RFC-301
by Darius Kazemi, October 28 2019
In 2019 I'm reading one RFC a day in chronological order starting from the very first one. More on this project here. There is a table of contents for all my RFC posts.
IMP Goes Down
RFC-301 is titled “BBN IMP (#5) and NCC Schedule March 4, 1971”. It's authored by Ralph Alter of BBN and dated February 11, 1972.
The technical content
IMP 5 is going “off the air” on the morning of March 4, 1972 for maintenance. The Network Control Center's live support people will be available by telephone during the maintenance window, which will last until the early afternoon. They are doing maintenance on a Saturday to minimize impact on the network.
BBN is also letting the Network Working Group know that after this maintenance, there will be a new Host connected a the Network Control Center at BBN, but it won't be a server available for others on the network to log in to.
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I'm Darius Kazemi. I'm an independent technologist and artist. I do a lot of work on the decentralized web with ActivityPub, including a Node.js reference implementation, an RSS-to-ActivityPub converter, and a fork of Mastodon, called Hometown. You can support my work via my Patreon.