RFC 188

Data Management Meeting Announcement ✨

Okay bestie, let's get into RFC 188 🎀 It's from the Network Working Group and it's titled Data Management Meeting Announcement. The authors are P. M. Karp from MITRE and D. B. McKay from IBM 💜 It's filed under Categories A.2 and dated 28 January 1971 📅 Nothing is listed as obsoleted or updated, so no drama there 🙈

The Announcement 📣

The first Network Data Management meeting is happening on Monday and Tuesday, August 2nd and 3rd in Room 801, 545 Technology Square 🧚 Richard Winter from Computer Corporation of America is hosting, and CCA has a block of rooms reserved at the Sonesta Hotel:

Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Mass., 02139

A map* is attached for reference 🗺️ The Sonesta is on Rt. 1, and Technology Square is on Main Street, about 1/2 mile off Rt. 1 🚗 A taxi from Logan Airport to the Sonesta or Tech. Square costs approximately $4.00 💸

The whole point is to swap ideas and build a working data management group 🫶 The ideas are a mix of paper discussions and informal chats about what people plan to do 💖

Several people on the agenda have said at one time or another that they're interested in discussing a topic 👑 The ones listed as tentative may or may not present, but hopefully they'll show up and share their ideas informally 🌈

Two of the papers* being presented are also supposed to be enclosed, but they aren't in this copy 😭 We also urge people to read RFCs, 144, 146, 171, 172, 173 and 195 📚

See you at the meeting on August 2nd 💅✨

*  not enclosed with this copy

The Agenda 🗓️

Here's the whole lineup, exactly as it was laid out 🍓

RFC 188           Data Management Meeting Announcement      January 1971


                       Data Management Meeting

Monday, August 2     9:00 a.m.
   Introduction
      D. McKay, IBM Corporation

   Philosophy
      Three Approaches to Data Sharing on Computer Networks
            A. Shoshani, System Development Corporation

      Unified Data Management System (Described briefly in RFC #144)
            B. Wessler, University of Utah

      Data Management Overview
            P. Karp, Mitre Corporation

Monday, August 2     1:30 p.m.
   Language Considerations
      DDL
            A. Mullery, IBM Corporation

      Discussion of Codasyl Report
            L. Haibt, IBM Corporation

      DDL and Access Language (RFC #195)
            *G. Mealy, Harvard University

      Data Disposition
            *T. O'Sullivan, Raytheon Data Systems

Monday Evening - Informal discussion of the ideas presented during
the day.

Tuesday, August 3      9:00 a.m.
      The Data Computer
            R. Winter, Computer Corporation of America

      Plans and Usage of the Data Computer
            R. Liuzzi, Rand Corporation

      Experimentation
            *P. Karp, Mitre Corporation

Tuesday, August 3     1:30 p.m.
   Planning Session

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   *  Tentative Speakers