[Cialug] RFC 808

[Jeff Chapin]

I enjoy these 'slices' of the world taken from the 'origin' of the 
internet as we know it. It is always interesting to see the concerns and 
predictions raised in the infancy of the net -- especially when they are 
dead on and still relevant 30 years later (mail servers) or so 
unimportant that it rarely occurs to people (security of mail stored or 
routed through a server).
Jeff

Todd Walton wrote:
> RFC 808 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc808) describes an early meeting
> about email:
>
> "On 10 January 1979 we are holding a meeting at BBN in Cambridge, MA,
> starting at 0930, to discuss Message Service support on the ARPANET.
> The purpose of the meeting is to provide a basis for any
> standardization of efforts which may be necessary.  We will take
> stock of the various message services currently available on the
> ARPANET, discuss problems which have been encountered between
> different message systems, review current protocols and review
> forthcoming developments.  An agenda is given below.  Each of you
> should be prepared to discuss current problems you are aware of and
> any developments which impact future message service."
>
> One portion of the RFC is here:
>
> "There was a discussion of Personal Computers.
>
> "Tom Knight gave a short discription of the Lisp Machine project.
>
> "There was some general discussion of the impact of personal
> computers on mail services.  The main realization being that the
> personal computer will not be available to handle incoming mail
> all the time.  Probably, personal computer users will have their
> mailboxes on some big brother computer (which may be dedicated to
> mailbox service, or be a general purpose host) and poll for their
> mail when they want to read it.  There were some concerns raised
> about accountability and accounting."
>
> I love RFCs.  They're so interesting.
>
> -todd
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