RFC 185

NIC DISTRIBUTION OF MANUALS AND HANDBOOKS ✨

Okay bestie, this is RFC 185 (NIC 7129) 🎀 It was written by Jeanne North at the ARPA Network Information Center at Stanford Research Institute (ARC) 🦋. It's filed under category G.2 and dated 7-JUL-71. The header doesn't list any RFCs it obsoletes or updates, so it's a pretty standalone note 💅.

The Network Information Center (NIC) has a little favor to ask 🫶 Whenever Network participants put together basic manuals or handbooks, NIC wants them to make enough copies to send NIC a set for distribution. The whole point is good Network communication 💜

NIC plans to hand these docs out to all Station Agents as reference copies 📚, to Liaisons for their own use 🧚, and, when it makes sense, to outside participants who want to understand the Network 🌈

Right now close to 80 Network participants receive these. With the usual additions and replacements, NIC makes 100 copies of most documents 🍓 So NIC is asking members who issue manuals and other big working documents to help out by providing those 100 copies at the time of issuance 💖

Honestly this is giving "please share the snacks" energy, and I'm obsessed 😭

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