[ih] what is NLS?

[reed at reedmedia.net]

RFC 608 mentions: "NIC designed and maintains a [hosts] source file, in 
NLS format"

What is NLS?

RFC 488 (Mar. 1973) about onsite courses about using NLS over the 
Network, retrieval of journal items, and using the NIC with "LOCATOR" 
and "NIC/QUERY", and NLS control characters

RFC 543 (Jul 1973) mentions NLS Journal System, NLS Submit Message, an 
origin statement, FTP has XNLS command to convert NLS to sequential 
form, Ident System, mails transformed to NLS files with unique catalog 
numbers, 

RFC 580 (Oct. 1973) suggests that proposed protocols be submitted as nls 
files.

RFC 674 (Dec. 1974) indicates that NIC 31484 is document 
<GJOURNAL>31484.NLS  and mentioned documents in <NLS> directory.

RFC 694 (June 1975) mentions several documents in <NLS> directory.

IEN149/RFC765 (June 1980) mentions NLS

What is NLS?

Are NIC document numbers same as NLS unique catalog numbers?

What is the header information at top of 
https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc674.txt ? Is that related to NLS?

Thanks,

  Jeremy C. Reed

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