RFC 211 UNKNOWN MAIL · DISTRIBUTION
ARPA Network Mailing Lists
Three distribution lists for sending RFCs and documents across the ARPANET
RFC EDITOR
North, J.B., "ARPA Network Mailing Lists", RFC 211, DOI 10.17487/RFC0211, August 1971, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc211>.
BIBTEX
@misc{rfc211,
series = {Request for Comments},
number = 211,
howpublished = {RFC 211},
publisher = {RFC Editor},
doi = {10.17487/RFC0211},
url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc211},
author = {J.B. North},
title = {{ARPA Network Mailing Lists}},
pagetotal = 13,
year = 1971,
month = aug,
} RFC text
Network Working Group J.B. North Request for Comments: 211 Stanford Research Institute Obsoletes: RFC 168 NIC 6785 August 1971 NIC: 7191 ARPA Network Mailing Lists The following are three lists to be used for distribution of Network documents. List A should be used by sites when they distribute their own documents, to get RFC's to Liaisons as quickly as possible. All but local mail should be sent Air Mail. Lists B and C will be used by NIC in making distribution of copies to non-site Network Participants and to Station Agents. A distribution list for the Network Graphics Group has been sent to members of that Group, and will included in the forthcoming Directory of Network Participants. For phone numbers and lists of name by sites, see the Current Directory of Network Participants. A. Initial Distribution List Note: this list includes all Network Liaisons and others who should receive initial distribution of RFC's, whether sent from NIC or from sites. They will also receive selected catalogs and other formal documents from NIC. Ames-CD A. Wayne Hathaway Mail Stop 233-9 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, Calif. 94035 AMES-ILLIAC John W. McConnell NASA Ames Research Center Mail Stop 237-9 Moffett Field, Calif. 94035 ARPA Steve D. Crocker Advanced Research Projects Agency 1400 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, Virginia 22209 BBN-NET Alex McKenzi Bold Beranek and Newman Inc. 50 Moulton Street Cambridge, Mass. 02138 BBN-TENEX Robert H. Thomas Bold Beranek and Newman Inc. 50 Moulton Street Cambridge, Mass. 02138 CASE Dr. Patrick W. Foulk Jennings Computing Center Room 306, Crawford Hall Case Western Reserve Laboratory 10900 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44106 CCA Richard A. Winter Computer Corporation of America 565 Technology Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139 CMU Harold R. Van Zoeren Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department Schenley Park Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 HARV Robert L. Sundberg Harvard University Aiken Computation Laboratory 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, Mass. 02138 IMBW Douglas McKay IBM Watson Research Center P.O. Box 218 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 ILL James M. Madden University of Illinois Center for Advanced Computation 168 Engineering Research Laboratory Urbana, Illinois 61801 LINC-67 Joel M. Winett Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Mass. 02173 LINC-TX2 William Kantrowitz Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Mass. 02173 MIT-DMCG Aphay Bhushan Project MAC 545 Technology Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139 MIT-MULTICS See MIT-DMCG MITRE Peggy M. Karp MITRE Cooperation Information Systems Dept., W140 Westgate Research Park McLean, Va. 22101 NBS Thomas N. Pyke, Jr. National Bureau of Standards Center for Computer Sciences and Technology Washington, D.C., 20234 NIC See SRI-ARC RADC Thomas Lawrence Rome Air Development Center (ISIM) Griffiss Air Force Base Rome, New York 13440 RAND John F. Heafner Rand Corporation Computer Science Department 1700 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90406 RAY Thomas O'Sullivan Raytheon Data Systems 1415 Boston-Providence Turnpike Norwood, Mass. 02062 SDC Abe S. Landsberg System Development Corporation 2500 Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, Calif. 90406 SRI B. Michael Wilber Stanford Research Institute Artificial Research Institute 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, Calif. 94205 SRI-ARC John T. Melvin Stanford Research Institute Augmentation Research Center 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, Calif. 94025 Jeanne B. North (for NIC) Stanford Research Institute Augmentation Research Center 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, Calif. 94025 SU-AI James A. [Andy] Moorer Stanford University Computation Center, AI Project Stanford, Calif. 94305 SU-HP Edward A. Feigenbaum Stanford University Heuristic Programming Serra House Stanford, Calif. 94305 UCLA-CCN Robert T. Braden University of California at Los Angeles 5308 Math Sciences Building Los Angeles, CA 90024 UCLA-NMC Ari O. Ollikalen University of California at Los Angeles Computer Science Department 3732 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, Calif. 90024 UCSB James E. White University of California at Santa Barbara Computer Research Laboratory Santa Barbara, Calif. 93106 USC James Perin University of Southern California School of Engineering Los Angeles, Calif. 90007 UTAH Barry D. Wessler University of Utah Computer Science/IRL Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 B. List for Distribution from NIC Note: These Network participants will receive all formal Network documents sent from NIC, in the mailing to Liaisons when such is made, otherwise at the time documents are sent to Station Agents. CCCTF C.D. Shepard Canadian Computer Communications Task Force 100 Metcalfe Street 4th Floor Ottawa 2, Canada DART Prof. Robert F. Hargraves Klewit Computation Center Dartmouth University Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 EDUCOM John LeGates EDUCOM 100 Charles River Plaza Boston, Mass. 02114 MERIT E.M. Aupperle MERIT Computer Network The University of Michigan 1037 N. University Building Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 NETH Tjaart Schipper 13 Marijkestreat Lederdrorp, Netherlands SUNY Prof. Art J. Bernstein SUNY Stoneybrook Dept. of Computer Science Stoneybrook, L.I., N.Y. 11790 UCI Prof. David Farber Dept. of Information and Computer Science University of California Irvine, Calif. 