[ih] IEN Notes and INWG

[Matthias Bärwolff]

Without wanting to go into excessive detail, up until TCP-1 (RFC 675,
Dec 1974) the work on TCP seems to have been "part" of INWG, and by
TCP-2 (IEN 5, Mar 1977) the work had been split from INWG (and the whole
IFIP, CCITT attendant connotation) and moved to ARPA (as Vint has
indicated), once the final common proposal along the Pouzin TS lines
(INWG 96, "Proposal for an international end to end protocol", Jul 1975)
turned out to go nowhere given (1) CCITT's decision to go with X.25

I wonder: when exactly did ARPA make the strategical decision to push
ahead with TCP? Was there any thought of sticking with INWG and try
implementing their stuff?

And, what was first, INWG approaching ISO, or ARPA deciding to go with TCP?

(Pardon if I am being lazy, those questions must have been answered a
thousand times already, I take it. Thanks for the additional clarification.)

Matthias

Vint Cerf wrote:
> inwg notes were a distinct series. IENs were produced by the DARPA contracts
> while INWG was a volunteer activity that eventually become IFIP 6.1.
> 
> vint
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Matthias Bärwolff <mbaer at cs.tu-berlin.de>wrote:
> 
>> Just a quick question: Is it fair to say the IEN Notes came out of INWG,
>> or were these two different games? (There were INWG Notes, too.) Put
>> differently, did the "group" that produced the IENs have a name of its own?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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>> Matthias Bärwolff
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> 

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