RFC 24

Network Working Group 💖

Okay bestie, meet RFC 24: DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS 🎀 It's the house rules for how these notes get written, and it's giving very early-internet energy. ✨

• Series: Network Working Group
• Number: RFC 24
• Author: S. Crocker, UCLA
• Date: 21 November 69
• Title: DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS
• Revises: This note is a revision of NWG/RFC 10 and 16. 🌸

The original doesn't list a category or status, so I'm not making one up. 🙈

The Network Working Group is made up of interested people from existing or potential ARPA network sites, and membership is not closed. 🫶 The NWG cares about the HOST software, the strategies for using the network, and initial experience with the network. 💅

The NWG documents its work through notes like this one. Any site can produce a note, and it gets included in this series. 🦋

CONTENT 🌈

A NWG note can be any thought, suggestion, or whatever else relates to the HOST software or some other part of the network. 💜 Notes are encouraged to be timely rather than polished, so no pressure to be perfect! 😭 Philosophical positions without examples, specific suggestions or implementation techniques without background explanation, and explicit questions without any attempted answers are all acceptable. ✨ The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence. 🍓

Why are these standards (or the lack of them) stated so openly? Two reasons, bestie. 👑 First, people tend to treat anything written down as ipso facto authoritative, and the goal is to encourage swapping and discussing ideas that are way less than authoritative. 🧚 Second, there's a natural hesitancy to publish something unpolished, and this is here to ease that worry. 🫶

FORM 🎀

Every NWG note should carry the following information: 💅

1. "Network Working Group" "Request for Comnments: X" (X underscored), where X is a serial number. Serial numbers are assigned by Steve Crocker at UCLA. 🔥
2. Author and affiliation 💖
3. Date 🌸
4. Title. The title doesn't have to be unique, so you're good! 🦋

DISTRIBUTION 💌

One copy only gets sent from the author's site to: 🧚

1. Abhai Bhushan, MIT
2. Steve Carr, Utah
3. Jerry Cole, SDC
4. Steve Crocker, UCLA
5. Bill English SRI
6. Kim Fry, MITRE
7. John Haefner, RAND
8. Bob Kahn, BB&N
9. Larry Roberts, ARPA
10. Paul Rovner, LL
11. Ron Stoughton, ECSB

Reproduction, if desired, can be handled locally. 💜

ADDRESSES 📬

Here are the most current addresses the author has. Please correct them as needed! 🌷

Abhai Bhushan                           MIT
Room 807 - Project MAC                  (617) 864-6790 X5857
545 Technology Square
Cambridge, Mass. 02139

Steve Carr                              Utah
Computer Science Dept.                  (801) 322-8224
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

Jerry Cole                              SDC
7842 Croyden                            2500 Colorado
Los Angeles, Calif. 90045               (213) 393-9411, X6135
                                                        X67019
                                                         (Sec'y)

Steve Crocker                           UCLA
3732 Boelter Hall                       (213) 825-4864
UCLA                                          825-2543 (Sec'y)
Los Angeles, Calif. 90024

Bill English                            SRI
Stanford Research Institute             (415) 326-6200
333 Ravenswood
Menlo Park, Calif. 94025

Kim Fry                                 MITRE
The MITRE Corp.                         (703) 893-3500, X355
Westgate Research Park                                  X318
McLean, Va. 22101

John Haefner                            RAND
The Rand Corporation                    (213) 393-0411
1700 Main Street
Santa Monica, Calif. 90406

Robert Kahn                             BBN
Bolt, Beranek and Newman                (617) 491-1850
50 Moulton St.
Cambridge, Mass. 02138

Larry Roberts                           ARPA
ODS/ARPA                                (202) OX7-8663
3D167 Pentagon                                OX7-8654
Washington, D.C.  20301

Paul D. Rovner                          LL
Mass. Inst. of Tech.                    (617) 562-5500 X7211
Lincoln Laboratory B-115
P.O. Box 73
Lexington, Mass. 02173

Ron Stoughton                           UCSB
Computer Research Lab                   (805) 961-3221
UCSB
Santa Barbara, Calif. 94025

That's the whole RFC, bestie! 🌈👑