[ih] IEN Notes and INWG

[John Day]

INWG originally stood for International Network Working Group, as 
opposed to the NWG which was the ARPANET group.





At 16:42 -0400 2010/03/23, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > 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