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	*'''[http://~~www~~.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/fall2008/kahn1972-resource.pdf Robert E. Kahn, "Resource-Sharing Computer Communications Networks" (1972)]:'''		*'''[http://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/fall2008/kahn1972-resource.pdf Robert E. Kahn, "Resource-Sharing Computer Communications Networks" (1972)]:'''

	This is one of the early papers describing the rationale behind the		This is one of the early papers describing the rationale behind the

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==Readings==

*'''[http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/distos/fall2008/kahn1972-resource.pdf Robert E. Kahn, "Resource-Sharing Computer Communications Networks" (1972)]:'''

This is one of the early papers describing the rationale behind the
ARPANET (which later evolved into the Internet). For more
background on the ARPANET, see [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4989933629762859961 Computer Networks - The Heralds of Resource Sharing] (optional).

Note how both the ARPANET and and standard operating systems were
developed to facilitate resource sharing.

==Questions to be discussed==

# What did the (technical) world look like when this paper was published?
# What is the paper about? What are the key ideas?
# What is the basic argument of the paper, and what sort of evidence is used to make the argument?
# To what extent do you "believe" the argument? Why?
# What did the authors get right about the future? What did they miss about the future?
# What has been forgotten since this paper?