[ih] IEN Notes and INWG

[Vint Cerf]

i had forgotten that incident - amazing!!


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM, John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:

> At 10:28 -0400 2010/03/24, Vint Cerf wrote:
>
>> Yes, IEN was for ARPA-sponsored work; INWG was born in Oct 1972 at the
>> ICCC. Crocker declined to chair it because he was about to join ARPA and I
>> was off to Stanford about that time and accepted the chairmanship.
>>
>> Eventually, INWG was integrated into IFIP as IFIP WG 6.1 with the help of
>> Alex Curran (then the ceo of BNR, Inc - the Palo Alto research subsidiary of
>> Bell-Northern Research).
>>
>
> Right.  I remember when that happened.
>
>
>
>> As to funding, DARPA provided some funding to Kirstein at UCL but I think
>> a lot of his funds came from the EU and from the UK Science Research
>> Council.
>>
>> EIN had leadership from the UK National Physical Laboratory staff - Donald
>> Davies and Derek Barber. I am a little less clear on the dates of EIN start
>> - around 1975? earlier?
>>
>
> It was something like that.  Don't think it would have been earlier than
> 75, at least not much.  I can ask Derek.  We are in contact, although I
> don't know how often he checks his email.  But yea, it was operated out of
> NPL.  That is how the Swiss were involved.
>
> I don't know how reliable it is but the good old Wikipedia says it became
> operational in 1976.
>
> (You can tell your age, when you sit here trying to remember when that was,
> or where you have something that would tell you when it was.  Then you
> think, "dummy, look in the Wikipedia!")  ;-) lol.  For the younger crowd,
> that would have been the first thing they did!
>
> I think I have told this before, but my favorite scene from this period was
> at the Ontario Science Center.  We were all there for ICCC 76 (I think) and
> I remember turning a corner and finding you, Donald Davies and Alex McKenzie
> prompting some random 10 year old on how to set the levers for a mechanical
> "logic circuit" of AND, OR, and NOT gates to get balls to drop out the
> bottom.  ;-)
>
> I remember standing there enjoying the scene and thinking, "kid, if you
> only knew!"  ;-) lol  I wished I had had a camera!
>
> Take care,
> John
>
>
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