RFC 408

NETBANK 💖

okay bestie, this is NWG/RFC 408 🎀 written by Buzz Owen (SAAC-TIP) and Jon Postel (UCLA-NMC), NIC #12390, dated 25 October 1972 🦋. it doesn't obsolete or update anything, and no category is listed. it's giving early-internet vibes ✨

The following idea for a protocol (or service) is offered as an aid to network use for new users 🌸 ngl it's such a cute concept:

• a single billing and account creation and validation system, so that a manager of a "goal oriented project" could:
  • authorize a set of user's ids to gain access to and utilize resources at the entire or a specified subset of the server hosts. 🔥
  • create a set of accounts which the users will expend, and which will be used as the breakdown for a single bill to be presented to the project manager. 💅

the vibe is that the project manager would be required to go through the initialization process of introducing himself, verifying the existence of funding, etc. only once 🫶 no repeating the whole intake form every time, iconic.

the idea would also encourage server hosts to implement systems for which usage might be projected to start at low levels and grow, by allowing funded hacking by project members in a controlled manner 🧚 so hosts can start small and scale up as people actually show up, and the members get to tinker without it being a total free-for-all 🌈

this would require an option at login for the prospective user to indicate the server should check the "netbank" facility at the system currently hosting it. 💀 so the login itself carries that flag, and the server checks netbank on whichever system is currently hosting it. main character energy 👑

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ] [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 1/97 ]