Network Working Group Specification of the Unified User-level Protocol

1. User convenience. As evidenced by the good response to the common editor "neted", the Network Working Group has come to acknowledge the fact that the convenience of non-system programmer users of the Network must be served. Allowing users to invoke the same generic functions -including "batch" jobs -irrespective of which Server Host they happen to be using is surely a compelling initial justification for a common command language. Note that the concern with generic functions -which "all" Servers do, one way or another -is intended to emphasize the common command subset aspects of the language, rather than the "linguistic" elegance of it all. The attempt is to specify an easy way of getting many things done, not a complicated way of getting "everything" done.