[ih] That Host-Host Protocol Document No. 1

[Vint Cerf]

RFC 1 was written to establish the series. We thrashed around with a  
number of ideas in the late 1969 and early 1970 period. NIL, DEL, and  
eventually the H-H protocol. Steve Crocker led that effort and is  
surely the expert on events of the day.

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On Aug 7, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Matthias Bärwolff wrote:

> Thanks for the hint. But actually I was under strong impression that  
> RFC
> 1 was just that: a request for comments with more questions and  
> problem
> statements than bold proposals; and the first go at really  
> specifying a
> generic host-host protocol happened some time in 1970 rather than  
> early
> 1969 (when the BBN 1822 report was not even out yet). I took it that  
> the
> references and discussion in RFC 65 are about this document (which is
> therein referred to as Host-Host Protocol Document No. 1; and this  
> term
> is referred to in various other accounts at the time, too, so I was  
> just
> curious as to what exactly that document was; I frankly doubt it's RFC
> 1). (I may go and ask Dave Walden or Steve Crocker directly on this.)
>
> Randy Bush wrote:
>> 	http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1.txt
>>
>
> -- 
> Matthias Bärwolff
> www.bärwolff.de
>