[ih] Re: Cluster Addressing and CIDR

Robert Kahn rkahn at cnri.reston.va.us
Mon Jan 20 21:46:17 PST 2003


Vint,

The internetting terminology was in existence as we wrote the tcp paper in 
1973, but the internetting project got on the books formally in 1974, i 
think. I'd have to do a bit of digging to be sure.

bob

At 03:04 AM 1/15/2003 -0500, vinton g. cerf wrote:
>My first recollection of the documented use of the term "Internet" was in 
>RFC 675 the specification of the Internet Transmission Control Protocol.
>
>ARPA called the project "Internetting" starting in 1973, I believe.
>
>Bob Kahn you know that point for sure.
>
>vint
>
>At 02:59 AM 1/15/2003 +0100, J-F C. (Jefsey)  Morfin wrote:
> >PS. Vint, when was the name Internet used for the first time? When you 
> say 'multiple net systems' did  you refer by then to mutiple networks, to 
> multiple technologies or both?
>
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