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+Network Working Group                                    J. Postel (ISI)
+Request for Comments:  1121                          L. Kleinrock (UCLA)
+                                                           V. Cerf (NRI)
+                                                         B. Boehm (UCLA)
+                                                          September 1989
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+                          Act One - The Poems
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+Status of this Memo
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+   This RFC presents a collection of poems that were presented at "Act
+   One", a symposium held partially in celebration of the 20th
+   anniversary of the ARPANET.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
+
+Introduction
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+   The Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los
+   Angeles (UCLA) organized a Symposium on Very High Speed Information
+   Networks as the first in a projected series of meetings on Advanced
+   Computer Technologies, thus ACT ONE.  The time was chosen to also
+   commemorate the 20th anniversary of the installation of the first
+   Interface Message Processor (IMP) on the ARPANET which took place at
+   UCLA.
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+   The Symposium took on a theatrical theme and a few of the speakers
+   could not resist the temptation to commit poetry.  This memo is an
+   attempt to capture the result.
+
+The Poems
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+                                  WELCOME
+                                    by
+                             Leonard Kleinrock
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+   We've gathered here for two days to examine and debate
+   And reflect on data networks and as well to celebrate.
+   To recognize the leaders and recount the path we took.
+   We'll begin with how it happened; for it's time to take a look.
+
+   Yes, the history is legend and the pioneers are here.
+   Listen to the story - it's our job to make it clear.
+   We'll tell you where we are now and where we'll likely go.
+   So welcome to ACT ONE, folks.  Sit back - enjoy the show!!
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+Postel & Kleinrock & Cerf & Boehm                               [Page 1]
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+RFC 1121                  Act One - The Poems             September 1989
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+                              ODE TO A QUEUE
+                                    by
+                             Leonard Kleinrock
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+                   In the 20 years of funding
+                   Many fields has DARPA led.
+                   But the finest thing that they did bring
+                   Was the analytic thread.
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+                   By that I mean they nurtured
+                   Quantitative research tools.
+                   And they always felt for all their gelt
+                   They got principles and rules.
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+                   Indeed a wealth of knowledge
+                   Was uncovered and was new.
+                   And the common thread with which we led
+                   Was the analytic queue!
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+                   Now a queue may have one server.
+                   If there's more, they form a team.
+                   Its dearest wish is just to fish
+                   In a quiet Poisson stream.
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+                   If you want to model networks
+                   Or a complex data flow
+                   A queue's the key to help you see
+                   All the things you need to know.
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+                   So the next time you feel lonely
+                   And wonder what to do,
+                   You'll soon feel fine if you join the line
+                   Of an analytic queue!
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+                           THE PAST IS PROLOGUE
+                                    by
+                             Leonard Kleinrock
+
+                   The past is prologue so they say.
+                   So Scene 1 was played today.
+                   It set the stage to point the way
+                   To high speed nets on Friday.
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+                   And old slow IMP, a costly link,
+                   Codes to fix the lines that stink,
+                   Ideas born in tanks that think,
+                   Tomorrow's distance sure to shrink.
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+Postel & Kleinrock & Cerf & Boehm                               [Page 2]
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+RFC 1121                  Act One - The Poems             September 1989
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+                   But first tonight we'll drink and eat.
+                   We'll take some time good friends to greet.
+                   Hear Bible class from Danny's seat.
+                   Those good old days were bittersweet!
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+                               THE BIG BANG!
+                       (or the birth of the ARPANET)
+                                    by
+                             Leonard Kleinrock
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+   It was back in '67 that the clan agreed to meet.
+   The gangsters and the planners were a breed damned hard to beat.
+   The goal we set was honest and the need was clear to all:
+   Connect those big old mainframes and the minis, lest they fall.
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+   The spec was set quite rigid:  it must work without a hitch.
+   It should stand a single failure with an unattended switch.
+   Files at hefty throughput 'cross the ARPANET must zip.
+   Send the interactive traffic on a quarter second trip.
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+   The spec went out to bidders and t'was BBN that won.
+   They worked on soft and hardware and they all got paid for fun.
+   We decided that the first node would be we who are your hosts
+   And so today you're gathered here while UCLA boasts.
+
+   I suspect you might be asking "What means FIRST node on the net?"
+   Well frankly, it meant trouble, 'specially since no specs were set.
+   For you see the interface between the nascent IMP and HOST
+   Was a confidential secret from us folks on the West coast.
