[ih] What is the origin of the root account?

[Alex McKenzie]

Bob Kahn was an ARPA program manager.  Vint Cerf was a professor (I don't know what adjectives preceded "Professor") at Stanford with an ARPA contract.



Alex



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> On 4/11/2013 11:58 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> 
>> First off, please be careful to distinguish between _ARPANET_ development
>> (both hosts and switches) and _Internet_ development. Totally separate
>> efforts, mostly different people, etc, etc.

Well I'm not sure about the "different people part."  I do seem to recall that Kahn and Cerf were both ARPANET program managers before their TCP/IP work - and an awful lot of folks in this discussion were involved in both.
> 
> Please forgive me for that--the difference is indeed important. However, as a non-combatant (nor participant, if you rather) in the flow of history I think of one leading to the other and I'm not sure even now, where the tic on the time-line belongs.
Might want to start here:
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
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