MAIL QSC 1 From: D.MILLER Thu 26-Feb-87 16:38 Reply to: request for credit 2 From: ASE-USA Thu 26-Feb-87 20:26 Reply to: Reply to: request for credit 3 From: A.KELLY Thu 26-Feb-87 22:54 Reply to American Airlines Congress Sponsorsh 4 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 27-Feb-87 10:04 STATUS REQUEST RE TCN419 5 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 27-Feb-87 10:04 STATUS ON DIALCOM EUROPE 6 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 27-Feb-87 10:05 GARRISON/PICKUP OF ASE MATERIALS >MAIL QSC 1 From: R.LOEB Fri 27-Feb-87 10:19 stand by 2 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 27-Feb-87 10:38 DIALCOM APOLOGIES TO SYS MGRS 3 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 27-Feb-87 10:58 ISSUE OF ONLINE SOVIETS >MAIL QSC 1 From: R.LOEB Fri 27-Feb-87 1 1 : 2 1 Reply to: ISSUE OF ONLINE SOVIETS 2 From: ASE-USA Fri 27-Feb-87 14:27 Getting Neri on line 3 From: ASE-USA Fri 27-Feb-87 14:31 MIT stuff 4 From: ASE-USA Fri 27-Feb-87 15:50 teleport 5 From: R.SCHWEICKARTFri 27-Feb-87 16:47 NEWS ON EDELSON Read or Scan: MAIL R NOMORE HARDCO

To: ASE-USA (TCN423) Cc: L.ACTON (TCN409) Cc: E.ACTON (TCN413) Cc: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) From: D.MILLER (TCN003) Delivered: Thu 26-Feb-87 16:38 EST Sys 141 (13) Subject: Reply to: request for credit Mail Id: IPM-141-870226-149720135 In Reply To: IPM-141-870226-141951234 Ted,

We are, as you know, requesting a credit compensation for EVERYONE. But, since they are "considering" it and have not confirmed this to Bob yet, we are sending in your request. FYI - we are definitely now looking into alternate networks. This level of unreliable service has gone on for an unprecedented period and we will not put up with it either, unless there is a DRAMATIC turnaround FAST. Deb

Disposition: d To: D.MILLER (TCN003) Cc: L.ACTON (TCN409) Cc: E.ACTON (TCN413) Cc: ASE USA (TCN423) Cc: R.SCHWEICKART- (TCN443) From: ASE-USA (TCN423) Delivered: Thu 26 Feb-87 20:26 EST Sys 141 (6) Subject: Reply to: Reply to: request for credit- Mail Id: IPM-141-870226-184030595 In Reply To: IPM-141-870226-149720135 I need to get our man in on line, He has talked to the Dialcom licensees down there, and they say connect time is 45 an hour. Dollars. Plus they say he must buy a from them for 600 or 1000 dollars. Let me know asap if you plan to continue w/ dialcom, because we at ase will have to strategize about this situation. Thanks. Ted

Disposition: d To: L.ACTON (TCN409) To: E.ACTON (TCN413) To: J.BARTOE (TCN418) To: E.MITCHELL (TCN422) To: ASE-USA (TCN423) To: B.LICHTENBERG (TCN424) To: T.WANG (TCN425) To: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) Cc: A.KELLY (TCN416) From: A.KELLY (TCN416) Delivered: Thu 26-Feb-87 22:54 EST Sys 141 (19) Subject: Reply to American Airlines Congress Sponsorship/Support Mail Id: IPM-141-870226-206100150 The American Airlines concept intrigues me, but I think it deserves careful consideration, and more important, I think it points to the general commercial value that the ASE Congresses will have. Commercializing the Congress is probably a dirty phrase to most of us, but I think that's what is really happening here. Point is, if American Airlines can get a page in the annual Congress report, then in actuality the ASE has just taken its first dip in the wonderful world of advertising.

