[ih] Forwarded with permission: Re: Telnet's NVT

[Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan]

--- Forwarded mail from "Steve Crocker" <steve at stevecrocker.com>

I think there was, in fact, some preliminary implementation of NIL, but
it wasn't completed and the effort was abandoned.  I don't believe it
played any part in subsequent developments, e.g. NVT.  Jeff Rulifson and
Bill Duvall were the key people behind NIL; they're still around and
could be tracked down.  Jeff was at Sun the last time I saw him.

Steve



> -----Original Message-----
> From: vinton g. cerf [mailto:vinton.g.cerf at wcom.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:12 PM
> To: Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan
> Cc: chris at cs.utexas.edu; aca at cs.utexas.edu; Braden at isi.edu; 
> Steve Crocker; kahn at cnri.reston.va.us
> Subject: Re: from your DRS perspective?
> 
> 
> I am not on that list (where is it?)
> 
> Mike Padlipsky is a good source of early info on a lot of this stuff.
> 
> I will try to find you a pointer to him if you don't have it.
> 
> DRS never made it off the page and into programming as far as 
> I know. John Heafner and Eric <something> were early 
> participants at RAND.
> 
> I may have a copy of the DRS paper but sounds like it is 
> already in hand.
> 
> DEL and NIL were paper only but Steve Crocker may be able to 
> shed some light. Bob Braden should be consulted.
> 
> Steve, was Ray Tomlinson involved much in NVT? 
> 
> Bob K, NVT was a critical part of the 1972 demo but I think 
> we must have made quite a bit of progress on it before that 
> since remote, interactive access among the various ARPANET 
> hosts was a very early target application.
> 
> Vint

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