[ih] Hesitating to disagree with one of the fathers of the Internet…..

[David Elliott Bell]

nevertheless, I would point out that not everyone agreed that 

"BBN was the designer and operator of the ARPANET from the outset to its termination in 1990."  

The disagreement would be over the phrase "the designer".  

Michael Padlipsky clearly did not agree. per his book The Elements of Networking Style (& Other Essays & Animadversions of the Art of Intercomputer Networking. (Peter Salus continues to have a high opinion of this book, which includes the only reference on Wikipedia to the Arpanet Reference Model.)  

One of the chapters in that book "And They Argued All Night...."  posited that much of what happened in the early days of the Arpanet was the result of group discussion where the participants did not always themselves remember who said what and where ideas came from.

I recommend his book for some reflection of the life and times of the early days of ARPA's Network Working Group (?  phrasing right?).

David Bell

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