RFC 223

RFC 223: NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER SCHEDULE FOR NETWORK USERS 🎀

okay so this one is from 14 September 1971 🦋, written by John Melvin and Dick Watson from SRI-ARC, filed as NIC 7622. It's in category G.2 and it updates none of the other RFCs 💅. The whole point is the Network Information Center's hours for network users, which start on Monday, October 4, 1971 ✨.

NETWORK INFORMATION CENTER SCHEDULE FOR NETWORK USERS 🕰️

bestie, the NIC planned to be open for network users on a regular basis, Monday through Friday 💖.

Service starts Monday, October 4, 1971 🌸.

Here's the daily schedule. All times are Pacific Daylight / Pacific Standard Time ⏰:

0500 to 1200      system available
                  except Tuesday, when hours are 0800 to 1200

1200 to 1300      system not available

1300 to 1800      system available

1800 to 2200      system available on an irregular basis

2200 to 0500      system not available

This schedule is temporary and can change 🦋.

The system is also available on an irregular basis on weekends 🌈.

The "irregular basis" slots are mostly for system development 🛠️. Any user might get asked to log off on short notice, so be ready 😭.

ADDITIONAL NOTES 🧚

okay this part is so important 🫶.

Once your Telnet connection to the NIC is up, the system herald gets printed, and right after that comes a short (possibly empty) message for network users ✨. This message holds anything especially interesting to network users 👑.

How to log in 💅:

• use your site ident as the user name
• the password is ARPA
• use an account number made of site ident-your last name

Here's an example. If we get this string:

log ucla-nmc arpa ucla-postel

you'll be logged in as John Postel from UCLA 🙈.

After you log in, the (possibly empty) system message that every login sees gets printed 🌈.

If you have trouble getting into the NIC, call us using the numbers below. If a number isn't listed as direct dial, you have to contact your operator and ask for the right Zenith or Enterprise number. If the operator doesn't know how Enterprise or Zenith numbers work, ask for the supervisor 🚨.

Who to call 📞:

• Dick Watson for administrative problems 💼
• John Melvin for NCP or Telnet problems 🔥
• Marily Auerbach or Dirk van Nouhuys for TNLS problems 💜

If NIC staff don't pick up, a local answering service takes the call 📱. Tell them the name of the person your question is for, plus your question or comment. They'll contact the answering service every morning and reply as soon as they can 🫶.

Here's the site list with the ident, the site name, and the phone number 🍓:

Ident        Site                         Phone

AMES-CD      NASA Ames                    dial direct, 329-0740
             CD Group

AMES-ILLIAC  NASA Ames                    dial direct, 329-0740
             ILLIAC Group

ARPA         Advanced Research            Enterprise 1-0740
             Projects Agency

BBN-NET      BBN                          Enterprise 0740
             Network Group

BBN-TENEX    BBN                          Enterprise 0740
             TENEX Group

CASE         Case Western Reserve         Enterprise 0740
             University

CMU          Carnegie-Mellon              Enterprise 9074
             University

HARV         Harvard University           Enterprise 0740

ILL          University of Illinois       Enterprise 1074

LINC-67      M.I.T. Lincoln Lab           Enterprise 0740
             67 Group

LINC-TX2     M.I.T. Lincoln Lab           Enterprise 0740
             TX-2 Group

MIT-DMCG     Project MAC                  Enterprise 0740
             DMCG Group

MIT-MULTICS  Project MAC                  Enterprise 0740
             Multics Group

MITRE        MITRE Corporation            Enterprise 1-0740

RADC         Rome                         Enterprise 0740
             Air Development Center

RAND         Rand Corporation             Zenith 9-0740

SDC          System Development           Zenith 9-0740
             Corporation

SU-AI        Stanford University          dial direct 329-0740
             AI Group

UCLA-CCN     UCLA                         Zenith 9-0740
             Campus Computing Network

UCLA-NMC     UCLA                         Zenith 9-0740
             Network Measurement Center

UCSB         Univ of California           Zenith 9-0740
             Santa Barbara

USC          University of                Zenith 9-0740
             Southern California

UTAH         University of Utah           Zenith 9-0740

This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry into the online RFC archives by Sander van Malssen, 7/97 💜.