<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_9910"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10042">Dave,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_9916"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10043" dir="ltr"><span class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10039">See my article published in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, </span>Vol 33, No 1, pp 66-71, titled "INWG and the Conception of the Internet". A very slightly corrected version is available online at</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10148" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10155" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10172" href="http://alexmckenzie.weebly.com/inwg-and-the-conception-of-the-internet-an-eyewitness-account.html">http://alexmckenzie.weebly.com/inwg-and-the-conception-of-the-internet-an-eyewitness-account.html</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10247" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10242" dir="ltr">Cheers,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10243" dir="ltr">Alex<br class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10041"></div><br> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10046" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10045" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10044" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10082" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Alex McKenzie <amckenzie3@yahoo.com>; Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>; "internet-history@postel.org" <internet-history@postel.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, September 16, 2015 12:39 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ih] Significant milestones in the history of TCP/IP<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1442418079391_10244" class="y_msg_container"><br>On 9/16/2015 6:12 AM, Alex McKenzie wrote:<br clear="none">> Whether anything about the ARPAnet had much to do with the history of<br clear="none">> TCP/IP is a different question, but if people think the answer to that<br clear="none">> question is "yes" then probably both Baran and Davies also belong in the<br clear="none">> story.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">the history of Internet technologies is best viewed as a continuum, IMO.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">that said, for the current exercise, i'm interested in limiting the<br clear="none">scope to the history of major tcp/ip milestones.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">by way of marking a starting point for discussion, the anecdotal summary<br clear="none">i heard a long time ago was that first discussions on internetworking<br clear="none">were held during the arpanet public demonstration, at the first iccc in<br clear="none">1972.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">i'm not inclined to count that as a 'milestone' but would think that<br clear="none">circulation of the first tcp design would count as the beginning marker<br clear="none">for this timeline.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">but that's just my own perspective, and as i said, this is intended to<br clear="none">be a community (rough consensus) effort.<div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt5482869852" id="yqtfd80965"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">d/</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Dave Crocker<br clear="none">Brandenburg InternetWorking<br clear="none">bbiw.net<div class="yqt5482869852" id="yqtfd48966"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>