[ih] Looking for F. Yates and P. Baran paper

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Sun Feb 26 11:09:08 PST 2012


Silly thought, but have you tried picking up a phone and CALLING someone 
at RAND?  I expect there's a corporate library you could start with.

Miles Fidelman

John R. Levine wrote:
>> http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2008/P1995.pdf
>
> That's another copy of P-1995, which refers to the mysterious P-1996.
>
>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:42 AM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>>>> In Paul Baran's paper entitled "Reliable Digital Communications 
>>>> Systems
>>>> Using Unreliable Network Repeater Nodes", published May 27, 1960 as
>>>> P-1995 by RAND, he refers to two other papers.  One in particular is
>>>> co-authored by Frank Yates and Paul Baran entitled "A Non Synchronous
>>>> Digital Data Link Transmission System Using Randomly Surviving Relay
>>>> Points".
>>>
>>> I see the reference, which says it's report P-1996, but P-1996 on the
>>> RAND web site is something unrelated.  Is there anything other than
>>> this reference to suggest that they actually published the paper?
>>>
>>> R's,
>>> John
>>>
>>> P-1995: http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1995.html
>>>
>>> P-1996: http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P1996.html
>>
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
> Dummies",
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