RFC 622

Scheduling IMP/TIP Down Time ✨

Okay bestie, this is RFC 622 🎀, written by Alex McKenzie of BBN-NET for the Network Working Group. It's NIC # 21995 and dated March 13, 1974 🌸. The title block doesn't say it obsoletes or updates anything, so there's no drama there 💅.

Sometimes an IMP or TIP has to be taken down outside its scheduled Preventive Maintenance window 🔧. Retrofit programs are one reason, and so is diagnosing and fixing intermittent problems offline 🙈. Up until now, the team scheduled these downs with the "primary site contact" at the affected site, because that person was seen as speaking for every host (and TIP user) on that IMP/TIP 🫶. That worked well, but the rise of Very Distant Hosts, plus complaints from Hosts both local and far away, made them rethink the process 👀.

So here's the update 💖. Primary site contacts still get the scheduling calls, and they still count as the representative for every Host on that IMP/TIP. The one exception is that any Host organization that wants a phone call about its IMP/TIP downtime can nominate a "secondary contact" 📞. That person's name and a phone number where they can be reached should be sent in using any of these methods:

US mail

    Network Control Center
    Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc.
    50 Moulton Street
    Cambridge, Mass. 02138
    ATTN: Alexander McKenzie

Journal system

    Ident = AAM

Network mail

    MCKENZIE at BBN-TENEX

After the NCC schedules downtime with the primary contact, the operators will ring up the secondary contact 📱✨.

Here's the current list of primary site contacts (with backup "primary" contacts in brackets) 🧚:

UCLA - Anita Coley (Dave Crocker, Lou Nelson)
SRI - Jim White (Don Wallace)
UCSB - Ron Stoughton (Bob Ploger)
Utah - Dennis Ting
BBN (IMP) - Steve Chipman
MIT-MAC - Al Vezza (Abhay Bhushan)
RAND - Roy Yashimura
SDC - Ken Brandon (Doug Pintar)
Harvard - Bob Nickerson
Lincoln - John Laynor
Stanford - Ted Panofsky (Lester Earnest)
Illinois - Jack Bouknight (Gary Grossman)
Case - Dave Reide (Alan Rosenfeld)
Carnegie - Bill Broadley
AMES IMP - John McConnell (Paul Zima, Dick Brown)
AMES TIP  - Bob Linebarger (Toby Gonzales, Glen Holtzer)
MITRE -   Jean Iseli (Susan Poh)
RADC - Tom Lawrence (Grant Strength)
NBS - Tom Pyke (Bob Rosenthal)
ETAC - Capt. Petregal (John Smith)
LLL - Robert Abbott (Bob Sherwood)
ISI - Tom Boynton (Jerry Pipes)
USC - James Pepin
GWC - Capt. Goldsmith (Peggy Irving)
DOCB - Dave Lillie (Sky Stevenson)
SDAC - Buz Owen (Vernon Bruffey, Rick Perez, Bill Whyte)
Belvoir - Ken Gibson (Larry Wright)
ARPA - Steve Crocker (Pam Cutler)
Aberdeen - Melvin Wrublewski
CCA - Phil Peterson (Hal Murray)
Xerox - Robert Taylor (Bob Metcalfe)
FNWC -  R. Mottencamper (Merrill Peterson)
LBL - Bob Fink (Jose Alvarez)
UCSD - Jim Madden (Grant Rostad)
Hawaii - John Davidson
RML - Mike Young
NORSAR - Per Tveitane (Oddnund Hansen)
London - Peter Kirstein (Hugh Gamble)
Tymshare - Mike Marrah (Robert Martinez)
MIT-IPG - Leo J. Ryan (Mike Padlipsky)
Moffett - Ed Mortenson (Gene Lichner)
Rutgers - Tom Webb (Jeff Broido)
Wright-Patterson - Capt. Woodward (Fred Pitts)

If your site's "primary" contact needs to change, just let Alex know 💌🦋.

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