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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/2/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">David P. Reed</b> <<a href="mailto:dpreed@reed.com">dpreed@reed.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><br>Since the "origins" (whatever that term might mean) go back to the
<br>"network of networks" ....</div>
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<div>One characteristic it seems most do agree on that is that the Internet is </div>
<div>not a single network but a network of networks or a metasystem.</div>
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<div>Given that characteristic, the nature of the protocol which makes this metasystem</div>
<div>possible is important, and particularly that the protocol that makes the internet</div>
<div>possible is the tcp/ip protocol.</div>
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<div>Knowing something about the process and history of developing this protocol</div>
<div>is something valuable for those who want to understand the nature of the</div>
<div>Internet and how it has developed. </div>
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<div>There are many myths out there. There is a need for accurate history and </div>
<div>understanding of the development.</div>
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<div>The work in progress I have on the development of the tcp/ip protocol is </div>
<div>an effort to have knowledge of the process be available rather than mythology</div>
<div>that one doesn't need to know anything about the internet and its development</div>
<div>or that one can't know anything, etc.</div>
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<div>I have the work in progress online and welcome comments.</div>
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<div>It is online at </div>
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<div><a href="http://umcc.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/birth_tcp.txt">http://umcc.ais.org/~ronda/new.papers/birth_tcp.txt</a></div>
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<div>The title is: </div>
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<div>The Internet: On its International Origins and Collaborative Vision<br> (A Work In Progress)<br> </div>
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<div>Also I have other papers online about the early development of unix, useneet etc</div>
<div>(and these are also in the book that Michael and I co-authored "Netizens: On </div>
<div>the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet" published by the IEEE Computer</div>
<div>Society Press and distributed more recently by Wiley.</div>
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<div>A draft of the book is online at <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/">http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook/</a></div>
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<div>with best wishes</div>
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<div>Ronda</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-- <br>Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet<br><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook">
http://www.columbia.edu/~hauben/netbook</a></blockquote>