home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- NETWORK WORKING GROUP Alexander McKenzie(BBN)
- Request For Comments #421 27-NOV-72
- NIC #12897
-
- A SOFTWARE CONSULTING SERVICE FOR NETWORK USERS
-
- As actual or attempted Network use has grown, it has become
- increasingly apparent that users with real problems to solve are not
- afforded the kinds of software assistance and consulting services
- normally provided by computer service facilities. Two mechanisms which
- were designed to help fill the void in the past are the Resources
- Notebook and the designation of Techincal Liaisons. Unfortunately, the
- Resources Notebook tends to have a long undate cycle, and Technical
- Liaisons are frequently systems programmers who may work at odd hours
- and are sometimes impatient with the questions of naive users.
-
- In an attempt to deal with this problem in a more satisfactory way,
- BBN recently aided a "software consultant", Nancy Neigus, to the
- Networtk Control Center staff. Nancy has extensive software experience
- on a number of systems, and has spent the last few months familiarizing
- with server systems and subsystems via the network.
-
- This consulting service is experimental in nature, and as such its
- limits, even its continued existance, will be influenced by the
- expressed needs of the user community. Altough the primary goal is for
- Nancy to provide assistan ce in using existing resources, we do not
- (currently) exclude the possibility of her participation in such
- projects as the checkout of protocol implementations and resolution of
- any discovered conflicts. In some cases, it may turn out that successful
- network operation of a subsystem requires changes to Host software; we
- will attempt to act as a repository and dispatch point of reported
- difficulties of its kind.
-
- Nancy can be contacted via the Network Control Center
- telephone:
- (617) 611-0100
- Collect calls will be accepted. She will normally be available between
- 9am and 5pm (Eastern Time) weekdays, but the NCC has round-the-clock
- operator coverage and the operators will take messages for her at
- other times. Online messages may also be left at the NIC for "NJN",
- or, for TIP users, vis the "Gripe" service (see TIP news).
-
- Please inform users at your site of the this software
- consulting service, and encourage them to try it.
-
- [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
- [ into the online RFC archives by Chakravarthy Paila 4/97]
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-