RFC 10

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okay bestie, this one is the OG 🦋 It's RFC-10 from the Network Working Group, written by S. Crocker at UCLA on 29 July 1969. It's called DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS, and it's a revision of NWG/RFC #3 ✨

The NWG crew at the time was Steve Carr at Utah, Elmer Shapiro and Bill English at SRI, Steve Crocker at UCLA, John Haefner at RAND, and Paul Rovner and Jim Curry at Lincoln Labs. Membership is not closed 🫶

CONTENT 💅

The NWG is all about the HOST software, how we use the network, and early experience with the network 🌈

Documentation of the NWG's work happens through notes like this one. Anybody at any site can make a note and add it to the series 🍓

A NWG note can be about any thought or suggestion related to the HOST software or any other part of the network. Notes are encouraged to be timely rather than polished ⏰ Philosophical positions with no examples, specific suggestions or implementation techniques with no background, and explicit questions with no answers attempted are all totally fine 🙈 The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence. Iconic 👑

These standards (or the lack of them) are stated out loud for two reasons 💜 First, people tend to treat anything written down as automatically authoritative, and we want to encourage talking about ideas that are way less than authoritative. Second, it's natural to hesitate before publishing something rough, and we want to help people get past that 🧚

FORM 🎀

Every NWG note should bear the following information:

1. "Network Working Group", then "Request for Comments:"x (with the x underlined), where x is a serial number (also underlined). Serial numbers are assigned by Steve Crocker at UCLA 🔢
2. Author and affiliation ✍️
3. Date 📅
4. Title. The title doesn't need to be unique 💅

DISTRIBUTION 🦋

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

1. Steve Crocker, UCLA
2. Ron Stoughton, UCSB
3. Elmer Shapiro, SRI
4. Steve Carr, Utah
5. John Haefner, RAND
6. Paul Rovner, LL
7. Bob Kahn, BB&N
8. Larry Roberts, ARPA
9. Jerry Cole, SDC

Reproduction, if you want it, can be handled locally 🌸

ADDRESSES 📮

These are the most current addresses the author has. Please correct as necessary 💖

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

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

    Elmer Shapiro                           SRI
    Stanford Research Institute             (415)326-6200
    333 Ravenswood
    Menlo Park, California  94025

    Steve Carr                              Utah
    Computer Science Dept.                  (801) 322-8224
    University of Utah
    Salt Lake City, Utah  84ll2

    John Haefner                            RAND
    The Rand Corp.                          (213) 393-0411
    1700 Main Street
    Santa Monica, California  90406

    Paul D. Rovner                          LL
    Mass. Inst. of Tech.                    (617) 662-5500
    Lincoln Laboratory B-115                X7211
    P.O. Box 73
    Lexington, Mass. 02173

    Robert Kahn                             BBN
    Bolt, Beranek and Newman                (617) 491-1850
    50 Moulton St.                                49l-1868
    Cambridge, Mass.  02138

    Larry Roberts                           ARPA
    ODS/ARPA                                (202) OX 7-8663
    3D167 Pentagon                                OX 7-8654
    Washington, D.C.  2030l


    Jerry Cole                              SDC
    7842 Croyden                            2500 Colorado
    L.A., California  90045                 Santa Monica, California 90406
                                                  (213) 393-9411
                                                        X438
                                                        X6019 Sec'y