[ih] UDP creation (Was: Date of RFC 791 for celebration)

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Stephen Casner <casner at acm.org>

    >> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Jack Haverty wrote:

    >> I wonder when UDP came into being (i.e., implementation, not
    >> specification) to define a way of accessing that IP datagram
    >> functionality.   I remember it happening at some meeting (was
    >> almost a no-brainer), but can't remember when.

    > I remember this being a meeting at ISI, but I couldn't name a date.

Hmm, I seem to recall actually being there for that one, because I seem to
recall the details of UDP being hashed out at a meeting, shortly after which
Dave Reed did the spec. I think it must have been the first ISI meeting I was
at - I wish I could say which one that was! (I seem to recall my first ISI
meeting was a late-fall or winter meeting...)

Looking at the IEN list, the UDP spec is:

  71  Reed  21-Jan-79  User Datagram Protocol

So, assuming that the meeting at which that happened was slightly before
then, and looking at the list of meeting minutes dates in the fall of 1978 in
the IEN Index, I think it was likely either the 18-19 September TCP meeting,
the 30-31 October Internet meeting, or the 4 December TCP meeting - can any
confirm that one of those meetings was at ISI?

(And I wish we had an accurate list of the meeting dates/locations! One more
thing to try and crank out sometime...)

	Noel