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+NETWORK WORKING GROUP E. FORMAN
+REQUEST FOR COMMENTS # 274 MITRE
+NIC # 7901 1 November 1971
+CATEGORIES F, G
+UPDATES: NONE
+OBSOLETES: NONE
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+ ESTABLISHING A LOCAL GUIDE FOR NETWORK USAGE
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+ Actual experiences and experimentation with network systems and
+subsystems will be an important supplement to existing NIC
+documentation. For this reason, MITRE, to facilitate local user
+access to network resources, is planning to establish a local GUIDE TO
+NETWORK USAGE to supplement the Resources Notebook and other NIC
+documentation. The Guide will be tailored to the needs of MITRE users
+and will contain information on network systems and subsystems. (We
+cannot precisely define systems and subsystems at this time but as an
+example of what we have in mind, TENNEX at SRI is a system and NLS is
+a subsystem.)
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+ The Guide will be implemented under NLS in much the same fashion
+as the NIC LOCATOR SYSTEM. Information gathered that is appropriate
+for the NIC but not yet included will be submitted for inclusion in
+the NIC.
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+ Attached is an outline of the proposed NLS files for the Guide
+System. The information included in the Guide will be sufficiently
+detailed to enable local users who are unfamiliar with the network,
+its terminology, and stores of reference material to utilize resources
+at foreign hosts via the network.
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+ Sites will be included in the Guide as local users gain
+experience with systems and subsystems located at the remote sites.
+Therefore, the sites most likely to be in the Guide will be those that
+can be used to support MITRE projects.
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+ We are planning to coordinate our efforts in this undertaking
+with a similar effort at the National Bureau of Standards. We believe
+that such endeavors will result in valuable contributions to the NIC,
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+particularly to the Network Resources Notebook. Although the Guide
+will be tailored for MITRE users, it will contain information of
+general interest to other network users and will be made accessible to
+them through NLS.
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+ The Guide should become operational during December 1971. Any
+comments on proposed contents of the Guide are welcome. Anyone
+wishing to cooperate in this effort should contact E. Forman at MITRE.
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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. 12/96 ]
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+ATTACHMENT
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+ An NLS "Site File" will be built for each site at which a
+resource is presently available to network users at MITRE. Initial
+files will be for those sites that offer resources that are of
+specific interest to the local community. A RESOURCE LOCATOR FILE
+will contain a table of contents of the SITE FILES and a list of the
+subsystems surveyed for each of these sites. The headings in the
+table of contents will contain links to the corresponding online site
+file documents.
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+<MITRE> RESOURCE-LOCATOR
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+ O Output processor directives
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+ 1 Text indicating how to use this file
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+ 2 Site identification
+ (Link)
+ 2A Subsystem list (with links)
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+ 3 Next site
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+ 4 Next site
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+<MITRE> SITE-FILE (one for each site)
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+ O Output processor directives
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+ 1 Text indicating how to use this file
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+ 2 Subsystem list (with links)
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+ 3 Periods of system availability
+ 4 Accounts
+ 4 Accounts
+ 4A List of accounts at site established by MITRE personnel
+ 4A1 For each account indicate:
+ - users
+ - who is allowed to use this account
+ - restrictions on use of system or subsystem with
+ with this account
+ - who to ask for password and ID (if the account
+ is open to use by all, list password and allowable
+ ID's)
+ 4A2 Next account
+ 4B How to establish a new account
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+ 5 System charges (special subsystem charges--if any--
+ will be listed with subsystem entry)
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+ 6 System Documentation
+ 6A Title
+ - Brief description
+ - NIC reference number
+ - link
+ - on hand at local station
+ - local users who have copy
+ - where to order
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+ 7 Log in procedures (special log in procedures for sub-
+ systems (if any) will be listed with the subsystem entry)
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+ 8 Special considerations when used with the following
+ local (network user) equipment:
+ 8A With devices -----, -----
+ - NIC reference numbers
+ - links
+ - list of special considerations when used with this
+ system (e.g., special characteristics, half or
+ full duplex)
+ 8B With devices
+ ...
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+<MITRE> SITE-FILE (continued)
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+ 9 Comments on system usage and performance such as
+ reliability, availability, recent user experience,
+ bugs, differences from documentation (similar to NIC
+ Journal Folklore)
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+ 10 Subsystem " "
+ 10A Brief capability description
+ References and links
+ 10B Subsystem documentation
+ 10B1 Title
+ - brief description
+ NIC reference number
+ - link
+ - on hand at local station?
+ - local users who have copy
+ - where to order
+ 10B2 Next document
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+ 10C Periods of availability--same as system or list
+ special subsystem availability times
+ 10D Special subsystem charges if any
+ 10E Log in procedures-if special log in procedure needed
+ for subsystem
+ 10F Special considerations when used with the following
+ local (network user) equipment:
+ 10F1 With devices -----, -----
+ - NIC reference numbers
+ - links
+ - list of special considerations when used with
+ this subsystem (e.g., special characteristics,
+ half or full duplex)
+ 10F2 With devices -----, -----
+ ...
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+ 10G Comments on subsystem usage and performance such as
+ reliability, availability, recent user experience, bugs,
+ differences from documentation (similar to NIC
+ Journal Folklore)
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+ 11 Subsystem " "
+ ...
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