[ih] NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration

Craig Partridge craig at aland.bbn.com
Fri Feb 18 08:02:41 PST 2011


> 
> 
> On 2/18/2011 6:45 AM, Craig Partridge wrote:
> > If you read the original OS layering paper by Hubert Zimmerman it is
> > clearly a top-down management work plan.  Useful to compare it with
> > the ARPANET layering paper of a few years later.  The difference is Zim's
> > "here's how we'll break up the problem of developing standards" vs.
> > "here's why creating TELNET led us to a layered architecture".
> 
> 
> As I recall, documentation of the Arpanet approach to layering occurred as a 
> response to the OSI papers.  Prior to that it was de facto but not documented

That was the received wisdom I got in 1983.  But when I went digging in
1987 or so, I discovered it wasn't true.

The ARPANET layering paper was published by Davidson et al at the 5th
IEEE Data Comm Conference in 1977.  Zim's paper appeared in 1980.

Thanks!

Craig



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