[chapter-delegates] How about a World Internet Day?
Robert Kahn
rkahn at cnri.reston.va.us
Mon May 23 15:49:56 PDT 2005
Bob,
I'm sure that's all exactly right, but keep in mind that this was almost a
full time job at DARPA for me as well for many weeks.
bob
At 12:31 PM 5/23/2005, Bob Braden wrote:
> *>
> *> 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,
>
>This is all true, of course, but those of us protocol hackers who spent
>our New Year's day 1983 hard at work in the office KNEW when the
>swithover was, and what a milestone it was. The event had been
>orchestrated by Jon; the evidence is still in the RFC series.
>As I recall, Dan Lynch, ops manager at ISI, did not get much sleep on
>Jan 1 or a few days afterwards, as production usage exposed flaws in
>the TCP/IP code on TOPS20 systems at ISI.
>
>So, even though it did not happen instantly, it was a clearly-defined
>event for its participants. I think there was a T shirt around with "I
>survived the ARPAnet/Internet transition -- Jan 1, 1983", or something
>like that.
>
>Bob
>
>
>
> *>
> *> 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
> *>
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