[chapter-delegates] How about a World Internet Day?

[Robert Kahn]

Bob,

Actually, to follow the analogy a bit further, the birth may have started 
on 1/1/83, but (depending on your definition of birth) it was a ten year 
gestation period and the birth was not really over until either a few weeks 
or a few months after january 1st. By mid february, 1983 we had about 80% 
of the ARPANET hosts converted from NCP to TCP, and a lot of new LAN based 
"workstation hosts" that used only tcp and not the arpanet host protocol; 
there were also some longer term stragglers on the ARPANET that did not 
take the january date seriously. In reality, I don't think much happened on 
that new years day, and we decided to keep both NCP and TCP protocols 
running in parallel for at least six months to insure continued 
connectivity for everyone.

bob

At 08:13 PM 5/20/2005, Bob Braden wrote:



>>There are many milestones so I think an attempt to celebrate a birthday 
>>is hard.
>>For Internet one might reasonably pick 1/1/1983 as the date the system 
>>was deployed on all of the networks supported by DARPA.
>>[cut]
>
>For those of us involved with making the Internet happen, I expect that 
>Jan 1, 1983 is the true birth of the Internet as a
>network of networks using TCP/IP, and operational as  opposed to experimental.
>
>Bob Braden