I respectfully submit that indeed the Congress can be used to a commercial and financial advantage, and if that is a goal, then some careful thinking and planning should take place that enables the ASE to leverage the Congress in a way that will tastefully enhance the event and not cheapen it. An analog is the policy and approach that was adopted for sponsors of the L.A. Olympics in 1984. No doubt the LA organizing committee wanted sponsors, but it held firm that only companies with direct or peripheral connections to its event could officially associate themselves with the Olympics.

Thoughts? Actions? Advise?

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Deb: 9:44:56 2/ 27/ 1987

Hi there I'm interested in knowing whether or not the instructions I passed on to the Soviets at Innsbruck allowed / encouraged them to clean out their excess files (and reduced storage costs). Could you again look into the TCN419 file system to see if they are still overflowing their mailbox into storage and how much online storage they are carrying? Thanks Deb. Rusty

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Bob: 9:48:11 2/27/ 1987

Howdy. I just wanted to let you know that I (believe I) have gotten through the ARPA mail addressing system and finally gotten a clear channel to Klaus Blank of ESOC in Darmstadt FRG. So, as of today I am ready to begin the technical dialog with him to get our link with Moscow/Sagdeev affected.

How is the Dialcom Europe contact coming? Can you give me the name of a person (and e-mail address?) to contact and/or have contact Klaus Blank? Would help from the Director General of ESA (the European Space Agency) help with Deutsches Bundespost? Walt happens to know him personally and is planning to call him on this in the next couple of days anyway. Thanks for your help Bob. Rusty

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Ted: 9:55:38 2/27/ 1987

I talked with Jim last night and he is happy to carry back the materials for us if we get them to his hotel. He will know on arrival his hotel and will me on Monday morning first thing with hotel, room # and tel #. He can be reached via the US Commercial office (that's Cheryl Dustin.. do yo know of her/it?) at telex 413205 (USCO SU). Jim will check-in daily to see if he has any . As to Gladkov and the materials... I think we can get better service locally on the b&w photo... though probably not a current one. The CRS astro/cosmo book has a photo which came from somewhere here. I suggest that when you make contact with the guy (what's his name?) in Colo Spr re the bio you ask about a photo source. If that doesn't work.« then lets add it to the list for Gladkov. I suggest that we wait for Garrison's poop as well as word from Joel on Feo's paper before you call Gladkov • that way we'll have it 'all' when you place the call. However « *. I need your best tel # for Gladkov at the Inst (and home if you have it) so that, worse comes to worse, Jim can call him. I need to get this to Jim asap so he * 11 have it when he leaves here this afternoon. Thanks for all the other poop /good work, I'll get back later today with more.•Katz, $, etc.

Rusty

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To: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) From: R.LOEB (TCN001) Delivered: Fri 27-Feb-87 10:19 EST Sys 141 (23) Subject: stand by Mail Id: IPM-141-870227-092921163 Am waiting still for contact info and clarification of legal issues. From what I gather the basic concern is that Dialcom feels it can be held liable for anything transmitted over the system in violation of East-West technology transfer laws. I can't understand this myself ... ie., the US Post Office is not liable if someone abuses the mails for pornographic purposes, for example. But apparently the legal issues are more murky in the electronic and international arena. Is there any way that you can provide assurance that the exchanges you have in mind and information going from the US to the Soviets is not in violation of any US laws? In a way, I feel embarrassed by asking that question as I don't believe it's anyone's business but yours. The alternative route is for us not to discuss the application at all and simply set up an id for the Space Center without any particular fan fare. What you then do with it « ••ie, if you take info off some other system and upload it to Dialcom for transmission to the US, or take information from US users and download it in and then put it out over another system elsewhere is simply your business. Let me know what you think?

