kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@buit1.bu.edu (Kent W. England)) (06/11/87)
In article <100@spdcc.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: >It's unfortunate that Padlipsky, in naming his collection of essays >"The Elements of Networking Style", seems to have eschewed all the >recommendations of its namesake, "The Elements of Style" by Strunk >and White. ... >I wonder, too, how accessible much of the material is to newcomers--many >of the essays dive immediately into the details of NCP, the protocol suite >used on the ARPAnet before the introduction of TCP/IP. When I was reading >it, I was glad that I had worked at BBN during the NCP/TCP transition where >I had to support both protocol suites--I had some context to work with. > I really think Dave Crocker or Ungermann-Bass should publish his tutorial on TCP/IP. It's brief, but complete, technical, but accessible. By the way, it was distributed in the conference binder at the recent U-B Net/One user group conference in Cambridge, MA in May. I am not sure of the copyright status of this draft, so maybe I shouldn't be encouraging distribution. (If U-B knew it was valuable their marketing people would put a $79.95 price tag on it :-) But it's too valuable a contribution to just let it sit there unnoticed and undistributed. What do you say, Dave? -- -------------------------------------------- | Kent W. England | | Network & Systems Engineering Group | | Boston University | | Information Technology | | 111 Cummington Street | | Boston, MA 02215 | | (617) 353-2780 | | kwe@buit1.bu.edu internet | | itkwe@bostonu BITNET | --------------------------------------------