<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Vint:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some of the research results are apparently classified. See, for instance, the following entry for some project and proposal files from 1969:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17618304?q=Advanced%20Research%20Projects%20Agency" class="">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17618304?q=Advanced%20Research%20Projects%20Agency</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And a larger file of project reports from 1959 to 1971</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18252798?q=*:*" class="">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18252798?q=*:*</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both are tagged as restricted access.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note that much of the early ARPANET materials appear to now be available. An agency provided finding aid has been posted:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/rcs/schedules/departments/department-of-defense/defense-agencies/rg-0371/nc1-371-81-01_sf115.pdf" class="">http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/rcs/schedules/departments/department-of-defense/defense-agencies/rg-0371/nc1-371-81-01_sf115.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I worry that some of the most interesting technical materials (e.g. group 875-04 — ARPANET improvement plans) seem to have been designated for destruction. I wonder if they actually were given to NARA instead.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Craig</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 10, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Vint Cerf <<a href="mailto:vint@google.com" class="">vint@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Craig Partridge <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:craig@aland.bbn.com" target="_blank" class="">craig@aland.bbn.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
Unfortunately that material, while at the National Archives, is not yet<br class="">
publicly available (I checked as many ARPANET maps survive only in those<br class="">
reports and I was hoping to access them). Sometime in the future, some<br class="">
historian will mine that material. Of course it could be centuries from<br class="">
now (I'm reminded that many medieval records remain under- or unstudied).<br class=""></blockquote></div><br class="">why would the Archives restrict access to ARPA reports?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">v</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div></div>
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