To: elliot
bcc: son, liju99, anthonyj, jcochran, b094085c@seflin.org
Subject: Preregistration received.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:55:10 EST
From: elliot


Thanks for preregistering. You'll be added to our mailing list tomorrow -
this is what we've sent out already:

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We've put together a rough outline of when and what the topics will be:

Tuesday   January 13  7:00 pm  Introduction / Overview                elliot
                      8:00 pm  TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)     jhawk
                      9:00 pm  IPv6                                   elliot
Wednesday January 14  7:00 pm  Routing and Addressing                 elliot
                      8:00 pm  Level 2 Networking                     elliot
                      9:00 pm  Internet Engineering                    jhawk
Thursday  January 15  7:00 pm  Utilities                               jhawk
                      8:00 pm  Applications                           elliot
                      9:00 pm  Security                                jhawk

A copy of this is available on the course web page at
http://www.mit.edu/iap/iap-internet.html

I'll be sending out e-mail again later when I've put together a list of
background that might be helpful for each topic (probably in the form of
some concepts it would be helpful if you understood, and some optional 
references for prereading).

Regards,

elliot

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The slides for the first day of the class are now available on the course 
web page (http://www.mit.edu/iap/iap-internet.html). It looks like it will 
be pretty crowded, so please fill in all the desks when you come.
Below is a list of background knowledge that might be useful for the
topics on the first day - don't worry, you can get by without it, but I know
some people might like to get ahead.

Introduction and Overview

  Helpful experience is general background in computer systems (6.001, 6.033,
  etc.

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)

  Having a general understanding of packet-switching networks is useful. 

IPv6

  Understanding the role of IP in a network is helpful, as is any knowledge
  of IPv4. You may want to glance at RFC791, but don't worry about the
  details. RFC1752 has some of the history any politics of IPv6, if you're
  interested in that.

[How to view RFCs:

  On Athena: attach rfc
             more /mit/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt
             (replace XXXX with the number, i.e. 791 or 1752)

  Elsewhere: ftp to ds.internic.net
             cd /rfc
             get rfcXXXX.txt
]

Regards,

elliot