Bob

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HQ folk: 10:25:37 2/ 27/ 1987

It happens that I got the Dialcom official excuse from Ed Bass of Space Biospheres, who manages their online system » • * so fyi.• « >

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2/ 24/87 SYSTEM 41 STATUS

The purpose of this report is twofold:

1 * To offer you our sincere apologies for the disruption we know must have been caused to your business communications and information by the problems experienced on System 41 in particular this week, and over the last several weeks 2. To supply you with the facts of what happened in detail, so that you can brief your management and users at need.

The problems associated with System 41 have occurred in all three computer critical areas: communications, hardware and software.

In the area of communications, system 41 has had a number of switching problems in Whippany. Since the move there have been start up problems with the new communications facilities, which when fully operational will represent a major improvement in communications reliability. System 41 has had an unusual number of hardware problems. Most recent have been the massive power failure that hit the Washington area on Monday 23rd February and an all day outage on Tuesday caused by a failed primary disk. We have made significant provision to protect against power failures in Rockville but an outage of this magnitude was not anticipated. The disk subsystem is now back in service.

In the software area we have had several problems arising from the upgrade of the system to the new operating environment and mail software. We have worked with you to fix them as they surfaced, and we believe that most of the software problems are behind us at this point in time.

In summary, Dialcom management is totally committed to resolving all of the problems you have experienced. Our Customer Quality Task Group at senior level addresses Dialcom's major service quality issues. System 41 is at the top of the list. We believe the major problems are now behind us.

2/24/87 Harvey Ring Senior Vice President Sales Dialcom, Inc. <

Rusty

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Bob: 10:46:03 2/27/ 1987

Oh Boy••• here we go again! This same issue of sensitivity to Soviets being online happened when Joel Sehatz of SFO went through the identical raindance in EIES (New Jersey Institute of Tech). After long and arduous negotiations with the Dept of Commerce, DOD, et al, the answer finally came down... "(approx) no indeed, it is not against the law, however, we want you to place the following warning/disclaimer online to your users in order to assure they know that these users are here and that classified info is not discussed.11

Which is, as you say, foolish since it is illegal to discuss classified materials online anyway, even when the parties are individually cleared.#. and it is clearly illegal to discuss anything classified with a non-cleared individual. Additionally, anyone can make a long distance international phone call to any of these parties and say anything they want ... similarly with a letter or telex!!

Nevertheless, EIES dutifully put such a statement online back about a year ago and everything proceeded without hitch from there. I can easily put a Dialcom person in touch with the appropriate EIES person, OR I can probably transmit to you online, the actual message EIES put into their system which satisfied the Dept of Commerce.

As to the option of simply setting up a TCN mailbox in Germany..• I don't like it in the sense that it would require someone to "manually" sit as a buffer and transfer messages from one mailbox to the other. We don't have that kind of participation/involvement from the ESOC people, nor do we want it. All we want is to have a pipe connected for our bits... and we can assure anyone that all relavent national security practices will be followed. Please advise how you'd like to go on this. Rusty

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To: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) Cc: W.ROBERTS (TCN402) From: R.LOEB (TCN001) Delivered: Fri 27-Feb-87 11:21 EST Sys 141 (64) Subject: Reply to: ISSUE OF ONLINE SOVIETS Mail Id: IPM-141-870227-102190523 In Reply To: IPM-141-87G227-098830465 Rusty,

I see no problem with the disclaimer and the EIES precedent should go far to satisfy everyone. The issue you raise in the second part of the message is less clear. I thought you had a highspeed line coming in from Moscow to the Space Center. The info was to be taken off this particular line (downloaded) and then uploaded to some system (ours, EIES, telenet, it really doesn't matter from the point of view of the user). Are you now saying that you want that particular line somehow linked directly into Dialcom and athe email system in some way? Might be possible, but not straightforward. Is this the way the EIES link worked? Seems more likely that if the Soviets can make a long distance call into Dialcom in Germany (rather than using the high speed line) then they can access the e-mail system directly just like any other user and there is no need for a middle person to upload and download from a separate line. Please clafify, and thanks. Bob From: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) Delivered: Fri 27-Feb-87 10:58 EST Sys 141 To: R.LOEB (TCN001) Subject: ISSUE OF ONLINE SOVIETS Mail Id: IPM-141-870227-098830465

Bob: 10:46:03 2/ 27/ 1987

Oh Boy * •• here we go again!

