[ih] ARPANet anniversary

[Vint Cerf]

dave, if you want to celebrate packet switching specifically i have no  
problem but I think equating Internet with packet switching is a  
disservice in several dimensions.

I fails to attend to the many packet switched networks that drove the  
need for Internet (TCP/IP) and it also fails to acknowledge that the  
particular form  that packet switching took in TCP/IP allowed for a  
plethora of diverse packet switched networks to be interconnected.  
That would not have happened if we had stayed on the ARPANET, Telenet,  
BBN X.25 path, as Jack Haverty points out.

v

On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote:

>
>
> Noel Chiappa wrote:
>> Call me picky, but I do like to differentiate between 'the  
>> Internet' and 'the
>> global communcation/information catenetwork'. The birth of the  
>> ARPAnet is, I
>> think, the birth of the latter, but to me, not the Internet. (I.e.  
>> the entity
>> which speaks TCP/IP
>
>
> Worthy technical distinctions, and important enhancements, but they  
> do not represent paradigmatic changes, in global, historical terms.
>
> The introduction of packet switching fundamentally changed the  
> economics of wide-area data communication and the original user  
> services (applications) created during the Arpanet have remained in  
> continuous and important operation into today's Internet.
>
> From the perspective of the mass media, it makes far more sense to  
> use this initial demonstration of the Arpanet as the start of the  
> Internet, than does a reliance on TCP/IP.
>
> IMO.
>
> d/
> -- 
>
>  Dave Crocker
>  Brandenburg InternetWorking
>  bbiw.net