RFC 511

RFC 511: Enterprise Phone Service to NIC From ARPANET Sites 📞✨

okay bestie, this one is from 1973!! 🦋 It was written by Jeanne North of the SRI NIC (ARPA Network Information Center, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California 94025), dated 23 May 1973. It's RFC 511 (also known as NIC 16442), and it updates NIC 7554 and NIC 7732. It doesn't list a category, so I'm just saying that as-is 💅

The Phone Tea ☎️💖

Okay so, in September 1971, NIC set things up so that every Site on the Network at that time could call NIC by phone, with all the tolls billed to NIC 🙈 (that's (7554,) in the original). Then in October, (7732,) a revised list of numbers for Sites came out. Since then, some Sites asked for the service, so more arrangements got made. The current list of Enterprise and Zenith numbers is attached below, and you can also look it up online through <NIC>LOCATOR 🌸

Why Not Just an 800 Number? 🤔

NIC thought about switching everything to one 800 number, but it would be way more expensive 💀 Enterprise numbers (Zenith in California) are billing arrangements that have to be set up separately for each prefix, not just each area code. So even users in the same area usually need their own special arrangement. Is it more annoying than an 800 number? Honestly, yes, admittedly 😭 But right now it costs about $800 per month, and an 800 number would cost about $2200 per month. Big difference, bestie!! 💅

We Want Your Opinions 🫶

NIC would love to hear from users about how happy they are with the current setup. 🌈 And if you're a Site that's actually on the Network, you don't have an Enterprise number, and you want one? Just call NIC and ask for one ✨

The Answering Service 🌙

NIC also set up an answering service on the Enterprise or Zenith numbers for calls received from 5pm to 8am. We're sorry to anyone who ran into problems with it lately 🙈 It's been put back in place, and we're assuming it'll be helpful for getting the status of NIC operations at times other than 8 to 5, when our full staff is around. Tell us what you think, because we really want to know 🦋

The Site List 📋🎀

Here's the list of Sites, Idents, and phone numbers. Read it carefully, it's the whole point!! 💖

Ident                   Site                    Phone

ABERDEEN      Aberdeen R & D Center          Enterprise 0740

AMES-67       NASA Ames Research Center      dial (415) 329-0740
    -TIP

ARPA-TIP      Adv Research Projects Agency   Enterprise 1-0740
    -NCC
    -NET

BBN-NCC       BBN--Network Group             Enterprise 0740

TENEX A       BBN--TENEX Group               Enterprise 0740
TENEX B
TESTIP

CASE-10       Case Western Reserve           Enterprise 0740

CCA           Computer Corp. of America      Enterprise 0740

CMU-CC        Carnegie-Mellon Univ.          Enterprise 9074
   -10

DOCB          Dept. of Commerce, Boulder     Enterprise 0740

ETAC-TIP      Washington, D.C.               Enterprise 1-0740

HARV-1        Harvard University             Enterprise 0740
    -10
    -11

ILL-ANTS      University of Illinois         Enterprise 1-0740
   -CAC

ILLIAC        NASA Ames--ILLIAC Group        dial (415) 329-0740

LL-67         Lincoln Lab                    Enterprise 0740
  -TX2
  -TSP

MIT-DMCG      MIT                            Enterprise 0740
   -AI

MIT-ML        MIT                            Enterprise 0740

MIT-MULTICS   MIT                            Enterprise 0740

MITRE-TIP     MITRE Corporation              Enterprise 1-0740

NBS-TIP       Nat'l Bureau of Standards      Enterprise 1-0740

PATRICK-TIP   Patrick AFB                    Enterprise 0740

RADC-TIP      Rome Air Dev. Center           Enterprise 0740

RAND-RCC      Rand Corporation               Zenith 9-0740

SDC-ADEPT     System Development Corp.       Zenith 9-0740

SRI-AI        SRI  AI Group                  dial (415) 329-0740

SU-AI         Stanford University            dial (415) 329-0740

UCLA-CCN      UCLA Campus Comp. Netw.        Zenith 9-0740
    -CCBS

NMC           UCLA Net Meas. Center          Zenith 9-0740

UNIVAC        UNIVAC St.Paul-Minneapolis     Enterprise 0740

UCSB-MOD75    UC at Santa Barbara            Zenith 9-0740

UCSD-CC       UC at San Diego                Zenith 9-0740

USAF          USAF at Pentagon               Enterprise 1-0740

USC-ISI       USC  Info Sciences Inst.       Zenith 9-0740

USC-TIP       U. of Southern California      Zenith 9-0740

UTAH-10       University of Utah             Zenith 9-0740

Machine-Readable Note 🤖💜

       [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
       [ into the online RFC archives by Tony Hansen     11/98 ]
       [ The nroff source file of this document was created by ]
       [  Alex McKenzie with support from GTE, formerly BBN    ]
       [  Corp.                                          10/99 ]

That's the whole tea, bestie!! 🌈✨💅