This same issue of sensitivity to Soviets being online happened when Joel Schatz of SFO went through the identical raindance in EIES (New Jersey Institute of Tech). After long and arduous negotiations with the Dept of Commerce, DOD, et al, the answer finally came down... ’’(approx) no indeed, it is not against the law, however, we want you to place the following warning/disclaimer online to your users in order to assure they know that these users are here and that classified info is not discussed.” Which is, as you say, foolish since it is illegal to discuss classified materials online anyway, even when the parties are individually cleared•.. and it is clearly illegal to discuss anything classified with a non-cleared individual. Additionally, anyone can make a long distance international phone any call to of these parties and say anything they want *.. similarly with a letter or telex!!

Nevertheless, EIES dutifully put such a statement online back about a year ago and everything proceeded without hitch from there. I can easily put a Dialcom person in touch with the appropriate EIES person, OR I can probably transmit to you online, the actual message EIES put into their system which satisfied the Dept of Commerce. As to the option of simply setting up a TCN mailbox in Germany... I don't like it in the sense that it would require someone to "manually" sit as a buffer and transfer messages from one mailbox to the other. We don't have that kind of participation/involvement from the ESOC people, nor do we want it. All we want is to have a pipe connected for our bits.«. and we can assure anyone that all relavent national security practices will be followed. Please advise how you'd like to go on this.

Rusty

Disposition: d To: N.VESLEY (TCN004) To: L.ACTON (TCN409) To: E.ACTON (TCN413) To: ASE-USA (TCN423) To: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) Cc: D.MILLER (TCN003) From: ASE-USA (TCN423) Delivered: Fri 27-Feb-87 14:27 EST Sys 141 (52) Subject: Getting Neri on line Mail Id: IPM-141-870227-130120368 Dear Nancy,

Assuming for the moment that you are going to continue doing business with Dialcom, how should we go about getting Rodolfo here connected to TCN? Take a look at the following message from Rodolfo. Is there a way for TCN to get Dialcom to get APROA to lend or lease a modem to Rodolfo (who is, after all, Mexico's national space hero) so that we can be in touch with him about planning for the 3rd Planetary Congress of the ASE, a non-money making organization? Also, what about that $45./hour transmission charge? Doesn't that seem a bit high to you? Please advise. Thank you. Ted.

170990 SCTIME

GOOD AFTERNOON•• TELEX FOR MR. TED EVERT•• TED EVERT:

DEAR TED:

I HAVE MADE INQUIRIES REGARDING A CONNECTION WITH TCN, THROUGH APROA, DIALCOM * S LICENSEE IN MEXICO. I THINK I WILL HAVE NO PRO- BLEM IN GETTING A COMPUTER, BUT THE MODEM NEEDS TO BE BOUGHT FROM

APROA, AND ONLY THEM, AND IT COSTS SOMETHING BETWEEN 600 AND 1,000 DOLLARS. TRANSMISSION COSTS ARE 45 DOLLARS PER HOUR. WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE THET YOU INSTRUCT DIALCOM IN SAN FRANCISCO TO ADVISE THEIR

LICENSEE APROA TO GIVE ME OR LEND ME DURING 1987 THE MODEM REQUIRED AND TO MAKE ALL TRANSMISSION CHARGES ON YOUR ACCOUNT? IfM AFRAID - THESE AGREEMENTS WILL HAVE TO BE ON WRITING TO WORK OUT. PROBABLY YOU CAN t BUY DIALCOM A MODEM AND THEY CAN CREDIT THAT - MONEY TO APROA. THE THING IS THAT APROA WOULD HAVE TO GIVE ME ONE OF THEIR ALREADY AVAILABLE , BECAUSE IF WE WERE TO IMPORT IT

I MIGHT GET IT AFTER THE CONGRESS/ BEST REGARDS.