92664 UKICS Prof. Peter Kirstein Institute of Computer Science University of London 44 Gordon Square London, W.C.I. England WASHU Marianne Pepper Washington University Computer Systems Laboratory 724 South Euclid Avenue St. Louis, Mo. 63110 WATERU Prof. Donald Cowan Dept. of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada C. NIC Station Agents Note: Station Agents receive copies from NIC of all documents distributed to Liaisons, as well as documents sent as part of a Station collection. A mailing is made to Station Agents once a week, or oftener when quantity warrants. AMES-CD See AMES-ILLIAC AMES-ILLIAC Stan Golding Mail Stop 233-13 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, Calif. 94035 ARPA Margaret M. Opering Advanced Research Projects Agency 1400 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, Va. 22209 BBN-NET See BBN-TENEX BBN-TENEX Steve G. Chipman Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. 50 Moulton Street Cambridge, Mass. 02138 CASE John Barden Case Western Reserve University Computing and Information Sciences 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 44106 CCA Martha A. Ginsberg Computer Corporation of America 565 Technology Square Cambridge, Mass. 02139 CMU Carolyn M. Lisle Carnegie-Mellon University Computer Science Department Schenley Park Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213 HARV Bradley A. Reussow Harvard University Aiken Computation Laboratory 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, Mass. 02138 IBMW Douglas McKay IBM Watson Research Center P.O. Box 218 Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598 ILL Nan Brown University of Illinois Center for Advanced Computation 168 Engineering Research Laboratory Urbana, Ill. 61801 LINC-67 Carol J. Mostrom Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Mass. 02173 LINC-TX2 see LINC-67 MIT-DMCG Frances L. Knight Project MAC 545 Technology Square Cambridge, Mass. 02173 MIT-MULTICS see MIT-DMCG MITRE Madge B. Cornell MITRE Corporation Information Systems Dept., W150 Westgate Research Park McLean, Va. 22101 NBS Mrs. Shirley W. Watkins National Bureau of Standards Bldg. 225, Room B216 Washington, D.C. 20234 NIC see SRI-ARC RADC Marcella D. Petell Rome Air Development Center (ISIM) Griffiss Air Force Base Rome, New York 13440 RAND Linda M. Connelly Rand Corporation Computer Science Department 1700 Main Street Santa Monica, Calif. 90406 RAY Laura White Raytheon Data Systems 1415 Boston-Providence Norwood, Mass. 02062 SDC Janet W. Troxel System Development Corporation Information Processing Information Center 2500 Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, Calif. 90406 SRI-AI Rilla J. Reynolds Stanford Research Institute Artificial Intelligence Group 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, Calif. 94205 SRI-ARC Cindy Page Stanford Research Institute Augmentation Research Center 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, Calif. 94205 SU-AI Barbara A. Barnett Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Project D.C. Power Lab Stanford, Calif. 94305 SU-HP Carol Wilkinson Stanford University Heuristic Programming Project Serra House Stanford, Calif. 94305 UCLA-CCN Imogen C. Beattie University of California at Los Angeles 2531 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, Calif. 90024 UCLA-NMC Anita Coley University of California at Los Angeles Computer Science Department 3732 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, Calif. 90024 UCSB Connie Rosewall University of California at Santa Barbara Computer Research Laboratory Santa Barbara, Calif. 93106 USC Linda M. Webster University of Southern California Olin Hall of Engineering Room 240 Los Angeles, Calif. 90007 UTAH Nancy F. Bruderer University of Utah Computer Science/IWL Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
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PROBLEMAs the ARPANET grew, there was a need for multiple distribution lists to send RFCs and documents to different groups of participants and their local representatives.
MECHANISMRFC 211 defines three lists: List A for site liaisons to receive RFCs first, List B for other network participants, and List C for NIC Station Agents who handle local distribution.
THREE-TIER DISTRIBUTIONThis organized approach to document distribution remained the standard model through several RFC revisions. It was replaced by RFC 300.
§1Introduction
RFC 211 defines how network documents should be distributed in August 1971. The RFC specifies three separate mailing lists to serve different purposes as the ARPANET expanded beyond its original sites.
The RFC notes that sites sending their own documents should use List A to reach liaisons quickly, while the Network Information Center (NIC) uses Lists B and C for broader distribution to non-site participants and to station agents.
When someone sends a new network paper, different groups of people need to get it. This explains which list to use.
§2The Three Distribution Lists
List A (Initial Distribution) includes all network liaisons and others who should receive initial distribution of RFCs from either NIC or from sites. These recipients also get selected catalogs and formal documents from NIC.
List B (NIC Distribution) consists of network participants who will receive all formal documents sent from NIC, either when mailed to liaisons or when sent to station agents.
List C (Station Agents) lists the local representatives at each site. Station agents receive copies of all documents sent to liaisons, plus additional materials. NIC sends mailings to station agents once a week or more frequently as needed.
List A: The main people who need papers. List B: Other people on the network. List C: Local helpers who pass papers around at each site.
§3Scope and Geographic Coverage
The RFC covers about 25 major sites and institutions, expanding beyond RFC 155. It includes universities, research companies, and new international locations. The text recommends air mail for all but local deliveries.
This list supersedes RFC 168 and represents the ARPANET structure as it existed in August 1971. Like RFC 155, it reflects a time when physical mail was the only way to distribute documents across the network.
This is a bigger list than the last one, with new places added. It still uses postal mail, but with air mail for far-away places.