geof@MIT-BORAX.ARPA (Geoffrey H. Cooper) (01/16/86)
Noel Chiappa expressed a concern about getting information to non-arpanet subscribers about current ideas from the mainstream tcp world. I think that his idea of using usenet is a great one. The TCP-IP list is carried on usenet as mod.protocols.tcp-ip. I don't know exactly how this forwarding is set up (since mod.... means that it is supposed to be a moderated list, and I didn't think that the arpanet one was moderated), but it would be a great boon to those of us who mostly (or entirely) rely on UUCP links if RFC's were automatically fed down the pipe. We might avoid sending very long ones (>60 pages or so) for evfficiency reasons. [Please respond to the list, since incoming mail is flakey for me theseedays] - Geof Cooper Imagen
tcp-ip@ucbvax.UUCP (01/17/86)
A year or two ago I posted copies of the IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, TELNET, and FTP RFCs, as well as a few other ones like RFC822, to the USENET net.sources group (which is where big things like that get posted). It may be time to do that again. I'll confer with the moderator of the USENET mod.sources group to see what he thinks, and if he approves, this will be a reasonable way to spread the gospel. Wouldn't be too bad an idea if Berkeley would include some of these with their distribution tape either. They already send RFC822 (I think) with it so people will understand the 'sendmail' program better. Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 (619) 452-6865 decvax\ brian@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu ihnp4 >--- sdcsvax --- brian ucbvax/ Kantor@Nosc