[ih] Installed base momentum (was Re: Design choices in SMTP)

[Vint Cerf]

brian, thanks for mentioning Cailliau; he certainly deserves more
visibility than he has been afforded.

v


On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 4:28 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Thanks Scott.
>
> I'd add international spread as a major feature, and that was strongly
> affected by Larry Landweber (and others) who spread the meme widely in
> academia.
>
> Also:
> "Tim Berners-Lee developed..." is a bit hero-worshippy. Actually, Tim
> Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau developed and propagated the Web. Robert's
> part has been consistently undersold.
>
> For those who don't know it, these crucial points:
>
> • Provided the protocol specifications for free
> • Provided the software for free
> • Did not patent any aspect
>
> were due to those who wrote the CERN Convention in 1953, specifying that
> the results of CERN research must be published:
>
> “The Organization shall have no concern with work for military
> requirements and the results of its experimental and theoretical work shall
> be published or otherwise made generally available.”
>
> To my personal knowledge, Berners-Lee and Cailliau persuaded CERN
> management to allow the WWW release to the public domain on the basis of
> those words. (http://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399)
>
>     Brian
>
>
> On 14-Feb-23 08:50, Scott Bradner via Internet-history wrote:
> > for what its worth - here is my take on some of the reasons that the
> Internet (and specifically
> > TCP/IP) took over the world
> >
> > Forks: Decisions that got us the Internet we have
> > https://www.sobco.com/presentations/2020-06-25-forks.pdf
> >
> > Scott
> > (I, along with Scott Shackelford, have a book on the subject that should
> be published at some
> > point - the text is done & now in publisher wait)
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