RFC 620

Request for Monitor Host Table Updates ✨

okay bestie, the title block first 🎀 This one's by Bill Ferguson from SRI-ARC, filed as Request for Comments: 620 with NIC # 21993 and dated Mar 1974 📅. The header doesn't name a category or status, and it doesn't list anything this one obsoletes or updates, so there's nothing else to track there 💅.

The Big Glow-Up 🌸

Okay so the ARC/NIC group has been running OFFICE-1 successfully for several weeks now 🦋. The NIC users got moved over to that site, and they're getting all their computation from TYMSHARE 💻. Because of that, everyone is updating their monitor HOST tables, effective Friday, March 8, 1974 🗓️. It's giving major reorganization energy, and I'm obsessed 😭.

The Net Change 🔥

Here's the whole plot twist, in order:

1. Site 53 (octal) is OFFICE-1
2. Site 2 is SRI-ARC
3. The nickname for site 2 is ARC (not NIC)
4. The nickname for site 53 is NIC

Also, bestie, now that NIC services live on OFFICE-1, that's the one people should reach over the network as "NIC", not SRI-ARC 🧚. Main character moment fr fr 👑.

How To Actually Do It 💖

Every TENEX site's monitor host table should get updated like this. The actual host name section should contain these entries (they might already be there, which is totally fine 🙈):

CC.(2,SR1-ARC,USER!SERVER!TENEX)
CC.(253,TYMSHARE-TIP,USER!TIP)
CC.(53,OFFICE-1,USER!SERVER!TENEX)

Then the NICKNAME table should also have these entries. The NIC entry needs to be changed so it points at site 53 (octal), and a brand new ARC entry gets added. Specifically:

CC.(2,ARC,NICKNAME!SERVER!USER!TENEX)

CC.(53,NIC,NICKNAME!SERVER!USER!TENEX)

Sites that aren't running TENEX should make these same changes in a way that matches their own operating system 🫶.

Timing and Thank-Yous 🎀

Remember, all of this goes live on March 8 🗓️. On that date, the group will tell all their users to use the nickname NiC when referring to OFFICE-1 🍓. Thank you so much for your co-operation, besties 🌈💜.