Subject: LU 6.2 Documentation ...

From: "Chuck Terrien (254-4402)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 94 10:46:14 EST

We're looking for input from APPC implementers who use our "SNA LU 6.2
 Reference:  Peer Protocols" (SC31-6808) to help us maintain or improve
 the quality of that book while we also streamline our production
 process.  We'd like to find out what you like about the book's
 content as well as its style, and what you don't like.

 So please tell us:

      o what information is useful
      o what information isn't useful
      o what should be added
      o where the level of detail is too little or too much
      o how you feel (like, dislike, are indifferent) about the
        various features and presentation techniques used in
        the book:
          - tutorial discussions of concepts and rationale
          - descriptions of individual functions and algorithms
          - layering and node decomposition orientation
          - discussion of message unit semantics
          - use of sequences to define internodal flows
          - use of sequences to define flows between components within
            a node
          - use of FSMs and state-oriented descriptions
          - use of pseudocode vs. text prose and/or sequences to define
            architecture functions
          - treatment of exception conditions
      o timeliness of publication (What simplifications of presentation
        or reduction in detail would you find acceptable to get
        speedier publication of new architecture?)
      o how you use the book
      o how you'd compare the book with other architecture books
        (IBM's or anyone else's) that you've used
          - appropriateness of detail
          - form of presentation for the same level of detail
          - general appeal
      o any other comments about the book you might have

 Please append your comments here or send them directly to Chuck
 Terrien ([email-masked]) by March 7, 1994.

 Thanks,
 Chuck Terrien
 APPC Market Enablement