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Network Working Group J.
Request for Comments: 1432
March 1993

Recent Internet

Status of this

This memo provides information for the Internet community. It
not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo
unlimited

This article originally appeared in Volume 2 Number 12, (
1992) of Matrix News, the monthly newsletter of Matrix
and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS).

1. Which

Here is a list of books related to using the Internet, which is
global and exponentially growing network of more than a
computers that communicate by interactive use of the TCP/
protocols, for the use of millions of users. This article
prompted by the recent publication of nine or ten books on
Internet in the space of a year (some are so new they aren't
published yet). I have also included some books that have
around for quite a long time (as long ago as the dim past of 1984).
I think all of them contain useful information for people new to
Internet

Some of the books included here are about more than the Internet
Some of them are about the Matrix, which is the set of all
networks worldwide that exchange electronic mail. The
includes FidoNet, UUCP, BITNET, USENET, the Internet, and
others, but is not limited to any one of those networks.
particular bibliographic collection is oriented around the
computer network in the world, the Internet, because of all
recent books about that network. Matrix News continues to
information about the Matrix, including but not limited to
Internet

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Author Pp. Price Audience Type

LaQuey & Ryer 208 $10.95 public user guide
Kehoe 112 $22 technical user guide
Krol 376 $24.95 researchers guide, catalog
Kochmer 450 $39.95 researchers guide, catalog
Marine, et al. 380 $39 administrative contacts,

Dern ? ? new users user guide
Lane & 200 $37.50 information primer ?
Summerhill

Malamud 376 $26.95 varied travelog

Quarterman & 448 $42.50 varied standards

Lynch, Rose 822 $40 technical standards

Tennant, et al. 142 $45 professionals textbook ?
Benedikt 444 $15.95 varied anthology
Kahin 446 $34.95 faculty scholarly
Parkhurst 86 $10.50 librarians scholarly
McClure, et al. 746 $45 varied scholarly

Levy 473 $4.95 public history
Raymond 453 $10.95 varied dictionary
Stoll 332 $19.95 public spy story
Hafner & 368 $22.95 public journalism

Denning 574 $23.95 public scholarly
Sterling 352 $23 public documentary

IRG 240 $15 technical catalog
NorthWestNet 297 $20 technical catalog

Frey & Adams 436 $26.95 varied desk ref.
LaQuey (UDCN) 645 $34.95 varied directory
Quarterman 746 $50 varied context

Table 1. Network Books

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I have excluded from this article books that are solely
technical aspects of technology, such as the TCP/IP protocols
Instead, I have included books about the resources and users of
Internet. I have grouped them in rough classifications
convenience of presentation. Several of these books fit
classifications. For that reason and others, the
should be taken as illustrative, not definitive. Table 1
some features of all the books described

Thanks to various people for input; especially David Bridge. Much
the detailed bibliographic information came from the Library
Congress catalog server supported by Digital Research Associates
Inc., accessed via gopher and Telnet over the Internet

Please note that prices may change, as may electronic mail addresses
telephone and fax numbers, and postal addresses. The price you pay
in particular, may be less because of a discount, or more because
shipping, or because you buy the book outside of the United States
The information included here is accurate to the best of
knowledge, but your mileage may vary. Use at your own risk.
please do report errors, changes, and additions to mids@tic.com

Some bibliographic citations end in a line of the

domain.name:path/

This means you can retrieve further information by connecting
domain.name with FTP, logging in as user anonymous, using
electronic mail address as a password, and changing to path/name as
directory, or retrieving it as a file, whichever works

Some citations end in a line of the

local@

This is a domain address for further email inquiries

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2.

New user guides and information on getting connected fill most of
new books about the Internet

LaQuey & Ryer

Tracy LaQuey, and Jeanne C. Ryer, The
Companion: A Beginner's Guide to
Networking, p. 208, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA
October 1992.
$10.95. ISBN 0-201-62224-6.
Book Review: Internet Society News, 1(3):34.
Summer 1992.
Book Review: Link Letter, 5(3):4. Nov. 1992.
Book Review: Matrix News, 2(9):8-9. Sept. 1992.
companion@world.std.

This is the least expensive introductory guide for new users
the Internet, and perhaps the only one aimed at the
public. It is also being made available online by anonymous
from world.std.com, two chapters a month

Kehoe

Brendan P. Kehoe, Zen and the Art of the Internet
A Beginner's Guide, p. 112, Prentice-Hall
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 1992.
$22.00. ISBN 0-13-010778-6.
Book Review: Link Letter, 5(3):3. Nov. 1992.
Book Review: MicroTimes, 102:3, Nov. 23, 1992.
simsc.si.edu:networks/zen.