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+   BBN had promised that the IMP was running late.
+   We welcomed any slippage in the deadly scheduled date.
+   But one day after Labor Day, it was plopped down at our gate!
+   Those dirty rotten scoundrels sent the damned thing out air freight!
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+   As I recall that Tuesday, it makes me want to cry.
+   Everybody's brother came to blame the other guy!
+   Folks were there from ARPA, GTE and Honeywell.
+   UCLA and ATT and all were scared as hell.
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+   We cautiously connected and the bits began to flow.
+   The pieces really functioned - just why I still don't know.
+   Messages were moving pretty well by Wednesday morn.
+   All the rest is history - packet switching had been born!
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+Postel & Kleinrock & Cerf & Boehm                               [Page 3]
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+RFC 1121                  Act One - The Poems             September 1989
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+                         ROSENCRANTZ AND ETHERNET
+                                    by
+                                 Vint Cerf
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+   All the world's a net!  And all the data in it merely packets
+   come to store-and-forward in the queues a while and then are
+   heard no more.  'Tis a network waiting to be switched!
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+   To switch or not to switch?  That is the question.  Whether
+   'tis wiser in the net to suffer the store and forward of
+   stochastic networks or to raise up circuits against a sea
+   of packets and, by dedication, serve them.
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+   To net, to switch.  To switch, perchance to slip!
+   Aye, there's the rub.  For in that choice of switch,
+   what loops may lurk, when we have shuffled through
+   this Banyan net?  Puzzles the will, initiates symposia,
+   stirs endless debate and gives rise to uncontrolled
+   flights of poetry beyond recompense!
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+                                 UNTITLED
+                                    by
+                                Barry Boehm
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+                   Paul Baran came out of the wood
+                   With a message first misunderstood
+                      But despite dangers lurking
+                      The IMP's were soon working
+                   And ARPA did see it was good.
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+                   So in place of our early myopia
+                   We now have a net cornucopia
+                      With IMP's, TIP's, and LAN's
+                      Wideband VAN's, MAN's, and WAN's
+                   And prospects of World Net Utopia.
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+                   But though we must wind up the clock
+                   With thoughts of downstream feature shock
+                      We all be can mollified
+                      For there's no one more qualified
+                   To discuss this than Leonard Kleinrock.
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+Postel & Kleinrock & Cerf & Boehm                               [Page 4]
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+RFC 1121                  Act One - The Poems             September 1989
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+Notes
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+   The Symposium was held August 17 & 18, 1989, a Thursday and Friday.
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+   "Welcome" was presented on Thursday morning during the Overture.
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+   "Ode to a Queue" was presented in the Thursday morning session on
+   "Giant Steps Forward: Technology Payoffs".
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+   "The Past is Prologue" was presented at the end of the Thursday
+   afternoon sessions.
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+   "The Big Bang!" was presented during the after dinner events on
+   Thursday night.
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+   "Rosencrantz and Ethernet" was presented at the morning session on
+   Friday on "Communication Technologies in the next Millenium" (note
+   that this version may differ slightly from the actual presentation
+   since it was reconstructed from human memory several weeks later).
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+   The untitled poem by Barry Boehm was presented in the Friday
+   afternoon session on "Impact on Government, Commerce and Citizenry".
+   Barry gave his talk on "The Software Challenge to Our Technical
+   Aspirations" then introduced the next speaker with this poem.
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+Security Considerations
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+Authors' Addresses
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+   Jon Postel
+   USC/Information Sciences Institute
+   4676 Admiralty Way
+   Marina del Rey,  CA  90292-6695
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+   Phone: 213-822-1511
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+   EMail: Postel@ISI.EDU
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+Postel & Kleinrock & Cerf & Boehm                               [Page 5]
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+   Leonard Kleinrock
+   University of California
+   Computer Science Department
+   3732G Boelter Hall
+   Los Angeles, CA 90024-1600
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+   Phone: 213-825-2543
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+   EMail: lk@CS.UCLA.EDU
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+   Vinton G. Cerf
+   Corporation for National Research Initiatives
+   1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
+   Reston, VA 22091
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+   Phone: 703-620-8990
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+   EMail: VCerf@NRI.RESTON.VA.US
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+   Barry Boehm
+   University of California
+   Computer Science Department
+   3732 Boelter Hall
+   Los Angeles, CA 90024-1600
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+   Phone: 213-825-8137
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+   EMail: boehm@CS.UCLA.EDU
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