[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?

[Craig Partridge]

Hi Vint:

Some of the research results are apparently classified.  See, for instance, the following entry for some project and proposal files from 1969:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17618304?q=Advanced%20Research%20Projects%20Agency

And a larger file of project reports from 1959 to 1971

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18252798?q=*:*

Both are tagged as restricted access.

Note that much of the early ARPANET materials appear to now be available.  An agency provided finding aid has been posted:

http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/rcs/schedules/departments/department-of-defense/defense-agencies/rg-0371/nc1-371-81-01_sf115.pdf

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.

Thanks!

Craig


> On Aug 10, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com <mailto:craig at aland.bbn.com>> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately that material, while at the National Archives, is not yet
> publicly available (I checked as many ARPANET maps survive only in those
> reports and I was hoping to access them).  Sometime in the future, some
> historian will mine that material.  Of course it could be centuries from
> now (I'm reminded that many medieval records remain under- or unstudied).
> 
> why would the Archives restrict access to ARPA reports?
> 
> v
> 

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