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K-12 Internetworking Guidelines
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group J. Gargano
Request for Comments: 1709 University of California, Davis
FYI: 26 D. Wasley
Category: Informational University of California, Berkeley
November 1994
K-12 Internetworking Guidelines
Status Of This Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
I. Introduction
Many organizations concerned with K-12 educational issues and the
planning for the use of technology recognize the value of data
communications throughout the educational system. State sponsored
documents such as the California Department of Education's "Strategic
Plan for Information Technology" recommend the planning of voice,
video and data networks to support learning and educational
administration, but they do not provide specific technical direction.
The institutions that built the Internet and connected early in its
development are early adopters of technology, with technical staff
dedicated to the planning for and implementation of leading edge
technology. The K-12 community traditionally has not had this level
of staffing available for telecommunications planning. This document
is intended to bridge that gap and provides a recommended technical
direction, an introduction to the role the Internet now plays in K-12
education and technical guidelines for building a campus data
communications infrastructure that provides internetworking services
and connections to the Internet.
For a more general introduction to the Internet and its applications
and uses, the reader is referred to any of the references listed in
the following RFCs:
1392 "Internet Users' Glossary" (also FYI 18)
1432 "Recent Internet Books"
1462 "What is the Internet" (also FYI 20)
1463 "Introducing the Internet - A Short Bibliograpy of
Introductory Internetworking on Readings for the Network
Novice" (also FYI 19)
ISN Working Group