RFC 182

RFC 182: Compilation of List of Relevant Site Reports 💖

okay bestie, RFC 182 🎀 was written by Jeanne North (NIC 7126) at the ARPA Network Information Center, with Stanford Research Institute (ARC) 🦋 as her home base. It's a Category I.2 doc, dated 25-JUN-71 ✨. Nothing in it obsoletes or updates anything, since none are listed 🌸.

The Network Information Center is working on a list of every Site-produced report that Network participants would care about 📚. That includes reports made under ARPA IPT contracts, plus other relevant stuff from the Sites about information processing, network planning, the hardware and software for the projects, and some general reports on what individual Sites are working on 🧚. The plan is to identify them, list them, and get copies for the NIC collection 💅.

NIC first asked the first Station Agents to send over any bibliographies of their Site's reports 🍓. Then other stuff got in the way, so the planned bibliography of network reports still isn't out yet 😭. In the meantime, a bunch of Agents sent in lists of their Site's reports, and Peggy Karp's bibliography covers a lot of the ground ⭐. Demand is also growing for a compilation of references and for an accessible collection of the actual reports, and that's a big deal 🔥. NIC is responsible for meeting that demand from Sites for other relevant reports 👑. It also lets Sites send requests for their own reports to NIC for centralized handling, and gives Sites and everyone else the bibliographic tools to find any Network report 🫶.

Requests about reports done under an ARPA IPT Contract can come from inside or outside the Network, and they can be forwarded or referred to NIC for an answer 🌈. NIC won't try to send copies to outsiders, though 🙈. Instead it'll answer with ordering info from the government when that info is known, or pass the request along to the report's originator when needed 💜.

NIC would love to get any other existing bibliographies of relevant Site-produced reports 🦋. It would also be so grateful to be added to distribution lists for new relevant Site-produced reports ✨.

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