RFC 78

NCP Status Report: UCSB/RAND 💖

okay bestie, so this is RFC 78, also known as NIC 5199, from the Network Working Group 🎀 It was written by E. Harslem, J. Heafner, and J. White 🫶 The original doesn't list a date, a category, or anything it obsoletes or updates, so there's no extra drama to track 🦋

NCP Checkout

UCSB and RAND recently ran a validation exercise where the UCSB console talked to the RAND console and the other way around, to check each site's NCP 🧚 The whole point was just to confirm that the NCPs behaved the way Document #1 says they should ✨

What was Learned

The UCSB and RAND NCPs responded as specified in Document #1, so both passed the vibe check 👑 RAND did find a few minor problems with its Network Services Program (NSP), the piece that hooks video graphics consoles up to the NCP 💅 The problems were about data format conversions and the human factors side of how status info shows up on the display 🌸

The Immediate Future

1. Both UCSB and RAND are totally down to team up with other sites to verify their NCPs 🌈
2. They plan to run more exercises covering data re-configurations and file transmissions 🔥

JFH:hs 🍓

[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Josh Elliott 1/98 ] 💜