[ih] IETF as a Pentagon thing

[Craig Partridge]

If I remember my history right (and it has been a while), the IETF was
a spinoff of the INARCH task force (chaired by Dave Mills of UDEL), and
the fact that IETF had as its first chair someone from the military did
*not* mean IETF was run by the Pentagon.

What was more interesting was that when the NSFNET community needed a
forum in which to discuss engineering aspects of IP networks, the IETF
(which, like all Internet task forces at the time was a closed group)
decided to open its doors to all comers.  That happened sometime in 1987
as I recall (before the IETF meeting @ NASA Ames in Mountain View).
At about the same time, Corrigan stepped down and Phill Gross became
IETF chair.

Craig

In message <3BC6B0A5.455D98E6 at vlsm.org>, "Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" writes:

>Hello:
>
>I am just curious about the transition of IETF to become 
>an "independent entity" from the USG, especially Pentagon.
>
>As in 1988, in a thread discussing "Running out of Internet 
>addresses?", Vint Cerf (ISI) "informed" Jon Postel (ISI)
>that:
>  "I sure hope so - several IETF working groups are 
>   addressing aspects of this problem. It is conceivable 
>   that a restructuring of the Class C address space, 
>   combined with an area routing strategy might relieve 
>   some of the scaling problems. I don't want to second 
>   guess the IETF teams, though."
>How/what was the IETF in 1988?
>
>Hans-Werner Braun wrote in 1992, 
>  "[...] I remember that I (and may be others) had a bit 
>   of a hard time to convince the IETF to allow the NSFNET 
>   constituents to be represented. It finally resulted 
>   in a small group of people meeting with Mike Corrigan 
>   in the Pentagon to discuss the issue to allow for the 
>   broadening of the INENG/IETF. [...]"
>
>It is not clear when, but I guess it was around 1986-1988.
>
>
>regards,
>
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>Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim - VLSM-TJT - http://rms46.vlsm.org
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