<div dir="ltr">Noel,<div><br></div><div>RFC 802 was my first RFC! The congestion being discussed was with regard to the ARPANET.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, flow control procedures were included in X.25, which was first published in 1976, although it was obviously in progress well before then.<br>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Noel Chiappa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" target="_blank">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> > From: Detlef Bosau <<a href="mailto:detlef.bosau@web.de">detlef.bosau@web.de</a>><br>
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> When were the terms congestion control and flow control coined?<br>
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</div>'Flow control' (in networking - in communications overall, it goes back even<br>
further) is pretty old: RFC-36 (March 1970) talks about it in close to the<br>
modern sense (although at that point, it was provided by the network, not by<br>
the end-host), so its use in data networks dates back basically to the<br>
beginning.<br>
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'Congestion control' has also been around for a while - see RFC-802 (November<br>
1981), and then Nagle's magnificent RFC-896 (January 1984), where is appears<br>
in pretty much its modern meaning.<br>
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Noel<br>
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