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        FYI 16:
        RFC 1359:

        Title:      Connecting to the Internet
                    What Connecting Institutions Should Anticipate
        Author:     ACM SIGUCCS Networking Taskforce
        Mailbox:    nettf@comet.cit.cornell.edu
        Pages:      25
        Characters: 53,449
        Update/Obsoletes:  none


This FYI RFC outlines the major issues an institution should consider
in the decision and implementation of a campus connection to the
Internet.

In order to provide clarity to the reader, some specific information
has been detailed.  In doing so, the document has been directed toward
U.S.  academic institutions that have not yet connected to the
Internet.

However, the issues for which specific information has been provided
can be generalized for any organization that wishes to participate in
the world-wide Internet community.  It will be necessary for those
organizations to obtain the correct and detailed information from
their local or national IP service providers.  In addition, this
document may be used as an evaluation checklist for organizations that
are currently connected.  Readers are expected to have general
familiarity with networking concepts and terminology.

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Joyce K. Reynolds
USC/Information Sciences Institute