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1. We should mention our previous work on this question
including the Decus paper and our implementation of Arpanet,
our imsss program, and DIAL.

RESEARCH PLAN

	The most general form of the proposal is a program in one
machine sending messages to or interacting with a program in
another machine.  The protocols we will develop will handle human
message as a subcase of this, however taking into account the fact
that the subcase will have most of the applications for a long time
to come.  Moreover, the messages about where to deliver a message
sent by one time-sharing system to another will be handled as a
special sort of message that one program may send another in cases
where the two programs are not written together, but each must
know a certain "public" language.  Thus we will attempt to make
a general format for requests, questions, and assertions suitable
for communication between computer programs.  We will study how
to make this mesh with communication between computer programs
and people.