Memorandum: Date change of mail meeting
A rescheduled meeting to discuss network email protocols.
Kudlick, M.D., "Memorandum: Date change of mail meeting", RFC 456, DOI 10.17487/RFC0456, February 1973, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc456>.
@misc{rfc456,
series = {Request for Comments},
number = 456,
howpublished = {RFC 456},
publisher = {RFC Editor},
doi = {10.17487/RFC0456},
url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc456},
author = {M.D. Kudlick},
title = {{Memorandum: Date change of mail meeting}},
pagetotal = 1,
year = 1973,
month = feb,
} RFC text
Network Working Group M.D. Kudlick RFC # 456 SRI-ARC NIC # 14376 February 13, 1973 Updates: RFC 453 Meeting Announcement to Discuss a Network Mail System (Revised) This RFC announces a slight change in the meeting time for the Network Mail meeting discussed in RFC #453. The new meeting time is: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1973 8:30 AM SRI-ARC Conference Room If a second day is needed, we will meet on Saturday, February 24th. M.D. Kudlick [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] [ into the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with ] [ support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp. 9/99 ]
AI ELI5
On this page
§1Meeting Rescheduled
RFC 456 announces a change to the schedule of a Network Mail System working group meeting originally announced in RFC 453. The new meeting date was Friday, February 23, 1973 at 8:30 AM, held at the SRI-ARC Conference Room.
The network mail meeting was moved to Friday, February 23rd.
§2Backup Plan
The RFC notes that if a second day was needed to complete the discussions, the group would meet on Saturday, February 24th. This flexibility allowed the working group to resolve all necessary issues without being constrained by a single-day schedule.
If they could not finish on Friday, they would meet again on Saturday.
§3Early Network Mail Development
This meeting was part of the early effort to standardize how electronic mail could be transmitted over the ARPANET. The design of network mail protocols was a significant undertaking that required coordination among multiple research sites. The flexibility to extend the meeting to a second day reflected the complexity of the problem and the importance of reaching consensus on design decisions.
The working group was trying to figure out how to send mail between computers on the network, and this meeting was part of that effort.