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diff --git a/doc/rfc/rfc510.txt b/doc/rfc/rfc510.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0674486 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rfc/rfc510.txt @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ + + + + + + +Network Working Group J. White +Request for Comments: 510 SRI-ARC +NIC: 16400 30 May 1973 + + + Request for Network Mailbox Addresses + + To Liaisons: + + Within the next few weeks, the NIC will begin providing Network + Journal delivery to those users in the Net who desire it. + + Submission of Journal articles will also be possible through FTP. + + Each user will then have his choice of three Journal delivery modes: + ONLINE delivery to the AUTHOR branch of his initial file at the NIC, + HARDCOPY delivery to his place of business via the Postal Service, + and NETWORK delivery to his on-line mailbox at his home host. Each + user may select any or all forms of delivery. + + Initially, Network Journal delivery will consist of the following: + + Each piece of mail addressed to the user will be delivered to a + host and mailbox of his choosing, using the mail command(s) + defined by the File Transfer Protocol. The mail will contain in + its text, a header containing the author's NIC Ident, the date of + submission, a title, etc., and either the text of the message or, + if it's long, a pointer to it (according to the 'Submit Message' + and 'Submit File' distinction in NLS Journal submission). More + than one piece of Journal mail may, in general, be delivered as a + single piece of FTP mail. + + The user's delivery host and mailbox will be stored in the NIC's + Ident file, and the user can change or view them (along with his + delivery mode(s)) from the Identification System in NLS. + + The pointer sent to the user for bulk mail will be a pathname by + which an FTP user process, acting on the user's behalf, can + retrieve the text of the mail from SRI-ARC. The pathname will + contain the necessary parameters to cause SRI-ARC's FTP server + process to convert the file from NLS (tree-structured) to + sequential form before transmission. + + The purpose of this memo is not to document the service (we'll do + that as soon as it's available), but to solicit help from Liaisons, + each of whom is asked to provide the NIC with the following + information for EACH user affiliated with his host organization who + desires Network Journal delivery: + + + +White [Page 1] + +RFC 510 Request for Network Mailbox Addresses 30 May 1973 + + + (1) His NIC Ident. + + (2) The type(s) of delivery he desires, if any, IN ADDITION TO + Network delivery. + + It's fair, for example, to retain one's current delivery mode + initially until convinced that Network delivery really works. + + (3) The standard host name or decimal host address of the host at + which he desires delivery. + + TIP users, for example, may choose to receive delivery at + their favorite TENEX host. + + (4) The 'user name' his host's FTP server process requires to + identify him in the context of an FTP mail command. + + For a TENEX user, for example, that's his directory. + + Please communicate answers to these questions in writing to Jim White + -- to JEW through the Journal, to WHITE@SRI-ARC via FTP mail, or to + Jim White at the NIC via the Postal Service. All information + obtained in response to this memo will be made accessible form NLS + (as already mentioned) and from a yet-to-be-written Ident server + process, and will be maintained by the NIC as a functional document + in on-line and hardcopy forms. + + We ask Liaisons to assume responsibility for providing delivery + parameters for all interested users at their host, although + information will be gladly accepted from anyone who chooses to + provide it. + + Thanks. + + Jim White + + + [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] + [ into the online RFC archives by Tim Mains 12/97 ] + + + + + + + + + + + + +White [Page 2] + |