The ARPA Network Design Decisions

The work

AuthorsJohn M. McQuillan; David C. Walden
Editors
Typearticle
Year1977
Also known asmcquillan1977arpab
Citekeymcquillan1977arpa

Where it appeared

Published inComputer Networks
PublisherNorth-Holland Publishing Company
Volume1
Issue5
Pages243--289

Settled

AbstractNo abstract is printed on the paper. Leaf 1 of the copy carries the title, the authors' Bolt Beranek and Newman affiliation, a summary paragraph in the left column and a Preface in the right, then straight into section 1 -- Computer Networks in 1977 did not require a separate abstract block, and the journal printed none. The summary paragraph could be harvested as one, and I have not: it is the article's own opening prose, not a statement offered as an abstract, and the corpus distinguishes those. Empty on purpose; the paper's own framing is recorded in a note here.

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Cite it as

@article{mcquillan1977arpa,
  title        = {The ARPA Network Design Decisions},
  author       = {John M. McQuillan and David C. Walden},
  year         = {1977},
  journal      = {Computer Networks},
  publisher    = {North-Holland Publishing Company},
  volume       = {1},
  number       = {5},
  pages        = {243--289},
  doi          = {10.1016/0376-5075(77)90014-9},
}

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