From: jsq@tic.com (John Quarterman)
Subject: publications about networks, including the Internet
Originator: riddle@aahsa.tic.com
X-Submissions: eff-austin@tic.com
Organization: Matrix Information and Directory Services
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:52:45 GMT

This is a sampler.  There are plenty of others.
Feel free to post your favorites.

RFCs:

Krol, Ed, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet; RFC 1118, 24 pp.,
Network Information Systems Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA,
September 1989.

Bowers, K.L., LaQuey, T.L., Reynolds, J.K., Roubicek, K., Stahl, M.K.,
and Yuan, A., "FYI on where to start: A bibliography of internetworking
information.," Network Working Group Requests for Comments, no.
RFC1175, 42 pp., Network Information Systems Center, SRI International,
Menlo Park, CA, 1990 August.  FYI 3.

Books:

Quarterman, John S., The Matrix: Computer Networks
and Conferencing Systems Worldwide, Digital Press,
Bedford, MA, 1990.  $50, Digital order number EY-C176E-DP-SS,
Digital Press ISBN 155558-033-5, Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-565607-9. 

LaQuey, Tracy Lynn, Users' Directory of Computer
Networks, Digital Press, Bedford, MA, 1990.
Digital Press ISBN 1-55558-047-5; Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-950262-9

Frey, Donnalyn, and Adams, Rick, !%@:: A Guide to
Electronic Mail Networks and Addressing, O'Reilly
& Associates, Newton, MA, 1991.  $26.95. ISBN 0-937175-39-0.

Internet Resource Guide
NSF Network Service Center (NNSC)
nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net
+1-617-873-3400
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
10 Moulton Street
Cambridge, MA  02138
U.S.A.
$15

Newsletters:

*Matrix News* is a paper and online monthly newsletter
about contextual issues that cross network, political,
and geographical boundaries.

Quarterman, John S., "Which Network, and Why It
Matters," Matrix News, vol. 1, no. 5, p. 8 pages,
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc.
(MIDS), mids@tic.com, Austin, August 1991.

*ConneXions -- The Interoperability Report* is a monthly
newsletter of Interop, Inc., which is the company that
organizes the Interop conferences and vendor exhibits.  It
contains technical articles about protocols, book reviews,
descriptions of networks, and other interesting material.

Interop, Inc.
+1-415-941-3399
480 San Antonio Road, Suite 100
Mountain View, CA  94040
U.S.A.

*Internet Society News* is a membership newsletter of the
Internet Society (ISOC), which is an international
membership organization, formed in January 1992, that
promotes the use of the Internet for research and scholarly
communication and collaboration, and serves as a forum and a
focus for debate, development, and evolution of network
policies, procedures, and technology, as well as advancing
open scholarship in all countries.

isoc@nri.reston.va.us
The Internet Society
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, VA  22091
U.S.A.


A flock of guides to the Internet have just come out or are
being published right now.  Reviews of them are appearing,
e.g., in Matrix News, which has also carried reviews of
other relevant books and publications.  Related information
is available by anonymous FTP from tic.com, under matrix/news/v[12].

Thanks,
John

John S. Quarterman
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS)
jsq@tic.com
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