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- NETWORK WORKING GROUP E. FORMAN
- REQUEST FOR COMMENTS # 274 MITRE
- NIC # 7901 1 November 1971
- CATEGORIES F, G
- UPDATES: NONE
- OBSOLETES: NONE
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- ESTABLISHING A LOCAL GUIDE FOR NETWORK USAGE
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- Actual experiences and experimentation with network systems and
- subsystems will be an important supplement to existing NIC
- documentation. For this reason, MITRE, to facilitate local user
- access to network resources, is planning to establish a local GUIDE TO
- NETWORK USAGE to supplement the Resources Notebook and other NIC
- documentation. The Guide will be tailored to the needs of MITRE users
- and will contain information on network systems and subsystems. (We
- cannot precisely define systems and subsystems at this time but as an
- example of what we have in mind, TENNEX at SRI is a system and NLS is
- a subsystem.)
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- The Guide will be implemented under NLS in much the same fashion
- as the NIC LOCATOR SYSTEM. Information gathered that is appropriate
- for the NIC but not yet included will be submitted for inclusion in
- the NIC.
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- Attached is an outline of the proposed NLS files for the Guide
- System. The information included in the Guide will be sufficiently
- detailed to enable local users who are unfamiliar with the network,
- its terminology, and stores of reference material to utilize resources
- at foreign hosts via the network.
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- Sites will be included in the Guide as local users gain
- experience with systems and subsystems located at the remote sites.
- Therefore, the sites most likely to be in the Guide will be those that
- can be used to support MITRE projects.
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- We are planning to coordinate our efforts in this undertaking
- with a similar effort at the National Bureau of Standards. We believe
- that such endeavors will result in valuable contributions to the NIC,
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- particularly to the Network Resources Notebook. Although the Guide
- will be tailored for MITRE users, it will contain information of
- general interest to other network users and will be made accessible to
- them through NLS.
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- The Guide should become operational during December 1971. Any
- comments on proposed contents of the Guide are welcome. Anyone
- wishing to cooperate in this effort should contact E. Forman at MITRE.
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- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
- [ direction of Alex McKenzie. 12/96 ]
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- ATTACHMENT
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- An NLS "Site File" will be built for each site at which a
- resource is presently available to network users at MITRE. Initial
- files will be for those sites that offer resources that are of
- specific interest to the local community. A RESOURCE LOCATOR FILE
- will contain a table of contents of the SITE FILES and a list of the
- subsystems surveyed for each of these sites. The headings in the
- table of contents will contain links to the corresponding online site
- file documents.
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- <MITRE> RESOURCE-LOCATOR
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- O Output processor directives
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- 1 Text indicating how to use this file
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- 2 Site identification
- (Link)
- 2A Subsystem list (with links)
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- 3 Next site
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- 4 Next site
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- <MITRE> SITE-FILE (one for each site)
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- O Output processor directives
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- 1 Text indicating how to use this file
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- 2 Subsystem list (with links)
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- 3 Periods of system availability
- 4 Accounts
- 4 Accounts
- 4A List of accounts at site established by MITRE personnel
- 4A1 For each account indicate:
- - users
- - who is allowed to use this account
- - restrictions on use of system or subsystem with
- with this account
- - who to ask for password and ID (if the account
- is open to use by all, list password and allowable
- ID's)
- 4A2 Next account
- 4B How to establish a new account
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- 5 System charges (special subsystem charges--if any--
- will be listed with subsystem entry)
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- 6 System Documentation
- 6A Title
- - Brief description
- - NIC reference number
- - link
- - on hand at local station
- - local users who have copy
- - where to order
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- 7 Log in procedures (special log in procedures for sub-
- systems (if any) will be listed with the subsystem entry)
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- 8 Special considerations when used with the following
- local (network user) equipment:
- 8A With devices -----, -----
- - NIC reference numbers
- - links
- - list of special considerations when used with this
- system (e.g., special characteristics, half or
- full duplex)
- 8B With devices
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- <MITRE> SITE-FILE (continued)
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- 9 Comments on system usage and performance such as
- reliability, availability, recent user experience,
- bugs, differences from documentation (similar to NIC
- Journal Folklore)
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- 10 Subsystem " "
- 10A Brief capability description
- References and links
- 10B Subsystem documentation
- 10B1 Title
- - brief description
- NIC reference number
- - link
- - on hand at local station?
- - local users who have copy
- - where to order
- 10B2 Next document
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- 10C Periods of availability--same as system or list
- special subsystem availability times
- 10D Special subsystem charges if any
- 10E Log in procedures-if special log in procedure needed
- for subsystem
- 10F Special considerations when used with the following
- local (network user) equipment:
- 10F1 With devices -----, -----
- - NIC reference numbers
- - links
- - list of special considerations when used with
- this subsystem (e.g., special characteristics,
- half or full duplex)
- 10F2 With devices -----, -----
- ...
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- 10G Comments on subsystem usage and performance such as
- reliability, availability, recent user experience, bugs,
- differences from documentation (similar to NIC
- Journal Folklore)
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- 11 Subsystem " "
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