[ih] BBN Report 2913 (was Re: Need page from paper "Issues in Packet Switching Network Design")

[Matthias Bärwolff]

Hi,

speaking of the 1975 Crowther et al paper referred to by Noel, it might
be of interest to some here that the paper is largely a derivative
version of BBN report 2918 which in turn draws heavily from the much
more copious BBN Report 2913 (Quarterly Technical Report No. 7, 1 July
1974 to 30 September 1974).

I happen to hold a personal copy of said report -- find it at
<http://baerwolff.de/public/BBN-1974-Interface-Message-Processors-for-the-ARPA-Computer-Network--Report-2913--Quarterly-Technical-Report-7.pdf>;
beware though, it's an 18MB sized PDF.

Matthias

On 09/17/2010 02:39 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Hi, all, I was moved by happenstance to look at some old ARPANET papers, and I
> looked for a copy of "Issues in Packet Switching Network Design" (by Crowther,
> Heart, McKenzie, McQuillan, and Walden), which I had never seen, and found a
> copy online, at Archive.Org:
> 
>   http://www.archive.org/details/IssuesInPacketSwitchingNetworkDesign
> 
> In addition to a scanned image (in DejaVu), they had an OCR'd text version
> file, but it hadn't been proofed, so I decided to kill two birds, etc, and
> proof the text version as I read the paper.
> 
> One problem! I got to pg. 173 and discovered it was missing in their DejaVu
> image (and also the OCR'd text version); they had a duplicated pg. 174.
> 
> So, anyone have access to a hardcopy of the paper, who is willing to do
> something like scan that page (200 dpi or so, please) and send the image to
> me? If so, I will finish off the text version, and also get with the
> Archive.Org people and hopefully get their copy fixed.
> 
> 
> BTW, FWIW, IMO it's not that interesting a paper, in terms of the content. As
> far as I know, the two definitive ARPANET papers, in terms of detailed
> technical content, remain the two AFIPS Conference Proceedings papers (June
> 1970 and December 1972). (Oh, for the routing specifically, there are some
> other papers which are the ones to go to - I was talking above xabout the
> ARPANET overall.)
> 
> 	Noel

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