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

[Dave Walden]

At 02:49 PM 5/11/2012, Dave Crocker wrote:
    4. Design of the standardized interface (and eventually plural)
>I don't know the history of the interface spec, but have the vague 
>impression that BBN did that, too.

>Assuming Dave is talking about the 1822 interface, BBN spec'd 
>that.  The original spec was for the host to be located more or less 
>next to the IMP (short electrical connection).  This was how the 
>original 4 site prototype network was envision, and we were able to 
>get that done in the nine months before the UCLA IMP  was delivered. 
>But it needed extending very shortly immediately to allow for a host 
>to be father away (up to 1,000 feet ?? -- can't remember).  The 
>latter was his called the "distant host" interface spec and was 
>still all about electricity.  That lasted a while longer before we 
>had to allow hosts to connect to IMPs when the hosts were a 
>communications circuit away from the IMP; this was called the Very 
>Distant Host spec and it was implemented shortly after September 
>1971.  Success (not just mistakes, as in the destination IMP storage 
>lockup mentioned yesterrday) drove a lot of changes.


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