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RJE Protocol meeting

A working meeting to design remote job entry protocols

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PUBLISHED
April 1972
AUTHORS
J. Postel
STREAM
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MEETING DATE
April 21, 1972
LOCATION
UCLA, Ackerman Student Union, Room 2412
HOURS
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
DOI
10.17487/RFC0324

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Network Working Group                                       J. Postel
Request for Comments #324                                   UCLA-NMC
NIC #9631                                                   3 April 72
Categories:  RJE



                          RJE Protocol Meeting


     There will be a meeting to discuss Remote Job Entry (RJE) protocols
in the ARPA Network on Friday 21 April 72.  The meeting will be held from
9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in room 2412 of the Ackerman Student Union Build-
ing at UCLA.

     Prospective attendees should contact Bryna Lang at (213) 825-2368
to confirm their attendance.

     Attendees should also be familiar with the previous work on ARPANET
RJE protocols, in particular the reports by McKenzie (25 Feb. 72) and
Kampe (8 March 72) from the previous RJE meeting.  Note that the Data and
File Transfer protocols are also relevant.










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PROBLEMThe ARPANET community needed to define a standard way for computers to submit jobs remotely to distant machines and receive results back.
MECHANISMJon Postel announced a one-day working meeting at UCLA on April 21, 1972, bringing together network researchers to discuss Remote Job Entry (RJE) protocol specifications.
STANDARDIZING REMOTE COMPUTINGThis meeting was part of a series that defined RJE standards, allowing different computers on the ARPANET to submit batch jobs to each other reliably.

§1The RJE Working Meeting

On April 3, 1972, Jon Postel of UCLA announced a working meeting to discuss Remote Job Entry (RJE) protocols for the ARPANET. The meeting would be held on Friday, April 21, 1972, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Ackerman Student Union Building at UCLA.

Jon Postel called a meeting to talk about how computers could send jobs to each other on the network.

§2What the Meeting Covered

Attendees were expected to have read earlier reports on RJE work by Alex McKenzie (from February 25, 1972) and Kampe (from March 8, 1972) from a previous RJE meeting. The current meeting would also consider the Data and File Transfer protocols as relevant to RJE, since moving jobs and their results required reliable data transfer mechanisms.

People had to do homework first, reading what was said about this before. The meeting would also talk about how to move files, since that is part of sending jobs.

§3Participation

The RFC invited prospective attendees to confirm their attendance by contacting Bryna Lang at (213) 825-2368. This brief notice was a typical way the early ARPANET community coordinated protocol development, with working groups gathering to debate and agree on technical details.

People signed up to come by calling a number. It was how the early network fixed how computers should talk to each other.