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- NWG/RFC #372 Richard W. Watson
- NIC 11022 (SRI-ARC)
- 12-JUL-72
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- NOTES ON A CONVERSATION WITH BOB KAHN ON THE ICCC
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- I called Bob Kahn and had a good chat with him about some aspects
- of the ICCC meeting demonstration. The points discussed and his
- answers were the following.
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- What is the physical environment going to be like?
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- Bob has arranged for the Georgetown Ballroom of the Hilton
- Hotel; it has 3000 square feet probably about 75x40 (exact
- dimensions are not known to Bob at this time).
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- A carpeted false floor is to be installed and there will be
- a partition for an area to show a movie on resource sharing
- which will run more or less continuously.
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- There will not be booths in the normal sense but details
- are not yet worked out. Bob expects to have tables
- arranged around the room holding 1 or 2 terminals and low 4
- ft. partitions to break up the space.
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- Who will man the booths?
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- Bob presently expects many terminals to be unmanned,
- although manufcturers could have a sales rep.
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- There will probably be people from net sites at some of
- them from time to time to demonstrate their programs.
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- We discussed the need for lots of experts from the network
- around who can answer questions and help people. Bob is in
- favor of such a thing but has not had time yet to pull such
- a group together and there is some uncertainty if enough
- people will volunteer, his initial approach to people
- yielded lots of people interested but with other things to
- do.
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- When will the equipment be on the floor and available to try
- there?
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- NWG/RFC# 372 RWW 12-JUL-72 9:39 11022
- Notes on a Conversation with Bob Kahn on the ICCC
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- The conference is tues-thurs oct 24-26 and at the moment
- the room is only going to be available from the 22nd. This
- seems to be a short time to install floor, TIP, terminals,
- phone lines, etc and Bob is going to try to get the room
- the previous Wed or Fri, but doesn't know yet.
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- Bob would like to have working demo with terminals,
- resources at BBN in Aug.
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- What resources are presently committed?
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- UCLA Klinerock will have some network measurement stuff to
- demonstrate.
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- Stanford AI has indicated they will have some programs to
- demone.
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- Utah Tony Hearn will have his Reduce program to demo, Berry
- Wessler plans to demo something, Harvey Greenfield has some
- sort of mdical program.
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- RAND before recent sakeup indicated iterest, status now not
- known.
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- SDC will have some natural language programs and their
- data management systems.
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- MIT Vezza and Kahn are looking into having some hardcopy
- device such as Photon attached to a GE TS system. Al has
- some other things to demo.
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- Bob has contacted a number of non net sources such as the
- NY Times (data base), Eastern Airlines etc., but has no
- definite commitments yet.
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- We at ARC will of course have a number of things to
- demonstrate.
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- This ARPANET demo is the only show at the conference. Larry
- Roberts has invited the ASIS people over for Thurs afternoon.
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- NWG/RFC# 372 RWW 12-JUL-72 9:39 11022
- Notes on a Conversation with Bob Kahn on the ICCC
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- The TIP has at this time never been tested with 64 terminals,
- but they are going to be putting as many terminal on as
- possible during July and testing the terminal to be supplied
- ford the conference.
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- Starting about AUg 1 he expects to start testing to see what
- terminals work with what resources and what glitches exist.
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- I asked Bob if we could have enough space for a ARC NIC booth
- with an IMLAC TI and room for people to watch our demo's. Bob
- saw no problem there; IMLAC has committed 2 terminals and we
- can have one. TI has not indicated they plan to loan terminal
- for the show. Hiram French is the man from IMLAC who is
- supposed to call us. If there are more than 64 terminal or
- the TIP can't support all, then they will have to schedule
- terminal connections to the TIP.
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- Bob is not sure who will be at the conference, its theme is
- networks and their impact on soceity, implications for
- regulation etc. so ther should be a broad spectrum of people;
- will send me a program.
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- We talked about what kind of documentation help, signs etc
- will be around to help people connect and use resources and
- generally understand wha the deomo is allabout.
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- Bob's present picture is some large 2x3 signs in the lobby
- outside the main lecture room directing people to the demo
- and then some signs inside explaining what's happening, a
- card with some TIP commands,resources, a brochure with
- actual scenerios of resource usage, the movie and some
- people as the main on the floor sources of help.
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- We talked about the need to coordinate all this with NIC
- documentation and our desire to help design all this. Bob
- and I are tentatively planning to get together the weekend
- of July 7 here to plan this. We need to have
- thoughtcthrough ahead of time what we think should be done.
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- ARPA except for Bob does not seem to have set up any budget for
- this show except what their contractors are essentially willing
- to give as part of their ongoing research, therefore he has a
- very difficult job of pulling off such a large show without more
- help than he seems to have gotten so far (these are my
- conclusions not satements of his).
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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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