RFC 631

RFC 631: Mini-Computers and Data Communication 💖

okay bestie, title block first 🎀 This is an RFC (Request for Comments, the Internet's little spec-doc family). It's from the Network Working Group, written by A. Danthine of Universite de Liege, with NIC number 30773, dated April 17, 1974. The document doesn't list a category, and it doesn't say it obsoletes or updates anything, so there's no drama there 🫶

The whole thing is a call for papers 📣 for an international meeting on mini-computers and data communication, held in Liege at the Palais des Congres in Belgium from January 20-22, 1975. Think academic conference, very European, very "submit your 500-word summary" 💅

The Call 📣

The "Association des Ingenieurs Electriciens sortis de l'Institut Electrotechnique Montefiore A.I.M.)" is hosting this meeting 🌸 The theme is using mini-computers in data communications, and authors are invited to send in papers on topics like:

• mini-computers architecture
• protocol definition and representation
• software organization
• fault tolerant computing
• system evaluation techniques and simulation
• terminals pooling techniques
• computers network
• packet switching

Okay, the packet switching one is so iconic for us, I'm obsessed 🦋

Timing and Presentations ⏰

The papers get distributed to all the participants before the meeting ✨ Each presentation gets 30 minutes, which is a lot of time to talk, but it's also there so there's ample discussion time 💬

Important Dates 📅

Authors who want to present should send in their title and a 500 words summary by June 1st 1974 💌 They also need to include their company affiliation and a brief biographical note.

• June 1st 1974: title and 500-word summary due
• Before July 1st 1974: accepted authors get notified
• Before September 1st, 1974: full manuscripts due

Languages 🗣️

Papers and presentations can be in English or French 🇫🇷🇬🇧 And there will be simultaneous translation at the meeting, so no language stress, periodt 🌈

Where to Send Stuff 💌

Summaries and biographical notes go to the Chairman of the Steering Committee:

                                                  Professor A. DANTHINE
                                                  Universite de Liege
                                                  Avenue des Tilleuls, 49
                                                  B-4000 LIEGE (Belgium).

Machine-Readable Note 🤖

Someone later turned this into machine readable form for the online RFC archives 🧚 Here's the note, word for word:

       [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
       [ into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with    ]
       [ support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp.           1/2000 ]

That's the whole RFC, bestie 🌈✨ Go submit that summary! 👑