[ih] Robustness Principle and End-to-End Principle

Craig Partridge craig at tereschau.net
Mon Apr 15 19:53:07 PDT 2024


You might try the IENs (RFC Editor keeps them -- they are the notes the TCP
team published while it was working on TCP).
Craig

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 5:13 PM Barbara Denny via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> I am looking into the history of the Robustness Principle and the
> End-to-End Principle.  I have found 2 significant dates.  One is the
> mention of the Robustness Principle in RFC 761(DoD TCP Spec) dated 1980,
> and the paper dated 1981 by Jerry Seltzer, David Reed, and Dave Clark on
> the End-to-End Principle.  I am trying to go earlier than those dates.
> These principles guided the work in the 70s so I am looking for information
> about that time period (or earlier?) and these principles.  Any thoughts,
> recollections, or references?, including dates/timeframes, greatly
> appreciated.
> barbara
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