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- NWG/ RFC #371 Robert Kahn
- NIC 11020 BBN
- 12 July 1972
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- DEMONSTRATION AT INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
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- The International Computer Communications Conference, scheduled
- for 24-26 October 1972 at the Washington, D.C. Hilton Hotel, is a
- newly organized conference intended to address a broad set of issues
- in the Computer Communications field. Approximately 17 sessions are
- currently planned for the conference. The social implications of this
- field are a matter of widespread interest that reaches society in
- almost all walks of life; education, medicine, research, business and
- government. All these areas will be affected as the field develops.
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- I am organizing a computer communication network demonstration to
- run in parallel with the sessions. This demonstration will provide
- attendees with the opportunity to gain first hand experience in the
- use of a computer network. The theme of the demonstration will be on
- the value of computer communication networks, emphasizing topics such
- as data base retrieval, combined use of several machines, real-time
- data access, interactive cooperation, simulation systems, simplified
- hard copy techniques, and so forth. I am hoping to present a broad
- sampling of computer based resources that will provide attendees with
- some perspective on the utility of computer communication networks.
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- Terminal equipment has already been offered by many different
- manufacturers and we are beginning to home in on the application
- areas. The plan is to deliver a TIP to the Hilton and to connect it
- into the ARPANET. All terminals at the Hilton will then be connected
- directly to the TIP. Software resources on the ARPANET as well as
- resources in other nets that can be temporarily connected to the
- ARPANET and made available for the purpose of demonstration will be
- available. In most cases it is possible to arrange for terminal
- access via the ARPANET to non ARPANET sites without hardware or
- software development on their part.
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- A significant amount of preparation by ourselves, the NIC, and
- others is being devoted to making it convenient for naive users to sit
- down at a terminal and effectively use "selected" resources without
- assistance. This involves the generation of "explicit" documentation
- in easy to understand terms -- a non-trivial task. However, we hope
- this effort will also be useful for other application in the long run.
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- NWG/RFC# 371 REK2 12-JUL-72 9:28 11020
- Demonstration at International Computer Communications Conference
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- We need the help of sites in the network community to pitch in
- and lend a hand. This is a large undertaking and much too big to be
- pulled off without a large committment in time and energy between now
- and October.
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- Many of you are already active in planning for ICCC. For those
- of you who may not yet be involved, someone will be contacting or will
- have contacted your technical liaison in the next few days. We hope
- you will join us in this effort. If you have suggestions about the
- demo or if you want particular information about it, please send me a
- message via the NIC (ident REK2) or get in touch with me at BBN (617)
- 491-1850 x 3401.
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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. 1/97 ]
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