[ih] NIC, InterNIC, and Modelling Administration

[Vint Cerf]

i think there was a much earlier layering paper, lead author postel, 1972?
Spring Joint or Fall Joint Computer Conference.

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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com>wrote:

> >
> >
> > 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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