Network Working Group meeting
Announcement of the next Network Working Group meeting
Crocker, S.D., "Network Working Group meeting", RFC 85, DOI 10.17487/RFC0085, December 1970, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc85>.
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series = {Request for Comments},
number = 85,
howpublished = {RFC 85},
publisher = {RFC Editor},
doi = {10.17487/RFC0085},
url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc85},
author = {S.D. Crocker},
title = {{Network Working Group meeting}},
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year = 1970,
month = dec,
} RFC text
Network Working Group Steve Crocker
Request for Comments: 85 U.C.L.A.
NIC 5624 28 December 1970
NETWORK WORKING GROUP MEETING.
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In line with the consensus of the Houston Network Working Group meeting
in November, we will hold general Network Working Group meetings
approximately every three months. The Spring and Fall meetings will be
synchronized to the Joint Computer Conferences. The others will be
moved around in order to promote exposure to the various sites and
spread the burden of hosting.
The next meeting is on February 17, 18, 19 at the Illini Union,
University of Illinois. Prospective attendees should contact Phyllis
Ewing, Mike Sher's secretary, by the end of January. She can be reached
at 217-333-0799 or at:
Center for Advanced Computation
162 Engineering Research Laboratory
University of Illinois
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Attendees should plan to arrive sometime on the seventeenth.
This meeting will be a bit more organized the previous meetings and
will include at least a few prepared reports.
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§1Meeting Schedule Established
In late December 1970, Steve Crocker announced the schedule for Network Working Group meetings based on the consensus from the Houston conference in November. Meetings would occur approximately every three months, with the major Spring and Fall meetings synchronized to the Joint Computer Conferences, spreading other meetings around to different sites to promote exposure and distribute the burden of hosting.
The group decided to meet regularly - a big meeting in spring and fall at conferences, and smaller meetings in between at different places.
§2The February 1971 Meeting
The next meeting was scheduled for February 17-19, 1971 at the Illini Union at the University of Illinois. Prospective attendees could contact Phyllis Ewing at the Center for Advanced Computation, arriving on the 17th. This meeting promised to be more organized than previous ones and would include prepared reports from participants, representing a shift from informal discussions to more structured presentations.
People would meet in Illinois in mid-February, and it would be more organized with actual prepared talks instead of just arguing.
§3Coordinating the Network Community
Regular meetings established a formal governance structure for the Network Working Group, moving it beyond ad-hoc discussions. By scheduling meetings at major conferences and rotating locations, the NWG ensured that the growing network community could coordinate on protocol decisions and share implementation experiences. This pattern of scheduled, multi-day meetings became the foundation for how standards bodies like the IETF would later operate.
Having regular meetings at different places helped everyone stay on the same page about how the network should work.