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From: J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft)
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Subject: Network Temperature Protocol
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Date: 20 Jul 90 14:19:16 GMT
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Background.

As you may know, the UK has been undergoing nothing but a heatwave the 
last few days.

Motivation.

As part of a distributed computing experiment, we are considering
setting up a Sun workstation, with a bi-metallic strip and small coil
tempearture device, and providing a network wide reading, combined
with time of day service and cartesian location data.

Deliverable.

The intent is to deploy such a service across the Internet as a way of
detecting optimal vacation sites over the coming years of weather
disruption whilst conventional forecast techniques may not suffice.

An rfc (request for centigrade) may be forthcoming shortly.

 jon

(but seriously ... :-)