The next meeting of the Network Working Group will be hosted by
- M.I.T.'s Project MAC in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Meeting is
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- scheduled to commence at 12 noon on September 26 an is tentatively
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- scheduled to adjourn on September 30. This Network Working Group
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- meeting is structured such that most participants will wish to attend
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- only one or two of the three phases of the meeting.
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The first phase is a system programmers workshop. It commence Sunday
- September 26, and continues through Monday the 27th. System programmers
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- should come prepared too: create a working demonstration of the use of
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- their host over the Network, discuss host to host protocol
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- implementation, and teach other system programmers how to use their
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- systems. The Dynamic Modeling/Computer Graphics PDP-10 system will be
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- placed at the disposal of the system programmers workshop, and DMCG
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- personnel will be available to assist in the creation of the
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- demonstrations. System programmers with operational Network capability
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- should plan to attend.
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Those planning to attend the system progammers workshop should
- contact Bob Metcalfe by leaving a message for him with Anne Speare at
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- (617) 864-6900 x1458.
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The second phase of the September meeting, which will begin on
- Tuesday the 28th and continue through Wednesday 29th, will be devoted to
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- workshops exploring and discussing issues associated with Network use.
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- Tentatively, the following five workshops are planned: (1) Network
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- climate research, (2) the Network service centers, (3) the Network NIC,
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- (4) Network on-line cooperative interaction, (5) a planning workshop for
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- an ICCC (The International Computer Communications Conference to be held
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- in Washington, D. C. in October of 1972) session and a demonstration.
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The workshops will be small and intensive. Attendence at a workshop
- is by invitation. How to make an application to a workshop, the scope of
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- each workshop, the workshop chairman, and a workshop meeting schedule
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- will be announced on August 16. Persons wishing to make an application
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- to form a workshop my do so by contacting Bob Kahn at BBN (617) 491-
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- 1850) x340, or by leaving a message with his secretary.
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- plenary session open to all Network Working Group members and visitors.
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- Its purpose is to present reports on the work- shops an to present some
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- prepared reports on Network activities.
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All NWG meeting attendees should register for the meeting by calling
- Anne Speare at (617) 864-6900 x1458. Assistance, for those who need it,
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- in procuring a room reservation may be obtained from Anne Speare.
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More to come on August 16, 1971. The Network Steering Committee
- members are: S. Crocker, J. Heafner, R. Kahn, J. Melvin, and A. Vezza.
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[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
[ into the online RFC archives by Gruss Gottfried 6/97 ]
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