Network Working Group						S. Crocker
RFC-24								UCLA
								21 November 69



			DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS



This note is a revision of NWG/RFC 10 and 16.

The Network Working Group consists of interested people from existing or
potential ARPA network sites.  Membership is not closed.

The Network Working Group (NWG) is concerned with the HOST software,
the strategies for using the network, and initial experience with the
network.

Documentation of the NWG's effort is through notes such as this.  Notes
may be produced at any site by and included in this series.


CONTENT

The content of a NWG note may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related
to the HOST software or other aspect of the network.  Notes are
encouraged to be timely rather than polished.  Philosophical positions
without examples or other specifics, specific suggestions or
implementation techniques without introductory or background explication,
and explicit questions without any attempted answers are all acceptable.
The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence.


These standards (or lack of them) are stated explicitly for two reasons.
First, there is a tendency to view a written statement as ipso facto
authoritative, and we hope to promote the exchange and discussion of
considerably less than authoritative ideas.  Second, there is a natural
hesitancy to publish something unpolished, and we hope to ease this
inhibition.


FORM

Every NWG note should bear the following information:

	1.  "Network Working Group"
	    "Request for Comnments: X" (X underscored)
	      where X is a serial number.  Serial numbers are
	      assigned by Steve Crocker at UCLA.

	2.  Author and affiliation

	3.  Date

	4.  Title
	    The title need not be unique.


DISTRIBUTION

One copy only will be sent from the author's site to:

	1.  Abhai Bhushan, MIT
	2.  Steve Carr, Utah
	3.  Jerry Cole, SDC
	4.  Steve Crocker, UCLA
	5.  Bill English SRI
	6.  Kim Fry, MITRE
	7.  John Haefner, RAND
	8.  Bob Kahn, BB&N
	9.  Larry Roberts, ARPA
       10.  Paul Rovner, LL
       11.  Ron Stoughton, ECSB

Reproduction if desired may be handled locally.


ADDRESSES

Below are the most current addresses I have.  Please correct as necessary:

	Abhai Bhushan				MIT
	Room 807 - Project MAC			(617) 864-6790 X5857
	545 Technology Square
	Cambridge, Mass. 02139

	Steve Carr				Utah
	Computer Science Dept.			(801) 322-8224
	University of Utah
	Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

	Jerry Cole				SDC
	7842 Croyden				2500 Colorado
	Los Angeles, Calif. 90045		(213) 393-9411, X6135
								X67019 (Sec'y)

	Steve Crocker				UCLA
	3732 Boelter Hall			(213) 825-4864
	UCLA					      825-2543 (Sec'y)
	Los Angeles, Calif. 90024

	Bill English				SRI
	Stanford Research Institute		(415) 326-6200
	333 Ravenswood
	Menlo Park, Calif. 94025

	Kim Fry					MITRE
	The MITRE Corp.				(703) 893-3500, X355
	Westgate Research Park					X318
	McLean, Va. 22101

	John Haefner				RAND
	The Rand Corporation			(213) 393-0411
	1700 Main Street
	Santa Monica, Calif. 90406

	Robert Kahn				BBN
	Bolt, Beranek and Newman		(617) 491-1850
	50 Moulton St.				
	Cambridge, Mass. 02138

	Larry Roberts				ARPA
	ODS/ARPA				(202) OX7-8663
	3D167 Pentagon				      OX7-8654
	Washington, D.C.  20301

	Paul D. Rovner				LL
	Mass. Inst. of Tech.			(617) 562-5500 X7211
	Lincoln Laboratory B-115		
	P.O. Box 73
	Lexington, Mass. 02173

	Ron Stoughton				UCSB
	Computer Research Lab			(805) 961-3221
	UCSB
	Santa Barbara, Calif. 94025