RFC 87

TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION AT THE NEXT NETWORK WORKING GROUP MEETING ✨

Okay bestie, RFC 87 📝 is by A. Vezza and dated 12 January 1971, filed as NIC 5632 🦋. It's a discussion topic, not a spec, so it doesn't list a category, and it doesn't claim to obsolete or update anything. Let's get into it 💜

Project MAC is planning a network graphics meeting for April 🎨 and it wants some of the February Urbana meeting to go toward figuring out the length, format, structure, and contents of that April meeting. Maybe the group can start chatting about network graphics informally at Urbana 💬

Project MAC's current vibe on the length, structure, and format of the network graphics meeting:

1. The meeting is expected to be two FULL days 🗓️🔥
2. Each organization represented is expected to participate by presenting one or more working paper(s) on one or more of the areas chosen for discussion. A working paper minimally consists of a set of working notes and an oral presentation 📄 Who presents for an organization, or how the labor gets divided, is up to that organization 🫶
3. Most of the two full days goes to the prepared oral presentations, with discussion after each one 🎤 The last three hours of the second day are reserved for open discussion 🌈 That block is for critiquing this meeting, planning the next one, and bidding for special assignments that participating organizations might want to take on as a contribution to the network graphics effort 👑

Here's what Project MAC is thinking for content:

1. A description of present or future graphical facilities that are or will be connected to the network, with a functional description of how they work or look (or might look) to a user (network user) 🖼️
2. A functional description of a graphical facility one can envision or would like to see the network support ✨
3. Proposals on network graphic protocol. Even proposals that are only intended to smoke out issues are acceptable 🕵️‍♀️💅
4. A sharing of network graphic "Historic Moments." Describe your experiences in network graphics, what problems you ran into, and how you solved or lived with them 😭 What insight and understanding have you gained, and what questions have been left unanswered by these experiences? 🤔

These are just the present ideas, so if you have suggestions, pass them along to one of the people from your site going to the Urbana meeting so they can be discussed 🫶 You can also notify either Fran Yost or me by calling 617-864-6900-6026 or writing to:

Miss F. Yost
Project MAC/MIT
545 Technology Square, Room 830
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

I really hope we leave Urbana with a firm concept of the April network graphic meeting 🌸🧚

Also, I'd love for each participating organization to bring a list to the February meeting of its people who are actively engaged in graphics with facilities that are or will be on the network 💖

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