RFC 27

DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS 🎀

Okay bestie, the title block is giving classic. ✨ It's Request for Comments: 27 from the Network Working Group 💖, written by S. Crocker at UCLA, dated 9 December 69 🦋. There's no category listed and nothing about obsoleting or updating anything. The only thing it says is that this note is a revision of NWG/RFC 10, 16, and 24 🌸.

This note is a revision of NWG/RFC 10, 16, and 24.

The Network Working Group is basically an open club 🫶. It's made up of interested people from existing or potential ARPA network sites, and membership is not closed, so come join 🌈.

The NWG cares about the HOST software, the strategies for using the network, and early experience with the network 💅. Its work gets documented through notes like this one. Anybody at any site can write a note and it can be added to the series 🧚.

CONTENT ✨

The content of an NWG note can be any thought, suggestion, or whatever else relates to the HOST software or another part of the network 💜. Notes are encouraged to be timely over polished, so no pressure to make it perfect 😭. Philosophical positions with no examples, specific suggestions or implementation techniques with no background, and explicit questions with no answers attempted are all totally acceptable 🙈. The shortest possible NWG note is one sentence. ⭐

Why are these standards (or lack of them) spelled out so clearly? Two reasons 👑. First, people tend to treat anything written down as automatically authoritative, and the goal here is to encourage swapping and discussing ideas that are way less than authoritative 🍓. Second, there's a natural hesitation to publish something unpolished, and this is meant to ease that worry 🫶.

FORM 🎀

Every NWG note should include the following information:

1. "Network Working Group" and "Request for Comments: 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 does not have to be unique 💅.

DISTRIBUTION 💌

One copy only will be sent from the author's site to each of these people:

1. Abhai Bhushan, MIT
2. Steve Carr, Utah
3. Gerry Cole, SDS
4. Steve Crocker, UCLA
5. Bill English, SRI
6. Kim Fry, MITRE
7. John Haefner, RAND
8. Bob Kahn, BB&N
9. Thomas O'Sullivan, Raytheon
10. Larry Roberts, ARPA
11. Paul Rovner, LL
12. Ron Stoughton, UCSB

Reproduction, if anyone wants it, can be handled locally 🦋.

ADDRESSES 📮

Here are the most current addresses the author has. Please correct anything that's off 🥺✨:

        Abhai Bhushan                   MIT
        Room 807 - Project MAC          (617) 864-6900 X5857
        545 Technology Square
        Cambridge, Mass. 02139

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

        Gerry Cole                      SDC
        7842 Croyden                    2500 Colorado
        Los Angeles, Calif. 90024       Santa Monica, Calif 90406
                                        (213) 393-9411, X6l35
                                                        X6019 (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 Heafner                    RAND
        The Rand Corporation            (213) 393-0411
        1700 Main Street
        Santa Monica, Calif. 90406

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

        Thomas O'Sullivan               Raytheon
        Raytheon Company                (617) 899-8400
        Equipment Division Headquarters
        40 Second Ave.
        Waltham, Mass. 02l54

        Larry Roberts                   ARPA
        ODS/ARPA                        (202) OX7-8663
        3D167                                 OX7-8654
        Washington, D.C.  2030l

        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. 93106