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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1269)3/25/1998 4:42:00 PM
From: John Mansfield  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
TECHNICAL - The Internet and the Millenium Problem (Year 2000)

'Abstract

The Year 2000 Working Group(WG) has conducted an investigation into
the millenium problem as it regards Internet related protocols.
This investigation only targeted the protocols as documented in the
Request For Comments Series (RFCs). This investigation discovered
little reason for concern with regards to the functionality of the
protocols. A few minor cases of older implementations still using
two digit years (ala RFC 850) were discovered, but almost all
Internet protocols were given a clean bill of health. Several cases
of ''period'' problems were discussed where a time field would ''roll
over'' as the size of field was reached. In particular, there are
several protocols, which have 32 bit, signed integer representations
of the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 which will turn
negative at Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 GMT 2038. Areas whose protocols
will be effected by such problems have been notified so that new
revisions will remove this limitation.'

...

HTTP:

'Unfortunately, many existing servers, serving on the order of one
fifth of the current HTTP traffic, send dates in the ambiguous
RFC850 format.

...

MAIL:

'Although there might be a few very old
SMTP systems using two-digit years, it is believed that almost all
mail sent over the Internet today uses four-digit years.
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