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Distributed resources workshop announcement
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Network Working Group Bob Thomas
RFC # 504 BBN
NIC # 16155 April 30, 1973
Workshop Announcement
Title: Automated Resource Sharing on the ARPANET
Date: Monday May 21, 1973
Time: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Place: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Mass.
Hosts: TENEX and TIP Groups at BBN
Theme:
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This workshop will focus on various aspects of the question:
What steps can be taken to automate access to the distributed
resources on the ARPANET?
In particular, how can we move from where we are today toward an
environment which facilitates resource sharing by moving the burden of
dealing with the network from the human user to processes which act on
his behalf? Additionally, operating systems themselves perform various
operations not directly initiated by human users which could better be
performed with the availability of resources on other systems (e.g.
file system backup); how can we move toward an environment which
facilitates such system-system cooperation?
Objectives of Workshop:
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1. To identify and clarify the issues raised by automated resource
sharing.
What are the obstacles preventing more widespread resource sharing
on the ARPANET? Are they technical, political, administrative in
nature? Is it that there are few resources worth sharing (we don't
think so)? Is automated sharing a bad idea (We don't think so)?
Thomas