[ih] History of Network Virtual Terminal (NVT)

[Vint Cerf]

Bernie,

thanks so much for setting this straight - i had not remembered the  
strong extent of the BBN work here.

vint


On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Bernie Cosell wrote:

> 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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