Jan 25, Thurs 9:30-11:30 ACES 6.336
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Introductions
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Discuss regular meeting time and place
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Please create a course web page with the URL of ...../users/xxx/cs370/index.html
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As part of the course communication, you should write a weekly status report
and link it into your web page by Wed 1p.m. to give me time to review it
before our Thurs a.m. mtg.
(Contents: describe accomplishments, problems that you encountered,
questions, ***your plans for the next week***. Anything that is private
can be emailed to me.)
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History of this project:
*SIGCOMM 99 Tutorial: The
Technical History of the Internet
*Discussion with colleagues;
*Summer 2000 (goals
document, proposed
structure of a network architecture web page, old
taxonomy details, new
taxonomy details by Cynthia)
*Jean-Claude Guedon (U Montreal); Phil Franta (Charles Babbage Institute);
Peter Salus (Matrix.net)
*Fall 2000 Accomplishments
*Where we are and where to go
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By our next meeting please read the following:
* Wizards book (preferred) or technical parts of Abbate's book
* The 4 network architecture web pages: NPL's
Data Network, Arpanet,
Cyclades,
Early
Days of TCP/IP
* The "How it was invented" section at LivingInternet.com
You are currently a good example of the audience of these web pages.
So, please record your impressions (what you like, what you don't, ideas
for the future, impact of original source quotes").
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Write a critique of the above 6 items that you have read. The critique
should discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the following 5 areas:
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presentation,
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navigation,
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how interesting was it (i.e. let's call boring a 0, and very a 10),
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the technical content,
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and finally the writing.
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If time, browse the rest:
* Your copy of the Arpanet Completion Report
* See References 1 and 2 below.
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What's ahead for this semester?
* Collect interesting quotes from original sources and create a "quote
archive" to be used by you or later students.
* Critiquing everyone else's work.
* "XML/Library issues": Content management design, includes looking
at bibtex, CS paper archives, ACM's digital library, Jstor's digital library,
cataloguing by librarians, meeting the digital library expert at UT:
Patricia Galloway?
* Expand significantly the Early days of TCP/IP (use new references,
including IEN5, IEN21, and the 1975 paper)
* Expand the Arpanet web page significantly: now that we have
the Arpanet completion report and the RFQ, and many other documents, each
section needs to come alive: why was this protocol chosen?
(context, motivation, debates, etc...)
* Design of how to present all of this information; in particular how
to navigate. Study hypertext navigation design and other web pages.
Create a prototype to be evaluated by CS356/CS378.
* Some presentations by everyone in the meetings (teach each other)
REFERENCES: