RFC 116

STRUCTURE OF THE MAY NWG MTG. ✨

okay bestie, this is RFC 116, and the vibes are immaculate 🦋. It's a Request for Comments from S. Crocker at UCLA (NIC #5825), dated 12 April 71. It's filed under category A.2, it obsoletes nothing, and it updates RFC 99 🌸.

Okay so Crocker wants to use the time in Atlantic City more effectively 💅. The plan is to organize the meetings around advertised topics, with published status reports and position papers. The time gets split into three phases 🎀.

Phase one is all about status reports from each site, plus intros for new sites or agencies 🧚. Every existing site should plan to report on its state of software and hardware development, and on its use of the network. New sites introduce themselves and present their plans for attaching to and using the network. The work on the ILLIAC IV, the List machine, and the terminal IMP will also be reviewed 🔥. Crocker will assume each site needs 5-10 minutes unless he's told otherwise. A short written status report is also expected ✨.

Phase two is for discussing current network-wide topics, like the NIC, the Form Machine Telnet, and the Logger Protocol 💜. Suggestions for these topics should go to Crocker. Committees should prepare their reports and talk through their work. Viewpoints that no existing committee represents should be laid out in position papers 🌈.

Phase three is for brand new topics 🍓. Some of the ones Crocker has in mind: what the long range goals of the NWG should be, what operational goals the NWG should set for the next six months, and whether the NWG should have more or less structure 👑. New topic suggestions are especially encouraged, and the best way to open one up is with an introductory position paper 🫶.

The written material available before the meeting is a huge factor in how effective this will be 🙈. As far as possible, reports and position papers should be published in RFC form by 1 May 71 💖.

The agenda gets built from suggestions sent to Crocker, so call him at (213) 825-2368 📞. He'll publish an agenda and schedule of meetings around 1 May 🦋.

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Josh Elliott 1/98 ] 🌈