[ih] Date of RFC 791 for celebration

[John Day]

I don't doubt you, but it is weird because the "other:" INWG was very 
active with many of the same people at the same time.  INWG #96 was 
issued in Feb 78 with authors Cerf, McKenzie, Scantlebury, and 
Zimmermann.

Take care
John

At 22:55 -0500 2006/03/28, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net>
>
>     >> the Internet Working Group (INWG) meeting
>
>     > I thought INWG was IFIP WG6.1 The International Network Working Group.
>     > I am thinking of something else?
>
>Ah, those are two completely different groups (although the acronym is
>confusingly identical).
>
>The "Internet Working Group" was the name given to the group working on
>TCP/IP in the '78 time frame: see, for example, IEN-60, "Boston Area Meeting
>of the Internet Working Group to Discuss Interactions with Gateways"
>(Davidson, 17-Oct-78).
>
>I don't know if INWG was the "official" acronym for that group, but I do
>remember seeing it used to refer to the group that met regularly to work
>on TCP/IP.
>
>	Noel