The first edition of this book was and is available only online
from various anonymous FTP servers. This second edition
somewhat enlarged and updated, yet is still the
introductory Internet book

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Krol

Ed Krol, The Whole Internet User's Guide &
Catalog, p. 376, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.,
Sebastopol, CA, 13 September 1992.
$24.95. ISBN 1-56592-025-2.
Book Review: Internet Society News, 1(3):33.
Summer 1992.
Book Review: Link Letter, 5(3):3. Nov. 1992.
Book Review: Matrix News, 2(11). Nov. 1992.
Book Review: MicroTimes, 102:3, Nov. 23, 1992.

Perhaps the most ambitious of the new crop of books, this one
both a user's guide and a catalog of resources in one. It
aimed at graduate students who want to use the Internet
research

Kochmer

Jonathan Kochmer, and NorthWestNet, The
Passport: NorthWestNet's Guide to Our
Online, 4th ed., p. 450, NorthWestNet, Bellevue
WA, 1993.
$39.95. ISBN 0-9635281-0-6.
info@nwnet.

A forthcoming guide and catalog, not yet seen. It
paradoxically both the fourth edition of and the successor to
other NorthWestNet book listed later

Marine

April Marine, ed., Internet: Getting Started, p
380, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA,
1992.
$39.00. ISBN [none].
Book Review: Internet Society News, 1(3):33.
Summer 1992.
Book Review: Link Letter, 5(3):4. Nov. 1992.
Book Review: Matrix News, 2(12). Dec. 1992.
ftp.nisc.sri.com:netinfo/internet-getting
started-

How to join the Internet, and some context so you will know why
This book is not a guide, and not a catalog, but it does
numerous contact listings

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Dern

Daniel P. Dern, The New User's Guide to
Internet, McGraw-Hill, New York, forthcoming
1993. ISBN 0-07-016510-6 (hc). ISBN 0-07-16511-4
(pbk).

A forthcoming new user guide, not yet seen

Lane & Summerhill

Elizabeth S. Lane, and Craig A. Summerhill,
Internet Primer for Information Professionals:
Basic Guide to Networking Technology, p. 200,
Meckler Corp., Westport, CT, forthcoming in 1992.
$37.50. ISBN 0-88736-831-X

This book, not yet seen, is apparently aimed at
professionals, presumably meaning librarians and others

3.

This category has only one book in it so far

Malamud

Carl Malamud, Exploring the Internet: A
Travelogue, p. 376, Prentice-Hall,
Cliffs, NJ, August 1992.
$26.95. ISBN 0-13-296898-3.
Book Review: Internet Society News, 1(3):34.
Summer 1992.
Book Review: Network Computing, 3(11):46.
15, 1992.
Book Review: Matrix News, 2(9):9,11. Sept. 1992.

Many fine lunches and dinners with users, administrators,
developers of the Internet in many countries around the world
with accurate technical background. Certainly the most
funny of all the books about the Internet. Contains a
about how and why ITU and ISO do not publish their
online

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4.

The seemingly obscure topic of standards is actually
when the subject is Internet Standards, because the processes
produce them reflect how the whole network works: by the efforts
its users and engineers

Quarterman & Wilhelm

John S. Quarterman, and Susanne Wilhelm, UNIX
POSIX, and Open Systems: The Open
Puzzle, p. 446, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1993.
$42.50. ISBN 0-201-52772-3.
Book Review: Internet Society News, 1(3):34.
Summer 1992.

Context about open systems standards. Includes a very
history of the Internet, comments on the effects of networks
standards and the reverse, commentary on the benefits
publishing standards online, and an in-depth examination of
IETF standards process used to produce Internet Standards.
includes an Internet growth graph

Lynch & Rose

Daniel C. Lynch and Marshall T. Rose, eds.,
Internet System Handbook, p. 822, Addison-Wesley
Reading, MA, 1993. $40, ISBN 0-201-56741-5.

A description of the process that produces Internet Standards,
some other user level material in addition to protocol material

5.

This category includes a textbook on using the Internet, and
other books that could be used as textbooks for sociology or policy

Tennant

Roy Tennant, John Ober, Anne G. Lipow,
Foreword by Clifford Lynch, Crossing the
Threshold: an Instructional Handbook, p. 142
pages, 1993.
$45.00. ISBN 1-882208-01-3.
simsc.si.edu:networks/crossing.

