RFC27

Network Working Group S. Crocker Request for Comments: 27 UCLA

                                                       9 December 69

                    DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

This note is a revision of NWG/RFC 10, 16, and 24.

The Network Working Group consists of interested people from existing or potential ARPA network sites. Membership is not closed.

The Network Working Group (NWG) is concerned with the HOST software, the strategies for using the network, and initial experience with the network.

Documentation of the NWG's effort is through notes such as this. Notes may be produced at any site by anybody and included in this series.

CONTENT

The content of a NWG note may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related to the HOST software or other aspect of the network. Notes are encouraged to be timely rather than polished. Philosophical positions without examples or other specifics, specific suggestions or implementation techniques without introductory or background explication, and explicit questions without any attempted answers are all acceptable. The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence.

These standards (or lack of them) are stated explicitly for two reasons. First, there is a tendency to view a written statement as ipso facto authoritative, and we hope to promote the exchange and discussion of considerably less than authoritative ideas. Second, there is a natural hesitancy to publish something unpolished, and we hope to ease this inhibition.

FORM

Every NWG note should bear the following information:

    1.  "Network Working Group"
        "Request for Comments: X" (X underscored)
          where X is a serial number.  Serial numbers are assigned
          by Steve Crocker at UCLA.

    2.  Author and affiliation

    3.  Date

    4.  Title
        The title need not be unique.

DISTRIBUTION

One copy only will be sent from the author's site to:

    1.  Abhai Bhushan, MIT
    2.  Steve Carr, Utah
    3.  Gerry Cole, SDS
    4.  Steve Crocker, UCLA
    5.  Bill English, SRI
    6.  Kim Fry, MITRE
    7.  John Haefner, RAND
    8.  Bob Kahn, BB&N
    9.  Thomas O'Sullivan, Raytheon
   10.  Larry Roberts, ARPA
   11.  Paul Rovner, LL
   12.  Ron Stoughton, UCSB

Reproduction, if desired, may be handled locally.

ADDRESSES

Below are the most current addressed I have. Please correct as necessary:

    Abhai Bhushan                   MIT
    Room 807 - Project MAC          (617) 864-6900 X5857
    545 Technology Square
    Cambridge, Mass. 02139

    Steve Carr                      Utah
    Computer Science Dept.          (801) 322-8224
    University of Utah
    Salt Lake City, Utah  84112

    Gerry Cole                      SDC
    7842 Croyden                    2500 Colorado
    Los Angeles, Calif. 90024       Santa Monica, Calif 90406
                                    (213) 393-9411, X6l35
                                                    X6019 (Sec'y)

    Steve Crocker                   UCLA
    3732 Boelter Hall               (213) 825-4864
    UCLA                                  825-2543 (Sec'y)
    Los Angeles, Calif. 90024

    Bill English                    SRI
    Stanford Research Institute     (415) 326-6200
    333 Ravenswood                  
    Menlo Park, Calif. 94025

    Kim Fry                         MITRE
    The MITRE Corp                  (703) 893-3500, X355
    Westgate Research Park                          X318
    McLean, Va. 22101

    John Heafner                    RAND
    The Rand Corporation            (213) 393-0411
    1700 Main Street
    Santa Monica, Calif. 90406

    Robert Kahn                     BB&N
    Bolt, Beranek and Newman        (617) 491-1850
    50 Moulton St.
    Cambridge, Mass. 02138

    Thomas O'Sullivan               Raytheon
    Raytheon Company                (617) 899-8400
    Equipment Division Headquarters
    40 Second Ave.
    Waltham, Mass. 02l54

    Larry Roberts                   ARPA
    ODS/ARPA                        (202) OX7-8663
    3D167                                 OX7-8654
    Washington, D.C.  2030l

    Paul D. Rovner                  LL
    Mass. Inst. of Tech.            (617) 562-5500 X7211
    Lincoln Laboratory B-115                      
    P.O. Box 73
    Lexington, Mass 02173

    Ron Stoughton                   UCSB
    Computer Research Lab           (805) 961-3221
    UCSB
    Santa Barbara, Calif. 93106