RODOLFO NERI. Disposition: d To: B.LICHTENBERG (TCN424) Cc: ASE-USA (TCN423) Cc: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) From: ASE-USA (TCN423) Delivered: Fri 27-Feb-87 14:31 EST Sys 141 (23) Subject: MIT stuff Mail Id: IPM-141-870227-130741047

Hello Byron,

I have now left a message for Peter Diamandis at Space Fair to go ahead with the Saturday afternoon 4pm slot for you and Dzhanibekov to make your presentation. He said that he was the person juggling your schedule anyway, and that 4pm was best for him. I decided not to push for a morning appearance for you two because a)it would be difficult for him to manage b) there are not a lot of possibilities for money making appearances later in the day elswhere and c)it would be nice for Dhzanibekov to experience some of the space fair.

Peter has said that we do have access to the MIT Museum Friday night from 7pm to 9pm, after their delegate/participant VIP reception. Rusty and I agree that we definitely do want to make some money in that community, since we are going there. Rusty is now going to investigate his connections in the area to see how such a Friday evening event might be organized. If you and Rusty feel that it would be advantageous to directly communicate on this issue, please do so. Copy me so I can keep Katz and Diamandis informed. I hope all is clear. Lots of potential here. Ted

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To: E.MITCHELL (TCN422) Cc: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) From: ASE-USA (TCN423) Delivered: Fri 27-Feb-87 15:50 EST Sys 141 (14) Subject: teleport Mail Id: IPM-141-870227-142560388 Hi Ed,

You now have an account on SF / Moscow Teleport, which is the same system software as Peacenet. The telenet carrier access number is 213 219J, and the system number, like Peacenet, is c 408346. Your teleport account in named EDM and your password is 2bridge. Joel gave you, Rusty and me accounts to practice with in the eventuality that this becomes a means of communicating directly to USA/ , or even the Cosmonauts. I know you do not particularly like the Peacenet system, and this has been Rusty ’s reaction since trying out his Teleport account * We'll see if Joel can get a modem into USA/ Canada, and if so, SFMT might be a possible supplement or alternative to what we have going now. Anyway our accounts are all free, there is no commitment, and we may as well wait to see what Joel can do for us, with USA/Canada's and IAS's cooperation of course. Ted. Disposition: d

To: SSX001 (6007:SSX001) To: DTQ003 Cc: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) From: R.SCHWEICKART (TCN443) Delivered: Fri 27-Feb-87 16:47 EST Sys 141 (30) Subject: NEWS ON EDELSON Mail Id: IPM-141-870227-151190488

Green & Margret: 15:55:47 2/ 27/ 1987

I did some checking on the Burt Edelson departure from NASA HQ. Indeed he is, and it is apparently now public knowledge. It appears that he will be staying on till his replacement is indoctrinated, which will be about 6 April. The new Edelson is Dr. Lennard Fisk, a particle physicist from U of New Hampshire. I also checked on Shelby Tilford. He is on a parallel with Arnauld Nicogosian as the Director of Earth Sciences and Applications Division. I don't think he is particularly suited to the event, certainly not as a substitute for Edelson. Shelby's interest is in understanding/modeling Biosphere I via "earth observations"i » » basically, the old earth or global habitability number. He is not in either life sciences or flight opportunity loops.

Rather, I would recommend that you consider inviting Fisk in place of Edelson, making it clear that he should feel free to have someone of his choosing represent him•• e.g. Jeffrey Rosendahl, his chief scientist, who I understand has an interest in the CELSS work.

Fisk's address is Assoc Admin for Space Sciences, Code E, NASA HQ, DC 20546.

Oh yes Margret •.« I think I told you that I talked with Jim Head at Brown U. He is interested in visiting at some time. . I recommend a standing invitation be sent to him. He does get out that way occassionally. Rusty

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