[ih] history of protocol bugs

[Jack Haverty]

In January 1983, the Internet had been operating as a "24x7 service" for 
a year or so.  Vint Cerf was leaving ARPA and Barry Leiner was taking 
over the ARPA Internet projects.   Barry arranged a "Network Management 
Workshop" in January 1983 to bring together a group of people who had 
been working on Internet projects to discuss how to manage the beast we 
had built and gotten some experience in operating and using.

The "Proceedings" of that workshop were unusual - we were asked, after 
the workshop had ended, to each write up short notes on what we thought 
about the state of the Internet and its future.  Much of what we thought 
was wrong - projecting that the Internet might eventually grow to 
contain the unbelievable configuration of 1000 networks for example.  
But those writeups might provide insight into what we were all thinking 
at the time about the technology inside the Internet.

I haven't been able to find those Proceedings anywhere online.   But I 
did find my paper copy in a box in the basement, along with a photograph 
of the group.  It's now been scanned.   Rather than inflict it on this 
mailing list, I've put it online for whoever wants to retrieve it:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cK8Lc22vidgnCxHhyT1qcHmhS82d7xzO/view?usp=sharing

I'm sure there are lots of other historical artifacts, many probably 
only captured in boxes in someone's basement.   The early days of 
networking were, IMHO, quite unusual.   Much of the interaction, 
discussion, and debate that might formerly have been captured in 
journals and learned publications was instead carried out using our 
new-fangled network.   There was no web or massive cloud warehouses 
yet.  So much of that history was only captured in email or other 
ephemeral files accessible through FTP from somewhere else on the net.  
All gone now, except for boxes in basements.

Hope this helps some historians...

Jack Haverty