A short textbook on using the Internet, by two librarians at
University of California at Berkeley

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Benedikt

Michael Benedikt, ed., Cyberspace: First Steps, p
444, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991. $15.95.
0-262-02327-X

An anthology of sociological examinations of networks and
topics, by writers, scholars, and public figures. Edited by
professor of Architecture at the University of Texas

Kahin

Brian Kahin, ed., Building
Infrastructure: Issues in the Development of
National Research and Education Network, p. 446,
McGraw-Hill Primis, New York, 1992.
$34.95, ISBN: 0-390-03083-X
Book Review: Matrix News, 2(5). May 1992.

Includes the entire text of the High Performance Computing
(HPCA) of 1991 that authorized the forthcoming National
and Education Network (NREN), as well as numerous examinations
what it does and should mean. Papers from a workshop at Harvard'
Kennedy School of Government. Tough sledding in spots, but
rewarding in others

Parkhurst

Carol A. Parkhurst, ed., Library Perspectives
NREN: The National Research and Education Network
p. 86, LITA, Chicago, 1990.
$10.50. ISBN 0-8389-7477-5.
Book Review: Matrix News, 1(7). Oct. 1991.

Another NREN policy anthology; this one oriented towards
uses

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McClure

Charles McClure, Ann Bishop, Philip Doty,
Howard Rosenbaum, The National Research
Education Network (NREN): Research and
Perspectives, p. 746, Ablex Press, Norwood, NJ
1991.
$45 personal; $95 institutional.
0-89391-813-X. Book Review: Matrix News, 1(6).
Sep. 1991.
Book Review: Electronic Networking: Research
Applications and Policy 2(1). Spring 1992.

Masses of information on NREN, and examination of its
effects on research

6. Hacking and

Hacking is skillful programming. Cracking is breaking and entering
If you don't know the difference, read the first two books below.
you don't think it matters, read the last book below, which
how law enforcement agencies confused about computers and
did some very strange things

Levy

Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the
Revolution, p. 473, Anchor Press/Doubleday,
City, NY, 1984. $17.95. ISBN 0-385-19195-2 (hc).
$4.95 ISBN 0-440-13405-6 (pbk).

Tales of the real hackers who invented the modern
industry. Some of these people are still quite active on the
today

Raymond & Steele

Eric S. Raymond, ed., Guy Steele, The New Hacker'
Dictionary, p. 453, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
1991. ISBN 0-262-18145-2 (hc). $10.95
0-262-68069-6 (pbk).

The authority on hacker jargon, and a very amusing book. Look
up in here when you doubt a definition in the press

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Stoll

Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a
Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, p. 332,
Doubleday, New York, 1989. $19.95.
0-385-24946-2 (alk. paper).

A spy novel, except it's true: a first person account by a down
on-his-luck Berkeley astronomer who with others tracked down a
network spy. Despite its necessary concentration on cracking
still a readable introduction to what the Internet is about

Hafner & Markoff

Katie Hafner, and John Markoff, Cyberpunk, p. 368,
Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991. $22.95.
0-671-68322-5.

Interviews with some of the crackers who have
conspicuously in the press in the past few years. One of the co
authors is the New York Times reporter who broke the Stoll
to the public

Denning

Peter J. Denning, ed., Computers Under Attack
Intruders, Worms, and Viruses, p. 574,
Press/Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990. $23.95,
ISBN 0-201-53067-8.

Details of celebrated network security cases, including
described in the previous two books. Includes Stoll's
article about the Wiley Hacker, and responses and articles
others on the same subject. Has extensive coverage of the 1988
Internet Worm. Also includes information on viruses. Has quite
bit of material on the cultures of the networks, and on social
legal, and ethical matters. Starts with the standard
network papers, including "Notable Computer Networks"
Quarterman and Hoskins

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Sterling

Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown: Law
Disorder on the electronic frontier, p. 352,
Bantam, New York, 1992. $23. ISBN 0-553-08058-X

An in-depth examination of the forces of law who try to deal
computer crime, and of the issues involved, written by one of
science fiction writers who invented cyberpunk. The real
behind Operation Sundevil and the Legion of Doom. Readable
informative, amusing, and necessary

7. Resource

These have always been available online

NorthWestNet

NorthWestNet, NorthWestNet User Services
Resource Guide, p. 297, NorthWestNet, Bellevue
WA, 1992.
$20. ISBN [none]. Book Review: Matrix News, 2(1).
Jan. 1992.
ftphost.nwnet.net:nic/nwnet/user
guide/README.

