RFC 291

RFC 291: Data Management Meeting Announcement 💖

Title: Data Management Meeting Announcement 🎀 Network Working Group 🌸 (it's the RFC 291 archive, so yep, 1972 vibes) Author: D. B. McKay, IBM, phone (Area Code 914) 945-1159, at NIC 8301 🧚 Date: 14 January 1972 📅 Categories: A.2, D.4, D.7 ✨ Obsoletes/Updates: the original doesn't list anything it obsoletes or updates, so there's nothing to flag here 🦋

Okay so, bestie, Mitre is hosting a Network Data Management Meeting on February 23, 24. 🎀 This is a follow-up to past meetings, and it has two main goals. ✨

At the first data management meeting, back in August, everyone basically agreed they needed to learn about how people actually use network data facilities, and how networks can help users hit their goals. 💅 A bunch of people said they're interested in talking about applications, so there's a schedule of folks who already agreed to speak. 🎤 If you know anyone else who'd love to share their applications, send them my way. 🫶

Goal number two is the big one 👑: the meeting will talk through and hopefully land on a spec for a network data management protocol. The group decided the best way to get a design was to start from a tentative written proposal, or a few of them. 📝 I'll try to get copies out to attendees before the meeting. I'm also really hoping anyone else who's into it will write up a 3rd level protocol for sharing network data and bring it. 💜

The protocol design would ideally hit the goals of a data facility described in stage 2 of RFC-146. 🦋

Here's the tea 🍓: space is limited, and the second half of the meeting is a working session, so attendance has to be capped. First priority goes to people or reps from groups that came to the past two meetings. 🌈 Anyone else who reaches out will hear from me if spots open up. 🙈

To reserve a spot, contact Mrs. Madeline Cornell at Mitre, Telephone (Area Code 703) 893-3500 Extension 2395, as soon as you can. ⭐

Love you all 🫶

D. B. McKay

DBM:eb

Speakers for February 23, 1972 🎤

Captain Roger Moore, U.S. Army R&D Command 🫡 Sharing and accessing medical files at all specialized locations. 🩺

Dr. John Senior, National Medical Board of Examiners 👩‍⚕️ Dr. Senior is going to talk about why they need to access all test results at the various medical testing centers across the country. 📊

Thomas McCauley*, Hughes Aircraft ✈️ Mr. McCauley will walk through applications they're familiar with from their work at Hughes. 🔥

Dick Watson, SRI-NIC 🧠 Mr. Watson will cover the advantages and feasibility of distributing parts of NIC through the network. 🌐

Undecided as yet, MITRE 🤷‍♀️ A discussion of MITRE's work designing a system for IRS. 💅

*Tentative. 🙈

The original RFC was put into machine readable form for entry into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the direction of Alex McKenzie, 12/96. 🧚 Iconic archivist energy.