[ih] History of Network Virtual Terminal (NVT)

[John Day]

I may be wrong, but I thought the NVT idea first 
showed up in the "new" Telnet in mid-72.  I had 
always thought it originated with Alex MacKenzie, 
but he swears it wasn't him.

Take care,
John

At 10:38 -0500 2010/01/22, Vint Cerf wrote:
>this was an idea that emerged from the network working group.
>
>Steve Crocker led that group and might have better answers.
>this was not something that BBN designed - it came from the NWG,
>of course BBN had people involved in the WG. As I recall, Dave
>Walden was a strong proponent of the Do/Don't/Will/Won't idea.
>
>vint
>
>
>On Jan 22, 2010, at 7:33 AM, Matthias Bärwolff wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've been trying to find out about the actual origins of NVT, but cannot
>>find statements other than (1) that a common terminal representation
>>would be good, or (2) that it exists in the shape of NVT. So where does
>>it come from? Did the BBN guys specify it when building the TIPs (which
>>did just that: the character conversion between the local terminal and
>>NVT)? Or did it emerge from the work on Telnet in the NWG?
>>
>>Thanks for all hints.
>>
>>Matthias
>>
>>--
>>Matthias Bärwolff
>>www.bärwolff.de