NorthWestNet's Resource Guide

IRG

NNSC, Internet Resource Guide, p. 240, NSF
Service Center (NNSC), BBN, Cambridge, MA, 1991.
$15. ISBN [none].
nnsc.nsf.net:resource-guide/README

The original Internet Resource Guide

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8. Also About Other

The network service most people use is electronic mail, which
carried over many networks other than the Internet, throughout
worldwide Matrix of interconnected computer networks that
mail. These are books about networks that cover more networks
the Internet alone

Frey & Adams

Donnalyn Frey, and Rick Adams, !%@: A Directory
Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks, p. 436,
O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA,
1991. $26.95. ISBN 0-937-17515-3 (pbk.).

A quick desk reference to many networks, with two pages on
one

LaQuey (UDCN):

Tracy Lynn LaQuey, Users' Directory of
Networks, p. 645, Digital Press, Bedford, MA
1989. $34.95 Digital Part Number EY-C200E-DP
Digital Press ISBN 1-555-58047-5; Prentice-
ISBN 0-13-950262-9.

A directory of users, domains, etc. of the Internet, BITNET, UUCP
etc

Quarterman

John S. Quarterman, The Matrix: Computer
and Conferencing Systems Worldwide, p. 746,
Digital Press, Bedford, MA, 1990. $50.
order number EY-C176E-DP-SS, Digital Press
155558-033-5, Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-565607-9.

A context book about all computer networks worldwide,
UUCP, FidoNet, BITNET, USENET, and the Internet. The longest
all the books listed, and the most comprehensive

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9.

These are in alphabetical order. Most of the telephone and
numbers are only for orders, not for other kinds of communications

Ablex Publishing Corp. Doubleday, a division
201-767-8450 Bantam Doubleday
fax: 201-767-6717 Publishing Group, Inc
355 Chestnut St. 212-765-6500
Norwood, NJ 07648 800-223-6834
fax: 212-765-3869
666 Fifth
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. New York, NY 10103
74230.3622@CompuServe.
617-944-3700
800-447-2226 Library Solution
1 Jacob Way 510-841-2636
Reading, MA 01867 fax: 415-594-0411
1100 Industrial Road, Suite 9
San Carlos, CA 94070
Bantam, a division
Bantam Doubleday
Publishing Group Inc. LITA
212-765-6500 ALANET ALA0085
800-223-6834 800-545-2433
fax: 212-765-3869 312-280-4270
666 Fifth Avenue fax: + 312-440-9374
New York, NY 10103 50 East Huron
Chicago, IL 60602

Digital
buddenhagen@cecv01.enet.dec.com McGraw-
617-276-1498 212-512-2000
fax: 617-276-4314 1221 Ave. of the
Digital Equipment Corporation New York, NY 10020
12 Crosby Drive BUO/E94
Bedford, MA 01730

Meckler Corporation Simon &
(203) 226-6967 212-698-7000
Fax: (203) 545-5840 800-223-2336
11 Ferry Lane West fax: 212-698-7007
Westport, CT 06880 Subsidiary
Paramount Communications Inc
the Simon & Schuster Bldg
1230 Ave. of the
New York, NY 10020

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SRI
MIT Press nisc@nisc.sri.
Massachusetts Institute 415-859-6387
of Technology 415-859-6387
Cambridge, MA 02142 fax: 415-859-6028
Network Information
NorthWestNet
nusirg-orders@nwnet.net 333 Ravenswood Avenue
206-562-3000 Room EJ29
fax: 206-562-4822 Menlo Park, CA 9402

NUSIRG
15400 SE 30th Place, Suite 202
Bellevue, WA 98007

NSFNET Network Service
nnsc@nnsc.nsf.
617-873-3400
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc
10 Moulton
Cambridge, MA 02138

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc
nuts@ora.
707-829-0515
800-998-9938 7am to 5pm
fax: 707-829-0104
103 Morris Street, Suite
Sebastopol, CA 95472

Prentice-
info@prenhall.
515-284-6751
fax: 515-284-2607
Route 9
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

Security

Security issues are not discussed in this memo

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Author's

John S.
Matrix Information and Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS
1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 500
Austin, TX 78723
U.S.A

EMail: jsq@tic.
Phone: +1-512-451-7602
Fax: +1-512-450-1436

For further information on MIDS, contact

Matrix
Matrix Information & Directory Services, Inc. (MIDS
1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 500
Austin, TX 78723
U.S.A

EMail: mids@tic.
Phone: +1-512-451-7602
Fax: +1-512-450-1436

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