[ih] Fwd: 25th Anniversary!

[Lars Eggert]

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> From: IETF Administrative Director <iad at ietf.org>
> Date: September 26, 2006 4:20:25 PM GMT+02:00
> To: IETF Announcement list <ietf-announce at ietf.org>
> Subject: 25th Anniversary!
>
> It was 25 years ago this month that IP and TCP were formally  
> standardized
> by the publication of RFC 791 and RFC 793.
>
> "Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn are widely credited with the design of  
> TCP/IP,
> and many others involved in the ARPANET project made significant
> contributions," says the Internet Society. "The core of the  
> documents was
> RFC 675, published in December 1974 by Cerf together with co- 
> authors Carl
> Sunshine and Yogen Dalal. The subsequent sequence of documents  
> leading up
> to RFC 791 and 793 benefited from the participation of many people
> including Dave Clark, Jon Postel, Bob Braden, Ray Tomlinson, Bill  
> Plummer,
> and Jim Mathis, as well as other unnamed contributors to the  
> definition
> and implementation of what became the Internet's core protocols."
>
> You can learn more about this seminal achievement at the Internet  
> Society
> web site: http://www.isoc.org/isoc/media/releases/060926pr.shtml.
>
> Many thanks to those who have gone before, those who continue to  
> toil in
> this fruitful vineyard and those who will follow.
>
> All the best,
> Ray Pelletier
> IAD

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