Network meeting report
Jonathan B. Postel · 1970
This is a report on a series of three Network Working Group meetings at the Fall Joint Computer Conference, November 16, 17 and 18 in Houston, Texas.The meeting will be lumped together and ideas may or may not be identified as to their originator.The meetings were chaired by Steve Crocker.The meetings began with a listing of topics of concern. 1) A site or group should be designated as protocol testers.As NCP's are implemented they should be subjected to comprehensive testing by an independent group.2) The Host-Host protocol needs reworking in several areas: error control, overload conditions, allocation of resources, status information, and system crash problems.3) The immediate need for specification of TELNET, the third level program which allows people to pass through their local hosts and use remote hosts.TELNET must provide facilities to log in at a distant site, run programs, transmit files, and call for help.This call for help is likely to mean getting a systems programmer at the remote site "taking control" of the user console.