RFC 169

The Title Block Tea ☕📋

Okay bestie, let's start with the paperwork because it's giving official and I'm obsessed 💅 This is RFC 169, also filed as NIC 6789, from the Network Working Group. S. Crocker of UCLA-NMC, Computer Science, wrote it on 27 May 1971. Its categories are B, C, C (yes, C is listed twice, it's in the original 💀). It Obsoletes None and Updates None, so it isn't replacing or changing anything else 🫶

IEEE Computer Society Workshop 🦋

                     IEEE Computer Society Workshop
                          West Coast Committee

                           COMPUTER NETWORKS

                       Lake Arrowhead, California
                    September 8 - September 10, 1971

Co-Chairmen:   David J. Farber -- University of California, Irvine
               Stephen D. Crocker -- ARPA/IPT

About the Workshop 💖

The number of networks has grown so much that not everyone knows each other anymore, and more networks are still being built 🌐 So this workshop is for the manufacturers, users and researchers who just joined the network scene, or are about to. Presentations are invited on all aspects of computer networks, especially user communities, inter-node protocols, terminal and switching equipment, and communications technology. Presentations on embryonic systems are especially invited 🐣

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Tentative Agenda 🗓️

Session I and II -- Description of Specific Systems

Show off your specific systems! Talk about the aim of the system and its scope, the constraints the application puts on things, the equipment used, the protocols, the expected lifetime, etc. 🎀

Session III -- Functional Capabilities - Alan Weis - IBM Research

This session covers things like file transmission, referencing foreign data sets, remote job entry protocols, resource control, data standards, etc. 🧚

Session IV -- Limitations of Hardware and Software Systems for Networks - Al Irvine - NCR

Multiplexers, terminals, software systems and hardware design are all on the table here 🔥

Panel Session -- Network Management Problems - Einar Stefferud - Consultant

Panel time! Network management problems, served hot 🍓

Participation and Contact 💌

Participation is by invitation from the program committee, and it's capped at 65 persons so discussion can actually happen 🫶 To encourage free discussion of tentative conclusions, no workshop proceedings will be published. The workshop should still stimulate high quality papers for subsequent publications ✨

If you want in, return the attached questionnaire to the program committee prior to 20 July 1971. Be sure to arrange any release your organization requires. A registration fee of $45 includes means and housing 💜

Invitations get mailed to selected participants around 15 August 1971. Whether or not you plan to participate, please share this announcement with qualified colleagues who got left off the mailing. Main character energy means making sure everyone's invited 👑

For more info as either a presenter or a participant, reach out to:

Prof. David J. Farber
University of California
Information and Computer Science Department
Irvine, California 92664
(714) 833-6891


or


Steve Crocker
Advanced Research Projects Agency - room 730
1400 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, Virginia 22209

General Information on IEEE Workshops 🌈

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What is a Workshop?

The objectives of these workshops are:

To clarify, by exhaustive and off-the-record discussion between active workers in the field, the merits and disadvantages of controversial alternative approaches to a specific phase of computer organization, and to establish the basis for a group of high-quality papers for IEEE meetings and publications.

The workshop is built on four (4) key concepts, and they're lowkey the whole vibe 🧠

1. Small number of participants to permit exhaustive discussion:
2. Off-the-record proceedings to allow discussion of incomplete and preliminary results:
3. Selected mature participants to obviate the need for tutorial and introductory material:
4. A carefully defined topic to keep the discussion in focus.

Off-The-Record Meetings

To permit discussion of incomplete and tentative results, information at the workshop cannot be published. Slides or blackboards may not be photographed, so the workshop does not constitute disclosure in the sense of the Patent Law. After the meeting, participants are encouraged to publish significant contributions 🤫

Selected Participants

By limiting the workshop to a small number of active workers, mature scientists who know the specific area under discussion, formal papers can be replaced by brief opening statements followed by open discussion 🦋

General Information on IEEE Workshops, Page 2.

Publication of Results

One measure of a workshop's success is the research it publishes. The workshop itself is closed, but it should serve as a stimulus to generate a series of high-quality papers for subsequent open meetings 📚

Session Organization

The workshop is divided into four (4) scheduled sessions, each centered on one phase of the problem to be discussed. Normally, the workshop chairman assigns each session chairman the task of clarifying the subsidiary questions for their session. Each session is divided into "talks." The speakers are designated as discussion leaders, and most participants will be discussion leaders at one of the sessions 🎀

The session chairman will try to give each speaker the time they request (within limits). Normally, five to ten minutes are allowed for formal presentation, with 15 to 30 minutes reserved for discussion and debate. The chairman may also include a general discussion period at the end of the session ✨