29 July 1969

DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

This note is a revision of NWG/RFC #3

The Network Working Group seems to consist of Steve Carr at Utah, Elmer

Shapiro and Bill English SRI, Steve Crocker at UCLA, John Haefner at

RAND, Paul Rovner and Jim Curry at Lincoln Labs. Membership is not closed.

The Network Working Group (NWG) is concerned with the HOST software, the

strategies for using the network, and initial experience with the network.

Documentation of the NWG's effort is through notes such as this. Notes

may be produced at any site by anybody and included in this series.

CONTENT

The content of a NWG note may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related to

the HOST software or other aspect of the network. Notes are encouraged to

be timely rather than polished. Philosophical positions without examples

or other specifics, specific suggestions or implementation techniques

without introductory or background explication, and explicit questions

without any attempted answers are all acceptable. The minimum length for

a NWG note is one sentence.

These standards (or lack of them) are stated explicitly for two reasons.

First, there is a tendency to view a written statement as ipso facto

authoritative, and we hope to promote the exchange and discussion of

considerably less than authoritative ideas. Second, there is a natural

hesitancy to publish something unpolished, and we hope to ease this

inhibition.

FORM

Every NWG note should bear the following information:

1 "Network Working Group"

"Request for Comments:"x (x underscored)
where x is a serial number (x underscored)
Serial numbers are assigned by Steve Crocker at UCLA

2 Author and affiliation

3 Date

4 Title. The title need not be unique.

DISTRIBUTION

One copy only will bve sent from the author's site to:

1 Steve Crocker, UCLA

2. Ron Stoughton, UCSB

3 Elmer Shapiro, SRI

4. Steve Carr, Utah

5 John Haefner, RAND

6. Paul Rovner, LL

7 Bob Kahn, BB&N

8. Larry Roberts, ARPA

9 Jerry Cole, SDC

Reproduction if desired may be handled locally.

ADDRESSES

Below are the most current addresses I have. Please correct as necessary.

Steve Crocker UCLA
3732 Boelter Hall (213) 825-4864

	UCLA					      825-2543 Sec'y
	Los Angeles, California  90024

Ron Stoughton UCSB
Computer Research Lab. (805) 961-3221
UCSB
Santa Barbara, California 93106

Elmer Shapiro SRI
Stanford Research Institute (415)326-6200
333 Ravenswood
Menlo Park, California 94025

Steve Carr Utah
Computer Science Dept. (801) 322-8224
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84ll2

John Haefner RAND
The Rand Corp. (213) 393-0411
1700 Main Street
Santa Monica, California 90406

Paul D. Rovner LL
Mass. Inst. of Tech. (617) 662-5500
Lincoln Laboratory B-115 X7211

P.O Box 73

Lexington, Mass. 02173

Robert Kahn BBN
Bolt, Beranek and Newman (617) 491-1850

	50 Moulton St.				      49l-1868
	Cambridge, Mass.  02138

Larry Roberts ARPA
ODS/ARPA (202) OX 7-8663

	3D167 Pentagon				      OX 7-8654
	Washington, D.C.  2030l

Jerry Cole SDC
7842 Croyden 2500 Colorado

L.A., California 90045 Santa Monica, California 90406

(213) 393-9411
X438
X6019 Sec'y