[ih] IEN Notes and INWG

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Matthias_B=E4rwolff?= <mbaer at cs.tu-berlin.de>

    > 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?

Ah, you have, in that last sentence, put your finger on the problem!

The group of people working under the DARPA banner didn't, AFAIK, have a
formal name. However, the group that worked on IP was occasionally called the
"internet working group" (see, for instance, the first sentence of IEN #26).

When one remembers that the acronym used for 'Internet' at that point in time
was IN, you can see exactly where this is going... The INWG that produced the
INWG Notes was a _different_ Internet Working Group (as others have already
pointed out).

Just to maximize the confusion, at different times it was either one or two
groups! Originally there was just one TCP group, then when TCP was split into
TCP and IP, there were (for a while) separate TCP and IP groups - or, at
least, separate (temporally adjoining, I think) meetings.


Anyway, if you see contemporaneous (or later - the matching names have
confused more than one incautious historian, I have discovered) references to
an "Internet Working Group", you need to dig a little deeper and work out
exactly _which_ "Internet Working Group" is being talked about...

	Noel