RFC 391

📡 RFC 391: TRAFFIC STATISTICS (August 1972) 💖

The title block, bestie: this one is from the Network Working Group 🎀 and it was written by A. McKenzie 💅. It's dated 15 September 1972 🌸, and it updates RFC 378 (that's the only thing it touches, and it doesn't obsolete anything) ✨. The NIC number is 11583 🦋. No category is listed on this one, so it's just a vibe-check memo about traffic numbers 📊.

ABSTRACT ✨

Okay so the whole point here is simple: the network traffic statistics for August 1972 are attached 🧚. That's it, that's the abstract, no notes 😭.

Here's the sign-off from McKenzie 💌, plus the little "Attach." reminder that the big table is coming 🎀:

AAM/jm

Attach.

📊 The Big Table (the attachment, obsessed)

Here's the full stats table, copied exactly as it was 🫶. Don't touch a single digit, the numbers are the whole personality 💅.

                INTER-    INTRA-            AVG. DAILY  DAYS
                 NODE      NODE      TOTAL   INTERNODE

USLA    HOST 1   163800    187696    351496
UCLA    HOST 2  1189956    308725   1498681
UCLA    HOST 3   483386      6107    489493
                -------    ------   -------
                1837142    502528   2339670     59263     31

SRI     HOST 1  1708465    120157   1828622
SRI     HOST 2    32837      7006     39843
SRI     HOST 4    83904         0     83904
                -------    ------   -------
                1825206    127163   1952369     58878     31

UCSB    HOST 1   368992    452967    821959     11903     31

UTAH    HOST 1   692757    107679    800436     22347     31

BBN     HOST 2  2909317    777743   3687060
BBN     HOST 3      590         0       590
BBN     HOST 4   168313       587    168900
                -------    ------   -------
                3078220    778330   3856550     99297     31

MIT     HOST 1   129409     44873    174282
MIT     HOST 2   372686    703650   1076336
MIT     HOST 3   529621   1432866   1962487
MIT     HOST 4     9224    622039    714286
                -------    ------   -------
                 112396   2803428   3927391     36257     31

RAND    HOST 1   249521     57302    306823
RAND    HOST 2  1977168     81451   2058619
                -------    ------   -------
                2226689    138753   2365442     71829     31

SDC     HOST 1     2330      1384      3714        75     31

HARV    HOST 1   334219     91043    425262
HARV    HOST 2     2917     71129     74046
                 ------    ------    ------
                 337136    162172    499308     10875     31

LINC    HOST 1    10972      1451     12423
LINC    HOST 2   135328    325462    460790
LINC    HOST 3       16       896       912
                 ------   -------    ------
                 146316    327809    474125      4720     31

STAN    HOST 1   405796     41438    447234     13090     31

ILL     HOST 1   466698       583    467281     15055     31

CASE    HOST 1      842      1118      1960        27     31

CARN    HOST 1   194751    225985    420736
CARN    HOST 2        1       112       113
                 ------    ------    ------
                 194752    226097    420849      6282     31

AMES2   HOST1    846623    409571   1256194     27310     31

AMES1   HOST 1   117040     42766    159806
AMES1   HOST 3  2934129     36211   2970340
                -------     -----  -------
                3051169     78977   3130146     98425     31

MITRE   HOST 3  1066597      2674   1069271     34406     31

ROME    HOST 3   553392       589    553981     17851     31
NBS     HOST 1     8183       250      8433
NBS     HOST 3   645719       186    645905
                 ------      ----   -------
                 653902       436    654338     21094     31

ETAC    HOST 3   298495        38    298533      9629     31

TINK HAD NO TRAFFIC                                       31

MC CL HAD NO TRAFFIC                                      31

USC     HOST 3   835516     20973    856489     26952     31

GWC     HOST 3   146321        58    146379      4720     31

NOAA    HOST 3    75601        49     75650      2439     31

SAAC    HOST 3    60755      2293     63048      1960     31

BELV HAD NO TRAFFIC                                       31

ARPA    HOST 1        0    229859    229859
ARPA    HOST 3   143722    221448    365170
                 -------   ------   -------
                 143722    451307    595029      4636     31

BBN T   HOST 3   718636   2288135   3006771     23182     31
----------------------------------

TOTAL          21157570    8926549

DAILY AVERAGE    682502     287953

AVERAGE PER       23535       9929
NODE-DAY
PACKETS/MESSAGES (INTERNODE) 1.09

The end of the stats is giving closure 🌈 Here's the machine-readable note from the archive, which I'm keeping exactly as it is 🙈:

        [This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry]
    [into the online RFC archives by Helene Morin, Via Genie 12/99]

Honestly the whole thing is lowkey iconic 🫶 A one-sentence abstract and a giant table of traffic numbers from 1972. Main character energy, no cap 👑🔥