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The initial ARPA network working group met at SRI on October 25-26, 1968.

  • It was generally agreed beforehand that the runmning of interactive programs across the network was the first problem that would be faced.

  • This group, already in agreement about the underlaying notions of a DEL-like approach, set down some terminology, expectations for DEL programs, and lists of proposed semantic capability.

  • At the meeting were Andrews, Baray, Carr, Crocker, Rulifson, and Stoughton.

A second round of meetings was then held in a piecemeal way.

  • Crocker meet with Rulifson at SRI on November 18, 1968. This resulted in the incorporation of formal co-routines.

  • and Stoughton meet with Rulifson at SRI on Decembeer 12, 1968. It was decided to meet again, as a group, probably at UTAH, in late January 1969.

The first public release of this paper was at the BBN NET meeting in Cambridge on February 13, 1969.