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- Network Working Group 4689
- RFC-3 April 1969
- Steve Crocker
- UCLA
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- DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS
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- The Network Working Group seems to consist of Steve Carr of Utah, Jeff
- Rulifson and Bill Duvall at SRI, and Steve Crocker and Gerard Deloche
- at UCLA. Membership is not closed.
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- The Network Working Group (NWG) is concerned with the HOST software, the
- strategies for using the network, and initial experiments with the network.
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- 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.
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- CONTENT
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- FORM
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- Every NWG note should bear the following information:
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- 1. "Network Working Group"
- "Request for Comments:" x
- where x is a serial number.
- Serial numbers are assigned by Bill Duvall at SRI
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- 2. Author and affiliation
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- 3. Date
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- 4. Title. The title need not be unique.
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- DISTRIBUTION
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- One copy only will be sent from the author's site to"
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- 1. Bob Kahn, BB&N
- 2. Larry Roberts, ARPA
- 3. Steve Carr, UCLA
- 4. Jeff Rulifson, UTAH
- 5. Ron Stoughton, UCSB
- 6. Steve Crocker, UCLA
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- Reproduction if desired may be handled locally.
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- OTHER NOTES
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- Two notes (1 & 2) have been written so far. These are both titled HOST
- Software and are by Steve Crocker and Bill Duvall, separately.
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- Other notes planned are on
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- 1. Network Timetable
- 2. The Philosophy of NIL
- 3. Specifications for NIL
- 4. Deeper Documentation of HOST Software.
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