Network Working Group						S. Crocker
RFC-27								UCLA
								9 December 69





			DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS




This note is a revision of NWG/RFC 10, 16, and 24.

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 anybody 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 Comments: 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.  Gerry Cole, SDS
	4.  Steve Crocker, UCLA
	5.  Bill English, SRI
	6.  Kim Fry, MITRE
	7.  John Haefner, RAND
	8.  Bob Kahn, BB&N
	9.  Thomas O'Sullivan, Raytheon
       10.  Larry Roberts, ARPA
       11.  Paul Rovner, LL
       12.  Ron Stoughton, UCSB

Reproduction, if desired, may be handled locally.

ADDRESSES

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

	Abhai Bhushan			MIT
	Room 807 - Project MAC		(617) 864-6900 X5857
	545 Technology Square
	Cambridge, Mass. 02139

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

	Gerry Cole			SDC
	7842 Croyden			2500 Colorado
	Los Angeles, Calif. 90024	Santa Monica, Calif 90406
					(213) 393-9411, X6l35
							X6019 (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 Heafner			RAND
	The Rand Corporation		(213) 393-0411
	1700 Main Street
	Santa Monica, Calif. 90406

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

	Thomas O'Sullivan		Raytheon
	Raytheon Company		(617) 899-8400
	Equipment Division Headquarters
	40 Second Ave.
	Waltham, Mass. 02l54

	Larry Roberts			ARPA
	ODS/ARPA			(202) OX7-8663
	3D167				      OX7-8654
	Washington, D.C.  2030l

	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. 93106