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Jon Postel became the editor for the new <a href="/ien/ien-index.html">IEN series </a> as well as the long-standing RFC series.</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">There were 204 IENs that were published between March 1977 and September 1982. After that, RFCs became the single document series for all ARPAnet- and Internet-related documents. The experience of maintaining two parallel documents series led Postel in later years to vigorously oppose any attempt to create a new series in addition to RFCs.</p> <ul> <li><a title="ARPANET News 1-24" href="/in-notes/museum/ARPANET_News.mail">ARPANET News 1-24</a> email messages</li> </ul> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">This mail file contains ARPANET NEWS messages 1-24, for the period July 1980 – April 1983. These ARPANET news letters were published by the SRI Network Information Center (NIC) for the US Defense Communication Agency (DCA), which operated the ARPANET at the time. 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Mike wrote the original ping program.</p> <ul> <li><a href="/in-notes/museum/tcp-ip-implementations.txt.1">“TCP/IP Implementations and Vendors Guide”,</a> Anne Sauer and Francine Perillo Eds, Sept 1985.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a title="Internet Monthly Reports (IMRs)" href="/in-notes/museum/imr/">Internet Monthly Reports (IMRs)</a> covering January 1991 to December 1998</li> </ul> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">This series of monthly report on Internet issues was originated by DARPA and NSF, and its publication was funded by DARPA. 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