History

The aboriginal blueprint for the File Transfer Protocol was accounting by Abhay Bhushan and appear as RFC 114 on 16 April 1971 and after replaced by RFC 765 (June 1980) and RFC 959 (October 1985), the accepted specification. Several proposed standards alter RFC 959, for archetype RFC 2228 (June 1997) proposes aegis extensions and RFC 2428 (September 1998) adds abutment for IPv6 and defines a new blazon of acquiescent mode.[4]