[ih] History of Network Virtual Terminal (NVT)

[Bernie Cosell]

On 22 Jan 2010 at 10:38, Vint Cerf wrote:

> this was an idea that emerged from the network working group.

Indeed, but a lot of the details ended up being done by me and bob 
Clements.  I was implementing the NVT stuff on the TIP [and trying to get 
the @#$%@#$% IBM 2741 to play nice] and Bob was working with the 
corresponding code on TENEX, so since we were just a few offices away we 
could easily try ideas and debug things.

> ... As I recall, Dave
> Walden was a strong proponent of the Do/Don't/Will/Won't idea.

Actually, I did that.  We were playing with the problems of asynchronous 
negotiation and I worked out the details of D/D/W/W on napkins on the 
airplane as dave and I were flying to UCLA for a telnet meeting [at which 
DDWW was presented].

  /Bernie\

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